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Toxic amphibian defenses at higher risk of extinction
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov. 23 (ANI): A recent study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, found that amphibians which use poisonous defenses are more likely to get extinct than other species.
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Scientists discover two new species of lizards
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov.17 (ANI): Scientists have discovered two new species of lizards in the Andean highlands of Southern Chile.
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Competitive male species adapt faster to climate change
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov.14 (ANI): A new study has found that sexually selected species can adapt faster to new environments, and are less likely to go extinct.
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Male sans the Y chromosome: a step towards better understanding sex differ
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct. 3 (ANI): Taking us a step ahead to understand sex differentiation, a recent study has revealed that key sex-determining genes continue to operate in a mammalian species that lacks the Y chromosome.
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There're 4 species of giraffe, not just 1: Study
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Washington D.C. [USA], Sept. 10 (ANI): A recent study has found out that giraffes actually are not one species, but four.
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Sikkim's Daramdin village -a home to rare species of rose
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Gangtok (Sikkim) [India], Sept. 9 (ANI): Daramdin village, approximately 120 kilometres from capital town Gangtok in Sikkim, is a home to various species of rose.
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New research shows alarming growth of human population
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C., Aug. 25 (ANI): A scientist has found a new map of the ecological footprint of humankind which shows 97 percent of the places on Earth that were species-rich have now been altered.
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Turns out, early animals responsible for first mass extinction
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Washington D.C, Jul 30 (ANI): Newly-discovered fossil evidence from Namibia supports the theory that the world's first mass extinction was caused by "ecosystem engineers" - newly evolved biological organisms that altered the environment so radically it drove older species to e
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World's biodiversity drops below 'safe levels'
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Washington D.C, Jul 15 (ANI): Animal and plant species are dropping so fast that the world biodiversity loss has reached "unsafe levels," as per a new study.
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Multiple infections worsen malaria
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Washington D.C, Jul 6 (ANI): A team of researchers discovered that infections with two types of malaria parasite lead to greater health risks as one species helps the other to thrive.
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