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A rare Panamanian tree frog, a rodent from Madagascar and two lizards found only in the Philippines are among over 17,000 species threatened with extinction, a leading environmental group said Tuesday.
A gecko with leopard-like spots on its body and a fanged frog that eats birds are among 163 new species discovered last year in the Mekong River region of Southeast Asia, an environmental group said Friday.
A carnivorous pitcher plant big enough to gobble up rats has been named in honor of British TV naturalist David Attenborough.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says 29 species may warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act:
Twenty-nine species in more than 20 states — from a rare beach-dwelling plant in Yellowstone National Park to a caddis fly in Nebraska — may need federal protections to avoid extinction, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The world's smallest deer, a flying frog and catfish that stick to rocks — as well as more than 350 other species — have been discovered over the past decade in the Himalayas, making it one of the world's most biologically rich regions, an environmental group said Monday.
A pet Burmese python broke out of a glass cage last week and killed a 2-year-old girl in her Florida bedroom. The tragedy became the latest and most graphic example of a problem that has plagued the state for more than a decade: a nonnative species that is wreaking havoc in the Everglades, threatening people, the environment and native wildlife.
Governments are failing to stem a rapid decline in biodiversity that is now threatening extinction for almost half the world's coral reef species, a third of amphibians and a quarter of mammals, a leading environmental group warned Thursday.
Federal agencies again will have to consult with government wildlife experts before taking actions that could have an impact on threatened or endangered species.
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he will make a decision in the coming weeks on whether to overturn a controversial Bush administration regulation that limits the reach of the Endangered Species Act.
A brilliant green tree frog with huge black eyes, jumping spiders and a striped gecko are among more than 50 new animal species scientists have discovered in a remote, mountainous region of Papua New Guinea.
A rare Hawaii vine has been added to the endangered species list, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday. It's the second species to be classified as endangered by the Obama administration. The first was the reticulated flatwoods salamander, an amphibian native to south Georgia, north Florida and coastal South Carolina. It was put on the list last month.
The Senate has cleared the way for the Obama administration to reverse a rule saying that greenhouse gases cannot be restricted in an effort to protect polar bears from global warming.
The $410 billion House spending bill designed to keep the government afloat through the rest of the budget year could sink two Bush administration rules that eased protections for endangered species.
Twelve of the world's 17 species of penguins are seeing rapid population declines tied to overfishing, changing weather patterns and other factors, a leading expert warned Friday.
A treasure trove of potential new species has been uncovered in a modern-day Garden of Eden in Colombia, scientists announced Monday. They said the discoveries gave them hope that such biological frontiers could be saved from harm.
Lovelace, the rockhopper penguin that answers life's questions in the animated film "Happy Feet", probably would be just as stumped as the researchers who reported Friday that the population of his northern relatives has declined by 90 percent over the last 50 years.
Environmentalists sued the federal government Monday over new rules that critics say do too little to prevent cargo ships from dumping invasive species into the nation's waterways.
California is suing the Bush administration to block last-minute endangered species regulations that are intended to reduce input from federal scientists, state Attorney General Jerry Brown announced Tuesday.
A high-ranking Interior Department official tainted nearly every decision made on the protection of endangered species over five years, a new inspector general report finds, concluding she exerted improper political interference on many more rulings than previously thought.
Just six weeks before President-elect Barack Obama takes office, the Bush administration issued revised endangered species regulations Thursday to reduce the input of federal scientists and to block the law from being used to fight global warming.
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With the Bush administration on the verge of relaxing regulations protecting endangered species, Democratic leaders are looking at ways to overturn any last-minute rule changes.
A primate species that looks like a living, breathing version of the Furby electronic toy has been found alive in the forested highlands of an Indonesian island for the first time in more than 70 years, scientists announced Tuesday.
French scientists say they hatched a new gecko species from an egg plucked from its nest in a South Pacific island and carried it 12,000 miles to Paris in a box lined with Kleenex.
Wired Science News for Your Neurons Birth of New Species Witnessed by ScientistsWired Science News for Your Neurons Birth of New Species Witnessed by Scientists * By Brandon Keim Email Author * November 16, 2009 | * 3:00 pm | * Categories: Animals, Biology * darwinfinches2 finches2
Pig Cognition Studies...Parallels With HumansIn the current issue of Animal Behaviour, researchers present evidence that domestic pigs can quickly learn how mirrors work and will use their understanding of reflected images to scope out their surroundings and find their food.
Rich 'may evolve into separate species' The super-rich may evolve into a separate species entirely in the future due to enhancements in biotechnology and robotic engineering, American futurologist Paul Saffo has said.
U.K. wild seed bank hits 10 percent target - Science- msnbc.comThis should be done, all over the world.
Top scientific report: humanity is moving towards an irreversible environmental catastropheTop scientific report: catastrophic and irreversible environmental damage will be caused by crossing ''nine planetary boundaries''; 3 have already been exceeded - climate change, species loss and nitrogen cycles.
Ancient And Bizarre Fish DiscoveredAcademy scientists recently named a new species of chimaera, an ancient and bizarre group of fishes distantly related to sharks, from the coast of Southern California and Baja California, Mexico.
Google Algorithm Predicts When Species Will Go '404, Not Found'Biologists have figured out the most efficient way to destroy an ecosystem — and it's based on the Google search algorithm.
Hundreds Of New Species Discovered In Eastern HimalayasThe WWF report The Eastern Himalayas – Where Worlds Collide details discoveries made by scientists from various organizations between 1998 and 2008 in a region reaching across Bhutan and north-east India to the far north of Myanmar as well as Nepal and southern parts of Tibet A …
Rare Photographs of Now Extinct BeastsFrom panthers and pandas to rhinos and tigers, dwindling animal numbers speak of the need to step up conservation efforts – if it's not already too late. As a kind of wake-up call, we decided to take a look at seven extinct megafauna species captured on camera.
Useful Resources - Sting Pain IndexAmong connoisseurs of insect stings, it's the equivalent of Robert Parker's wine ratings. Schmidt has been stung by about 150 different species on six continents and seems to have opinions about all of them.
Very funny Oz newspaper letter re freeway-endangered species - bandicoots and golfersScroll down to "Alternative Route": "THE endangered southern bandicoots are going to be wiped out of The Pines by Peninsula Link [Melbourne, Australia] ... another species that could be endangered instead... "
Should we deliberately move species?On naked patches of land in western Canada and United States, scientists are planting trees that don't belong there. It's a bold experiment to move trees threatened by global warming into places where they may thrive amid a changing climate.
Cities Rediscover Waterways They Paved OverCities from Singapore to San Antonio have been resuscitating rivers and turning storm drains into streams. In Los Angeles, residents' groups and some elected officials are looking anew at buried or concrete-lined creeks as assets instead of inconveniences. More Articles
Watching Whales Watching UsWhales, we now know, teach and learn. They scheme. They cooperate, and they grieve. They recognize themselves and their friends. They know and fight back against their enemies.
Your modern Republican Party"Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) is among the least intelligent and most obnoxious members of Congress. Yesterday he cast the sole and only vote in the House refusing to recognize the efforts of slaves in the 18th and 19th century to to build, ironically, the U.S.
Disappearing Dolphins Clamour for AttentionMadeira, Portugal: Small whales are disappearing from the world's oceans and waterways as they fall victim to fishing gear, pollution, and habitat loss – compounded by a lack of conservation measures such as those developed for great whales, according to a new WWF report.
Kilmeade: Americans don't have "pure genes" like Swedes because "we keep marrying other species and other ethnics"An absolute must watch video. The title says it all.
Mekong river dolphin near extinct: WWFPHNOM PENH: Pollution in southeast Asia's Mekong River has pushed freshwater dolphins in Cambodia and Laos to the brink of extinction, according to an international conservation group.
Gay... Just As God Intended: Same-sex behavior seen in nearly all animals, review findsSame-sex behavior is a nearly universal phenomenon in the animal kingdom, common across species, from worms to frogs to birds, concludes a new review of existing research.
Snake Slither Style"It's analogous to the way we walk or run," Dr Hu said. "You shift your weight to the left or the right leg, but you don't drag the other leg. The snakes are only touching the ground where the friction force is going to help them move." More Articles
Cabo San Lucas mystery catch piques the interest of scientists Tracy Ehrenberg, general manager of Pisces Sportfishing in Cabo San Lucas says the mysterious-looking fish caught off the Mexican coast May 19 aboard Minerva IV looks like "a seal, crossed with a baby marlin, that swallowed a chicken ... it has feet!"
Ban on Wild Tiger Sales 'a Complete Failure'? John Stossel Says Killing Endangered Species Would Protect ThemTigers may be going extinct. There were once 100,000 of the grand animals, but today just a few thousand survive. How do we save them and other endangered species? Well, here's an idea: Let's eat them!
Indonesian 'hobbit' confirmed to be a new species - TelegraphHalf-size humans whose remains were found on the remote Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 have been confirmed to be a new species, and not modern pygmies whose brains had shrivelled with disease.
PHOTOS: Over 200 New Amphibians Found in MadagascarHighlighting a "vast underestimation" of Madagascar's natural riches, up to 221 new species of amphibians have been found on the island country, including the frog Boophis ulftunni,. The find nearly doubles the number of known amphibians in Madagascar.
Pest-control beetle turning into pest? Beetle spreads far beyond release area, works in getting rid of Tamarisk invasive, but without a program to restore native vegetation, river habitat is being destroyed...
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