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World's first shark sanctuary in Pacific
9-26-2009 |
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The Pacific nation of Palau has set up the world's first shark sanctuary to help protect species from extinction. The sa...
11-year-old boy finds pink grasshopper
9-13-2009 | 15
An 11-year-old boy has found a rare pink grasshopper in a nature reserve in England. The grasshopper is thought to be a ...
Lost world found in Papua New Guinea
9-8-2009 | 8
A team of scientists has discovered over 40 unidentified species in a lost world contained inside a kilometre deep crate...
Mouse set to be 'evolution icon'
8-29-2009 | 4
The tiny deer mouse is set to become an icon of biology in that it provides a perfect example of natural selection in ac...
Giant 'meat-eating' plant found
8-13-2009 | 16
Botanists have discovered a new species of giant carnivorous plant in the Philippines. The plant is so large that it is ...
Bipedal humans descended from trees
8-12-2009 | 7
Examinations of bones from several primate species have challenged the idea that modern humans evolved from knuckle-walk...
New creatures in an age of extinctions
7-29-2009 | 2
In an age when entire species are continuing to disappear from Earth's natural habitats on a regular basis there is stil...
Almost extinct tortoise mates aged 90
7-23-2009 | 7
One of the last remaining Galapagos giant tortoises left in the world has delighted conservationalists when a number of ...
New dinosaurs found in Australia
7-5-2009 | 5
Palaeontologists have discovered three new species of dinosaur in Queensland Australia, one of them a predator nicknamed...
One third of shark species at risk
6-30-2009 | 5
Conservationalists have revealed that one third of the world's shark species are under risk of extinction due to overfis...
Extinct animals could be brought back to life
6-17-2009 | 45
While the idea of bringing extinct species back to life has so far been the subject only of science fiction, thanks to a...
Human-faced missing link found in Spain ?
6-17-2009 | 16
An ancient fossil species over 11.9 million years old has been discovered in Spain. The species has an unusually flat an...
Microbe wakes up after 120,000 years
6-16-2009 | 14
Microbes locked within the ice in Greenland for 120,000 years have awoken, the new species of bacteria was found 2 miles...
Tasmanian devils now endangered
5-22-2009 | 6
Australia's Tasmanian devil could be going the way of the Thylacine as the status of the species has been changed from v...
'Hobbit' species still remains a mystery
5-4-2009 | 8
Even six years on, the discovery of a strange new prehistoric species of small human nicknamed 'hobbits' continues to my...
Mysterious creatures of New Zealand
4-27-2009 | 1
New Zealand is believed by some cryptozoologists to be home to all manner of undiscovered and extinct creatures, from a ...
Why do we cry ?
4-12-2009 | 20
Why do you humans cry ? A Neuroscientist at the University of Maryland believes that the ability for humans to cry is an...
Do we share DNA roots with alien life ?
4-10-2009 | 25
Patterns found in the formation of amino acids in meteorites and hydrothermal vents indicate that the building blocks of...
Did wings evolve to attract a mate ?
4-8-2009 | 13
The evolution of wings and the ability to fly could have been a way for early dinosaurs to impress the opposite sex, alm...
Woman saps cannibal frog in the act
3-27-2009 | 16
A Bushland Beach resident sparked intrigue after taking a photograph of a green-striped frog eating a green tree frog of...
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