News Stories relating to "animals"

Long-term declines of elephants, giraffes and other animals in Kenya are occurring at the same rates inside the country's national parks as outside of these protected areas.

Biologist David Western says, "This is the first time we've taken a good look at a national park system in one country, relative to all of the wildlife populations...

SARS and bird flu aren't the only diseases that humans can catch from animals. Between 2,000 and 2,005, around 50 million people caught diseases from animals such as dogs, cattle, chickens and mosquitoes, and almost 80,000 of them died. Sometimes animals pass diseases between species. And it works both ways: some HUMAN diseases are killing...

Long ago, our ancestors may have become human to get away from snakes. They may have left the water in order get away from poisonous fish! There are actually more poisonous fish than poisonous snakes. Biologists have now identified 1,200 species of venomous fish (there are also over 1,500 types of poisonous lizards).

Robert Roy Britt...

We recently put up a series of stories on the science behind the remake of the film King Kong. It turns out that there is a limit to how large?and thus how dangerous?mammals can become.

Seth Shostak writes in space.com that huge, unknown creatures are still being discovered here on Earth. As recently as 2004, Japanese researchers...

If a Cornell University researcher has his way, cheetahs, lions, elephants, camels and other large wild animals may soon roam parts of North America. But wait, you may say, cheetahs, lions and elephants aren't native to the US! But their ancient ANCESTORS were, so there's no reason these animals can't live here again.

"If we only have 10...

Have you ever wondered why butterflies are calledBUTTERflies? They should be called "flutter-bys" instead,because of their seemingly random flight patterns. In LewisCarroll's "Alice in Wonderland," illustrator John Tennieldrew illustrations of sticks of butter with wings on them.Now ornithologists have discovered that butterflies do notflutter...

We've written recently about animals that are missing orturning up in the wrong places due to global warming and thepole shift. A recent "bug splat" test in the U.K. found manyfewer insects that expected. And all over the world,scientists are finding hyperactive fish, stupid frogs,fearless mice and seagulls that fall over?all due topollution....

A giant 62-mile-long colony of ants from Argentina hasinvaded Melbourne, Australia. In their native country, theyform smaller groups, but in Australia, they've merged intoone huge super colony, killing off native insects.

Biologist Elissa Suhr says, "In Argentina, their nativehomeland, ant colonies?are genetically diverse and...