China May Use Wolves To Rein In No-Longer-So-Endangered Blue Sheep
Beijing, China (AFP) Feb 13, 2006
China's effort to protect its wild blue sheep has been so successful that it now plans to employ wolves to preempt a looming population explosion, state media said Monday.
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Science Slowly Explaining Evolution Detail
Chicago IL (UPI) Feb 13, 2006
Scientists say they are starting to understand the details of evolution and, in doing so, they're solving the riddles on which intelligent design is based.
Dozens Of New Species In 'Lost World' Of West New Guinea
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 08, 2006
An expedition to one of Asia's most isolated jungles - in the mist-shrouded Foja Mountains of western New Guinea - discovered a virtual "Lost World" of new species, giant flowers, and rare wildlife that was unafraid of humans.
Introduced Predators Throw A Wrench In The Food Web
Missoula, MT (SPX) Feb 08, 2006
In an extensive study, researchers from the University of Montana, University of California - Santa Cruz, and the University of California - Davis have shown that a top predator strongly affected plants and animals at the bottom of an island food web by eating organisms that transport nutrients between ecosystems. "An introduced predator alters Aleutian island plant communities by thwarting nutrient subsidies," is published in the February issue of Ecological Monographs.
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Scientists Sequence Complete Genome Of Woolly Mammoth
Worcester MA (SPX) Feb 08, 2006
Some 10,000 years after the last of their kind wandered the North American and Eurasian wilderness, woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) remain a fascinating subject of study for scientists, with implications for understanding the evolutionary origins of present day mammals.
Antarctic Krill Provide Carbon Sink In Southern Ocean
Cambridge UK (SPX) Feb 07, 2006
New research on Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), a shrimp-like animal at the heart of the Southern Ocean food chain, reveals behaviour that shows that they absorb and transfer more carbon from the Earth's surface than was previously understood. The results are published this week in the journal Current Biology.
Asian Elephant Nations Meet To Discuss Species' Survival
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Jan 29, 2006
Thirteen Asian countries with wild elephants met as a group in Malaysia for the first time last week to discuss the survival of the species as expanding human populations encroach on its habitat.
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Identifying Whale Sharks Using Astronomical Star Pattern Recognition Program
Maynard, MA (SPX) Feb 06, 2006
Researchers plan to employ a new computer algorithm normally used by astronomers to recognize star patterns to identify individual whale sharks in an effort to protect them.
Clay Major Contributor To Oxygen That Enabled Early Animal Life
Riverside CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2006
A UC Riverside-led study has found that clay made animal life possible on Earth. A sudden increase in oxygen in the Earth's recent geological history, widely considered necessary for the expansion of animal life, occurred just as the rate of clay formation on the Earth's surface also increased, the researchers report.
Hot-Spring Bacteria Flip A Metabolic Switch
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 02, 2006
Scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology have found that photosynthetic bacteria living in scalding Yellowstone hot springs have two radically different metabolic identities.
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Secrets Of The Sea Yield Stronger Artificial Bone
Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2006
The next generation of artificial bone may rely on a few secrets from the sea. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy�s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have harnessed the way seawater freezes to develop a porous, scaffolding-like material that is four times stronger than material currently used in synthetic bone.
Wildlife Experts Meet In India To Save Vultures From Extinction
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 31, 2006
Indian government officials and wildlife experts from across South Asia met here Tuesday to discuss a ban on the farm drug diclofenac, which has driven vultures in the region to the brink of extinction.
Life Leaves Subtle Signature In The Lay Of The Land, Say Berkeley Researchers
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2006
One of the paradoxes of recent explorations of the Martian surface is that the more we see of the planet, the more it looks like Earth, despite a very big difference: Complex life forms have existed for billions of years on Earth, while Mars never saw life bigger than a microbe, if that.
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