Study Finds 25 Percent of World’s Mammals at Risk of Extinction
Region: United StatesThe International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) unveiled a dark new study today, detailing the potential permanent demise of 1,141 of the 5,487 mammals on earth. If the findings in the IUCN Red List of Th... more
Views: 1656Swarms of Ants Bedevil Houston
Region: Texas
A few years ago, some creatures about the size of a grain of rice, caught a ride on a cargo ship docked in one of the Caribbean ports and disembarked, unnoticed, at the port of Houston, Texas. Their adopted home was so hos... more
Views: 2000Orchids Use Wasps for One Night Stands
Region: Australia
"Male pollinators can prefer orchids to real females, prematurely end a copulation with a real female to visit an orchid, or be unable to find real female mates among false orchid signals. Unquestionably, producing sperm, ... more
Views: 2176How Malaria Was Spread in South America?
Region: CaliforniaScientists have long debated how and where it originated malaria infection caused by a parasite transmitted by the bite of a mosquito. Now an international team of scientists seems to have found the answer. Genetic a... more
Views: 1150Why Some People Attract Mosquitoes More?
Region: AustraliaIn our skin billion live bacteria, organized in various communities and families. And it is this organization that determines how humans are attractive to mosquitoes. According to new research in the Netherlands, who ha... more
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