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A female mountain gorilla sits in vegetation in the Bwindi Impenetrable For… The population of mountain gorillas in their main central African habitat has increased by a quarter in seven years, regional authorities said Tuesday. Most of the world’s mountain gorillas are found in the Virunga massif, which includes three contiguous national parks in Rwanda, [...]
The Philippine carabao, the country’s national animal, though not endemic, is likely to have descended from swamp buffaloes in China, a study has shown. An article published in the Biolife News Service said studies conducted by a team of geneticists from the Philippine Carabao Centre (PCC) had traced the carabao’s genetic lineage to buffaloes in [...]
After keeping the Forests Department on tenterhooks for nearly 72 hours, an elephant which strayed out of its habitat in the Thadagam Reserve Forest in Coimbatore district, gave in after getting two shots of a tranquiliser on Saturday evening. But, by then, the 26-year-old tusker had walked almost 55 km from the reserve forest and [...]
New research highlighting coastal locations where coral can better withstand rising sea temperatures, a leading cause of stress to coral reefs, may guide efforts to conserve the largest living structures on Earth. The findings hold promise for an estimated 100 million people living along the coasts of tropical developing countries whose livelihoods and welfare depend [...]
The demise of the dinosaurs created the ecological opportunity for the diminutive prehistoric mammals of the time to become the largest creatures on Earth today, scientists have demonstrated conclusively for the first time. A worldwide study of fossilised mammals has demonstrated beyond any doubt that it was the extinction of the dinosaur 65 million years [...]
Bleak scientific findings that over-fishing will empty the oceans of big fish and leave just small creatures such as jellyfish or plankton seem based on flawed data, a study said on Wednesday. An international team of scientists concluded that a far wider diversity of creatures was likely to survive — from predators such as sharks [...]
The Sun’s rays can “burn” whales’ skin, just like they can damage human skin, according to a team of researchers. The scientists studied more than 150 whales in the Gulf of California. By taking photographs and skin samples, the US and Mexico-based team found the whales had blisters that were caused by sun damage. The [...]