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Fungal disease is wiping out bat species in North America
Numbers of the Northern myotis, little brown bat and tri-coloured bat have been decimated by the spread of the fungal pathogen, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, which causes white-nose syndrome in bats....
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New frog species discovered…. in NYC
With the use of molecular and technology associated methods becoming more readily available, it is no surprise that they are redefining what we know about current species. Researchers at Rutgers...
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Classification of a new bat species in Bolivia
The genus Myotis has over 100 currently recognised species distributed across the globe. Recent work by Dr. Ricardo Moratelli and Dr. Don Wilson regarding the taxonomy and variation within this genus...
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Truffles produce a cannabis like high to aid spore dispersal
Pigs and dogs who are trained to hunt for truffles exhibit borderline frantic behaviour when searching for these subterranean delicacies. Italian researchers who were investigating the properties of...
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Blue whales: the ‘true’ and ‘pygmy’ varieties are both found in Chilean waters
The subspecific taxonomy of the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is yet to be fully understood. The suggestion that there was more than one subspecies of blue whale was originally put forward as...
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Tropical snail drugs fish (and then devours them)
The geographic cone snail (Conus geographus), with a wide distribution including the Indo-Pacific, Africa and the Red Sea, is quite obviously not going to snag prey through its speed and agility....
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70,000 years of isolation for the humpback whales of the Arabian Sea
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are generally migratory creatures, with the longest known migration of any mammal – 9000 km between their feeding grounds within the polar regions and their...
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Penguins have lost 3 of the basic senses of taste
There are considered to be just 5 different tastes which many vertebrates can recognise, these being sweet, salty, bitter, sour and umami (or ‘meaty’). In humans, each taste bud contains between 50 and...
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Anglo-Saxon text holds age old remedy to combat MRSA
The discovery of antibiotics is arguably the most important determiner in human fate to date. With the initial boom, hope was formed that we would be able to cure all manner of illnesses. However the...
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Bats form social groups and reject individuals of the same species
Despite bats regularly changing their roosts, it has been shown that bats will co-ordinate their movements to their friends’ movements. While a population will choose to live in one particular...
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The latest addition to the human family tree – Homo naledi
Africa is proving that it still holds many secrets. Two years ago, amateur cavers stumbled across bones within a cave system called the ‘Rising Star’ in South Africa, located within the Cradle of...
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