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Fish oil 'may lower diabetes risk'

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:10:37 +0100

Fish oil capsules might help in the fight against diabetes, according to new research.

Australia set to cull 10,000 wild horses

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:21:51 +0100

A controversial cull of up to 10,000 wild horses in Australia's harsh Outback reportedly began Wednesday in a bid to control the feral animals which officials say are destroying the land.

Australian zoo says white rhino birth 'sign of hope'

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:45:01 +0100

An Australian zoo said Tuesday the birth of a southern white rhinoceros was a "sign of hope" for the species given the escalation of poaching in Africa.

Apes and monkeys go way back: study

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:52:39 +0100

Newly unearthed ape and monkey fossils prove that the cousin species lived side-by-side in Africa as long as 25 million years ago, a study said Wednesday.

EU begins difficult talks on fishery reforms

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:30:54 +0100

EU fisheries ministers began difficult talks Monday on reforms to the bloc's under-pressure fishing regime, with plans to stop the dumping of unwanted fish a key sticking point.

Warming to hit half of plants, a third of animals

Mon, 13 May 2013 07:25:42 +0100

More than half of common species of plants and a third of animal species are likely to see their living space halved by 2080 on current trends of carbon emissions, according to a climate study.

British landfill transformed into nature reserve

Sun, 12 May 2013 03:19:31 +0100

A sprawling landfill site containing 50 years of rubbish from six London boroughs has been transformed into a 120-acre nature reserve for rare birds, bees and reptiles.

US returns more Mongolian dinosaur bones

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:57:38 +0100

Mongolia may need to rustle up some more glass cases for its first dinosaur museum after US authorities announced Friday they will hand back a large new collection of stolen fossils.

Bats battle boosts hearing of moth

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:45:35 +0100

An arms race between moth and bat has produced an insect with the most extreme hearing of any animal.

Waste guzzling fly factory wins African innovation prize

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:36:48 +0100

A fly factory that transforms blood, guts, manure and discarded food into animal feed has walked away with a $100,000 UN-backed innovation prize.

Thick-skulled fossil cuts dino theory down to size

Tue, 07 May 2013 18:52:22 +0100

The discovery of a new thick-skulled dinosaur the size of a large dog may challenge our image of a pre-historic Earth dominated by supersized lizards, a study said Tuesday.

Bonehead dinosaur offers life clue

Tue, 07 May 2013 18:05:16 +0100

A head-butting dinosaur with a skull like a conker is helping scientists knock together a better picture of life 85 million years ago.

Easier to import giraffes under new EU rules

Tue, 07 May 2013 13:43:18 +0100

New EU rules agreed Tuesday make it easier to import elephants, giraffes, rhinos and all other such non-domestic hoofed animals.

Climate shift killed Australia's giant beasts: study

Tue, 07 May 2013 08:13:16 +0100

Gigantic animals which once roamed Australia were mostly extinct by the time humans arrived, according to a new study Tuesday which suggests climate change played the key role in their demise.

US gives dinosaur skeleton back to Mongolia

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:41:59 +0100

The United States on Monday gave back to Mongolia the remains of a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus skeleton stolen from the Gobi desert and sold at auction in New York.

Rising sea levels threaten migratory birds: study

Mon, 06 May 2013 07:47:05 +0100

Millions of birds that stop at coastal wetlands during annual migrations could die as rising sea levels and land reclamation wipe out their feeding grounds, researchers warned Monday.

Sumatran orangutans' rainforest home faces new threat

Sun, 05 May 2013 05:48:19 +0100

A baby Sumatran orangutan swings playfully on a branch at an Indonesian rescue centre, a far cry from the terror he endured when his pristine rainforest home was razed to the ground.

Iceland to resume disputed fin whale hunt in June

Sat, 04 May 2013 16:26:45 +0100

Iceland plans to resume its disputed commercial fin whale hunt in June with a quota of at least 154 whales, the head of the only company that catches the giant mammals said Saturday.

Lemurs' long-buried secrets revealed

Thu, 02 May 2013 19:24:12 +0100

Scientists curious about the winter time vanishing act of a Madagascar dwarf lemur type were astonished to find the animals burrowed deep into the soil, curled up for a months-long sleep.

Chile's Humboldt penguins under threat of extinction

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:46:48 +0100

Several dozen Humboldt penguins sun themselves along the coast of an islet in central Chile where the majestic birds coming here to nest once numbered in the thousands.

Rare snake bite death in Australia

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:30:29 +0100

A hockey player has died in Australia after being bitten by a snake that he picked up -- a rare fatality despite the country being home to the planet's 10 deadliest species.

Lynx once roamed Devon countryside

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:12:19 +0100

A big cat prowled the Devon countryside more than a century ago, rediscovered remains from a museum's vaults have shown.

Cheetahs in race to survive

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:53:54 +0100

The cheetah, the world's fastest land animal, survived mass extinction during the last ice age 10,000 years ago.

Fish feat: Reef predator uses sign language to hunt

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:59:33 +0100

The roving coralgrouper, a predator fish of the tropical reef, uses sign language to advise fellow hunters of hiding prey, according to a study published on Tuesday.

Protected pangolins seized from Philippine boat

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:50:21 +0100

Philippine authorities have seized 23 protected scaly anteaters found hidden in a cargo boat, in the second case of suspected trafficking of the species in a month, officials said.

Russia puts mice, newts in space for a month

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:54:47 +0100

A Russian rocket carrying a capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other small animals blasted off Friday on a month-long orbital mission that should pave the way for manned flights to Mars.

'Small bandit' dinosaur discovered

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:31:28 +0100

A new species of dinosaur whose translated name means "lonely small bandit" has been discovered in Madagascar.

Emaciated Sumatran tiger on brink of death

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:47:18 +0100

A critically endangered Sumatran tiger at a notorious Indonesian zoo where hundreds of animals have died in recent years is emaciated and on the brink of death, an official said on Wednesday.

Fish out of water: coelacanth helps evolutionary probe

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:09:54 +0100

Biologists on Wednesday said they had unravelled the DNA of the coelacanth, a "living fossil" fish whose ancient lineage can shed light on how life in the sea crept onto land hundreds of millions of years ago.

Endangered Sumatran elephant born in captivity

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:08:03 +0100

A baby Sumatran elephant peeps out timidly from between the legs of its mother at an Indonesian zoo, where her birth has given a boost to the critically endangered animal.

England to ban circuses from using wild animals

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:50:13 +0100

Travelling circuses in England will be banned from using wild animals from December 2015, the government announced on Tuesday, after a long campaign to end the practice.

Bulgaria, Romania create protected wetlands for birds

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:06:12 +0100

Bulgaria and Romania on Tuesday signed a deal to set up three wetland areas along their joint 470-kilometre (290-mile) Danube border, protecting pelicans, herons, pygmy cormorants and other birds, the environment ministry here said.

Dinosaur embryos 'moved inside egg'

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:12:10 +0100

Dinosaurs grew in the egg in a similar fashion to modern birds, a study has suggested.

Scale of bird species loss revealed

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:21:02 +0000

More than 1,000 species of birds suffered the same fate as the dodo when humans first colonised the tropical Pacific islands, research has shown.

Daisy, five, discovers dinosaur

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:34:46 +0000

A species of prehistoric flying reptile dating from 115 million years ago has been discovered by a girl who was only five at the time.

New Zealand dolphin faces extinction, group warns

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:15:04 +0000

Scientists have urged New Zealand to take immediate action to protect the critically endangered Maui's dolphin, amid warnings the marine mammal could become extinct by 2030.

Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Martian 'Flower' and Snake-Like Rock

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:30:17 +0000

New photos of Mars from NASA's Curiosity rover have sparked a buzz of discussion over an odd formation that some have dubbed a "flower" embedded in a Martian rock. The rover has also found a snake-like rock formation winding across the Red Planet's surface.

Newly-discovered dinosaur "resembled flightless bird"

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:52:03 +0100

Remains of a newly-discovered species of dinosaur called the Bonapartenykus ultimus dinosaur found

Wildlife thriving after Chernobyl’s nuclear disaster – study

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:25:24 +0100

Discovery that birds have not been affected by Chernobyl fallout boosts hopes that Fukushima wildlife may emerge unscathed

Monster fleas sucked the blood of Jurassic dinosaurs

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:01:12 +0000

It seems that dinosaurs weren’t the only scary monsters of the Jurassic period as newly-discovered fossils reveal giant blood-sucking fleas afflicted the prehistoric world.