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Animals News tagged with scientists

Evolution of Highly Toxic Box Jellyfish Unraveled
Animals  (tags: Jellyfish, Evolution, Cells, Scientists )

Nancy
- 1 day ago - sciencedaily.com
With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long been of interest to scientists and to the public.
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Freaky Animal Experiments: How Far Should Scientists Go?
Animals  (tags: animal experiments, scientists, cruelty, human cells )

Simone
- 17 days ago - blogs.mirror.co.uk
Scientists are on the brink of creating freaky animals with human brains, faces arms and legs for medical research. They say the "science fiction" of producing animals with human cells which might even speak is just around the corner. But they want
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How the Turtle's Shell Developed
Animals  (tags: animals, Turtles, shells, wildlife, Biology, research, study, interesting, scientists )

Dee
- 139 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Science reporter, BBC News - - Scientists have revealed a spectacular insight into turtle evolution - how the unique animals get their shells. A Japanese team studied the development of turtle embryos to find out why - - -
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Breaking News From Ecuador - Discovering New Species
Animals  (tags: ecuador, animals, environment, habitat, GoodNews, humans, investigation, wildlife, wildanimals, conservation, protection, research, scientists, world, discovery, interesting, science )

PinkMindy
- 164 days ago - care2.com
Scientists are now discovering new species in Ecuador, that has important impact on humans. Please visit the photo gallery and expedition page on site.
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Animal Rights Activists Upset About Monkeys That Glow in the Dark
Animals  (tags: animals activists, animal rights, glow in dark monkeys, animal abuse, monkey testing, experiments, moral questions, scientists )

Simone
- 178 days ago - examiner.com
Earlier this week, Japanese scientists released news of genetically engineered marmoset monkeys that glow in the dark, causing concern among animal rights activists. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is questioning the morality
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1/4th of World's Atlantic Right Whales Gather Off Cape Cod
Animals  (tags: animals, GoodNews, right, whales, environment, endangered, habitat, scientists, atlantic, ocean, zooplankton )

Tom
- 242 days ago - ecoworldly.com
There are only about 325 North Atlantic right whales left in the world, and approximately 80 of them have assembled in the waters near Cape Cod. They have come together to feed on an unusually huge population of zooplankton.
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Scientists Use Sedation to Free Entangled Whale
Animals  (tags: endangered right whale, scientists, sedation, entangled in rope, freed, endangered )

Simone
- 260 days ago - thestate.com
Scientists used sedatives to free an endangered right whale entangled in rope off Florida's Atlantic Coast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it's the first time sedatives were used successfully to free an entangled whale.
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Wildflower Auto Tag Sales Pay for Butterfly Gardens and Science Projects
Animals  (tags: butterfly, wildflower, interesting, GoodNews, society, research, scientists, discovery, environment, green, conservation )

Kim
- 327 days ago - miamiherald.com
Bright red spikes of salvia flowers swayed in the winter breeze next to blue-flowering porterweed. Yellowtops, with flattish clusters of flowers, were forming a little colony, while the black-eyed
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One Hump or Two? Scientists Encourage Australians to Control Feral Camels ... By Tossing Them on the Barbie
Animals  (tags: australia, wild animals, wildlife, feral camels, scientists, grill them, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection, sadness )

Jacquelin
- 353 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
One hump or two? Australians are being urged to throw a piece of camel meat on the barbecue to reduce numbers of the animal living in the deserts of the outback. Scientists and wildlife experts say camels - which were brought to Australia in the mid-18
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Harbour Seals' Decline 'Alarming'
Animals  (tags: england, marine wildlife, harbour seals, decline, scientists, baffled, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, environment, protection )

Jacquelin
- 358 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Harbour seals, or common seals, are familiar faces along coastlines across the northern hemisphere. But they are now vanishing in the UK at an alarming rate, warn scientists from St Andrews University. Numbers have halved in the hardest hit area,
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Scientists Gather for Platypus Conference
Animals  (tags: australia, wildlife, wild animals, platypus, conference, scientists )

Jacquelin
- 369 days ago - bigpond.com
Scientists and researchers from around the world are gathering in Victor Harbor, south of Adelaide, to further explore the genetic mysteries of the platypus. The entire genetic record of the platypus was published earlier this year, sparking internatio
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EXTREMELLY URGENT FOR NEPAL MONKEYS
Animals  (tags: scientists, research, science, habitat, abused, AnimalCruelty, animals, animalcruelty, endangered, extinction, wildanimals, sadness, death, cruelty, animalwelfare, crime )

Asli
- 372 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Rhesus monkeys from Nepal will soon be sent to the United States, where they will be used and abused and killed, burned, tested, tortured. Please signed the petition as we do not have time left. They can be sent anytime now!!!!
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Scientists Join Forces to Save Australian Devil
Animals  (tags: australia, wildlife, wild animals, tasmanian devils, disease, scientists, endangered, extinction, humans, protection )

Jacquelin
- 387 days ago - news.yahoo.com
CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - With Australia's Tasmanian Devil facing extinction within the next 20 years, a group of Australian scientists have joined forces to try to save the endangered marsupial. Numbers of the carnivorous marsupial that live in the w
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Hans Ruesch Centre
Animals  (tags: scientists, research, science, research, abuse, animalcruelty, ethics )

Goddess
- 394 days ago - vivisectionfraud.com
The first anniversary of the death of Hans Ruesch has arrived, and the past year has been one of turmoil for the anti-vivisection movement. In particular, events surrounding one, once effective AV organisation, founded on the works of Hans Ruesch, and the
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Stop Nepal Sending Monkeys To Labs
Animals  (tags: abuse, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animalrights, cruelty, death, ethics, extinction, rescued, sadness, slaughter, scientists, research )

Asli
- 402 days ago - britches.org.uk
Nepal is the latest country to be exploited by American research institutes desperate to get their hands on primates for vivisection. Please sign the petition: www.petitiononline.com/anpo/petition.html
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