Endangered Species Found in Multiple Conservation Efforts
After an 87-year absence the Borneo rainbow toad has been discovered or rather rediscovered. A group of 126 researchers have scoured the rainforests and mountains of 21 countries on 5 continents in...
View ArticleDolphins Develop a New Sense
We all know that dolphins are smart. And we know they have more senses than people, adding echolocation to the senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. Now scientists have tested and confirmed...
View ArticleYale Undergrads Find Plastic-Eating Fungus
The growing garbage problem may have a new solution–fungus that eats plastic. For years mounting mounds of plastic have been choking landfills and polluting the ocean. Now an annual undergraduate trip...
View ArticleClimate Change Pushes Species Up and North
A meta-study in the journal Science says – changing global temperatures are pushing species towards the poles and higher altitudes. A meta study is a study that rounds up all the other related studies...
View ArticleMillions of Species Yet to be Discovered
According to a new study it could take 1,200 years, 300,000 researchers and $364 billion to identify and catalog all the species on Earth. New research in the online journal PLoS Biology, a...
View ArticleNature’s Deadliest Animal Wrangler
It’s not your average Top 10 list. In fact there are a lot more killer creatures on adventurer Steve Backshall’s World’s 60 Deadliest Animals list. And he is traveling the world in search of the...
View ArticleLost Penguin Loses Signal
A three-year-old Emperor penguin nicknamed Happy Feet washed onto a New Zealand beach in June after taking a wrong turn and heading away from his home in Antarctica. After a public rehabilitation, the...
View ArticleSnail Invasion Poses Health Risks
It may be the fastest invasion of a slow-moving creature but people in Miami-Dade County are taking care not to mess with the new snail in town. The east African land snail is making a home in south...
View ArticleIg Nobel Prizes Take a Lighter Look at Science
Pee pressure, beer bottle-humping beetles and a wasabi-flavored fire alarm were among the top prizes awarded at Harvard University’s 21st Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, a more laid back version of...
View ArticleDead Sea Teems with Tiny Life
It turns out the Dead Sea isn’t so dead after all. Microscopic life is thriving in the super salty environment, according to new findings by a German and Israeli team of scientists. They found new...
View ArticleLargest Whale Fossile Bed Unearthed in Chile
For seven million years at least 80 ancient whale skeletons have been preserved in the high desert of Chile. Now a road project threatens the ancient burial ground. But developers of the new highway...
View ArticleArctic Region Warms into New Climate State
In 2006, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began monitoring the Arctic region, creating an annual report card to mark rapid change occurring there. Five years in and the news isn’t...
View ArticleChristmas Count Turns Birders into Citizen Scientists
If it’s December it’s time to count the birds. For 112 years the National Audubon Society has been documenting the avian world with its annual Christmas Bird Count. The oldest citizen science (and...
View ArticleSharks Begin Climate Adaptation Strategy
Recently scientists in Australia discovered that two species of sharks are interbreeding. The common black-tip shark and the Australian black-tip shark have started producing hybrid sharks. Marine...
View ArticleParasitic Fly Could Explain Bee Disappearance
In 2006 bees began disappearing. Entomologists have never been exactly able to pinpoint the cause of syndrome, which they now call colony collapse disorder. It occurs when the worker bees abandon the...
View ArticleTiniest Vertebrate Hops into the Limelight
Every few years biologists struggling to understand the evolutionary constraints placed on the largest and smallest of animals happen upon — usually by accident– a new contender. But that little...
View ArticleStrong Mussels Land Student in Intel Science Finals
Samantha Garvey wants to be a marine biologist and the science-focused 17 year old is now one of 61 finalists from Long Island in the Intel Science & Engineering Fair for her pioneering work with...
View ArticleProject Runway: Spider Edition
Golden orbweaver spiders from Madagascar secrete the only spider silk that is gold in color, not white. And now a five-year project to create a cape is finished and on display at the Victoria &...
View ArticleSnakes on a Glade
Florida has been wrestling with its python problem for years. Thanks to the tropical temps in south Florida the Everglades National Park has become a dumping ground for unwanted reptiles, particularly...
View ArticlePurple Squirrel Sparks Science Mystery
Percy and Connie Emert think it’s just nuts that they became famous overnight by just photographing a squirrel in their backyard. The Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania couple can’t believe that the squirrel...
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