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Good news bad news for Arizona's extinct prairie dogs: do the math!
We only need to look at Arizona, a state where black-tailed prairie dogs have not been seen for over 50 years--until a reinstatement program was launched last year—to know that extinction is a very real possibility for prairie dogs. They disappeared...
Tags: Black-tailed prairie dogs, ESA, Arizona Fish and Game, Biologists, Wildlife conservation, Obama, Bush, Gale Norton, Ken Salazar, Nuts the squirrel, extinct
'Death Stench' Is A Universal Ancient Warning Signal, Biologists Discover
The smell of recent death or injury that repels living relatives of insects has been identified as a truly ancient signal that functions to avoid disease or predators, biologists have discovered. David Rollo, professor of biology at McMaster University,...
Tags: Death Stench, Universal, Ancient, Warning, Signal, Biologists, Discovery, Evolution
Discovering a lost world
An expedition by a team of biologists from Oxford University, the London Zoo and the Smithsonian Institute in the rain forests of Papua New Guinea has unearthed new breeds of animal life. In the volcanic crater of Bosavi that extends for nearly three...
Tags: expedition, biologists, animal life, 'Lost land of the volcano’, bbc
White-nose syndrome: disease that could push many bat species to extinction
Bats have been dying by the millions over the past two years from a mysterious fungus scientists are calling white-nose syndrome, due to the whitish markings the disease causes on the bat’s face and wings. Bats are ecologically critical in the battle...
Tags: White-nose syndrome, bat species, US Fish and Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, bees, biologists, fungus
Violent undersea volcano spares life of only some 'special' sea critters!
The volcano called NW Rota-1 is one unique volcano near the island of Guam that erupts so frequently that it has built a new cone which is 131ft high and 984ft wide in a period of just 3 years. In the words of Bill Chadwick, a volcanogist...
Tags: volcano, undersea volcano, allnews, sea critters, squid, shrimp, fish, ocean, acidification, marine life, biologists, adaptation
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