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Indistinct figures pad through the windowless corridors of Northwestern University’s animal facilities in Chicago. Only their eyes peer out from the layers of surgical masks, gloves, shoe covers, head covers and long, wide laboratory coats as the scientists here care for the animals they use for research.
Government funded facilities, such as Northwestern, [...]
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On Thursday, November 6, 2008, Dr. Kirt Rusenko, Marine Conservationist, and staff from Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton will release two juvenile loggerhead sea turtles raised in captivity into the Indian River Lagoon near Sebastian Inlet.
The loggerheads, dubbed Milton and FeeBee, hatched on Boca Raton’s beaches in July 2002 and were [...]
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A cat shot in the head with a crossbow arrow at a trailer park on Friday survived and returned home with only minor injuries. The arrow was removed from Stewie’s head after the cat was brought to the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine.
Molly Fee, an intern at the school, said the arrow narrowly missed [...]
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The world’s rarest big cat is alive and well. At least one of them, that is, according to researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) who captured and released a female Far Eastern leopard in Russia last week.
The capture was made in Primorsky Krai along the Russian-Chinese border by a team of scientists from WCS [...]
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The farther an ant lives from the coast, the more it prefers salt to sweet.
Ants prefer salty snacks to sugary ones, at least in inland areas that tend to be salt-poor, according to a new study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Ecologists from the University [...]
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Despite being protected longer than anywhere else on Earth, Yellowstone’s amphibians are declining fast. The culprit, say researchers: climate change.
In 1992 and 1993, researchers in Elizabeth Hadly’s group at Stanford University surveyed amphibians dwelling in ponds left behind by glaciers in northern Yellowstone National Park. Over the last three summers, Hadly’s graduate student [...]
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The economy, the election, and myriad other problems are really stressing out … pets.
When humans get stressed, often their pets take on that stress, too.
“Dogs and cats are very good at picking up stress in people, as are birds,” said James Morrisey, a veterinarian at the College of [...]
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The same cells electric eels use to shock predators and prey can be engineered to power implanted biomedical devices, say researchers from Yale University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
“We now understand how the natural electric eel cells work,” said David LaVan of NIST. “Now we can [...]
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Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators are seeking the public’s help in surveying for once-common ladybug species that are now hard to find.
Researchers with ARS, Cornell University at Ithaca, N.Y., and South Dakota State University (SDSU) in Brookings want people to photograph every ladybug possible, and to send the photos to Cornell so researchers [...]
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DNA in the bones of Adelie penguins that survived the last ice age are helping to shed light on how other animals will cope with climate change, say researchers.
Evolutionary biologist Professor David Lambert of Griffith University in Brisbane and colleagues report their analysis of Adelie penguin DNA dating back to [...]
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