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As his face filled with angry bees, Albert Watson decided to keep climbing. The 69-year-old was about halfway up the rocky slope of Lone Mountain Friday afternoon when he was attacked by the swarm. He figured some stings wouldn’t kill him, but a fall down the mountain might, so he continued to march toward the [...]
It should be easy to guess from the fact that one wing is pink and the other blue – but this is an ultra-rare ‘ladyboy’ butterfly, which is born half male and half female. The amazing insect, known as a gynandromorph, stunned scientists after it emerged from its chrysalis with a pink wing on its [...]
Expecting wild animals to thrive in increasingly fragmented habitats alongside a growing human population may be unrealistic, say scientists. But exactly how people and large mammals like chimpanzees should live together long-term in shared landscapes remains largely unresolved. UK researchers surveyed 134 people in 12 villages across the Hoima District of Uganda to understand how [...]
An Indian origin researcher has hinted that extracts from neem tree, profuse in tropical and subtropical areas, may thwart the virus from multiplying. Sonia Arora, an assistant professor at Kean University in New Jersey, is delving into understanding the curative properties of the neem tree in fighting the virus that causes AIDS. Her preliminary results [...]
Alarming sea animal deaths on India`s west coast Mumbai/Ratnagiri: Two giant Baleen humpback whale sharks washed up dead on the Mumbai and Thane beaches in separate incidents last week. This was preceded by a Bryde’s whale shark getting washed ashore at a beach in Ratnagiri, around 250 km south of Mumbai. In the past couple [...]
A group of activists, zoo officials, lawmakers and scientists has proposed increasing the number of polar bears in U.S. zoos, to help maintain the species’ genetic diversity if the wild population plummets. Polar bears are ideally suited to life in the Arctic: Their hair is without pigment, blending in with the snow; their heavy, strongly [...]
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