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Science & Tech News tagged with animals

Animals in Prison. The Innocent Don't Know Why They Are Behind Bars.
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, nature, world, wildlife, environment )

Nena
- 4 days ago - fizzyenergy.com
Animals in prison. The innocent don't know why they are behind bars.
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Scientists Expand Program to 'Bar-Code' DNA of World's Plants, Animals
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, technology, research, DNA, plants, animals, programmes )

Simone
- 13 days ago - google.com
It sounds like a futuristic fantasy, but scientists are quietly creating a global databank of DNA bar codes for the world's flora and fauna that could be used to identify illicit goods at borders and track the spread of disease. From tiny micro-
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Good Dog, Smart Dog
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, investigation, animals, dogs, canine, intelligence, health, humans, illness, seizure. alert, epilepsy, anxiety, depression, phobias, interesting, research, prevention, protection )

Tom
- 19 days ago - nytimes.com
The ability of dogs to tune in to needs of psychiatric patients, turn on lights for trauma victims afraid of the dark, remind owners to take medication and interrupt suicide attempts and self-mutilation, has lately attracted the attention of researchers.
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Globalization: Diseases Spreading From Humans To Animals, Study Finds
Science & Tech  (tags: bacteria, humans, transmitted diseases, animals, scientists, investigation, study, discovery )

Simone
- 23 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Globalisation and industrialisation are causing diseases to spread from humans to animals, a study has shown.
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Blue Whale Beached -- Flipper to Be Amputated?
Science & Tech  (tags: whales, research, animals, study, ships )

Marty
- 26 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
The apparent victim of a ship collision, a dead 70-foot (20-meter) blue whale (pictured) washed ashore in a forbidding northern California cove this week.
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Five of the Best Animal Fathers
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, wildlife, interesting )

Nena
- 30 days ago - crystalkiss.com
Some animal fathers have taken other paths-shaped by such factors as severe living conditions that require effort from both parents for the young to survive.
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Get Genetically Engineered Vaccines Out of Organic! -Take Action!!!
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, science, research, medicine, investigati, animals, GeneticEngineering )

Tierney
- 36 days ago - capwiz.com
Scientists are warning, "Genetically engineered vaccines possess significant unpredictability and a number of inherent harmful potential hazards."
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Animals Survived Apocalypse By Burrowing
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, studies, animals, survival, apocalypse, burrowing, archaeology, discovery, interesting, research )

Simone
- 45 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
When the going gets tough, putting your head in the sand isn't always a bad idea. According to a new study, that's exactly how a group of animals living 250 million years ago survived the worst mass extinction of all time. In a series of new fossil
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Bird-Eating Frog Among 163 New Species Found in Mekong Region
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, conservation, endangered, environment, habitat, humans, protection, investigation, wildanimals, wildlife, climate-change, nature, research, science, world, mekong, asia, discovery )

PinkMindy
- 54 days ago - cnn.com
A frog that eats birds and a gecko with leopard stripes are among the 163 new species discovered last year in the Greater Mekong region of southeast Asia, according to a report by the World Wildlife Fund.
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Yawning Toons Make An Ape Gape
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, chimpanzees, yawning, science, research, study, scientists )

Daphna
- 71 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Computer animations of yawning chimpanzees provoke the same irresistible grins in real chimps, according to an unusual study released Wednesday. "Contagious yawning" is well known among humans, and earlier studies have shown that chimps are n
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Technology We Like: GPS Pet Locator Helps Owners Find Their Lost Animals
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, GPS, dogs, pets, protection )

Cher
- 77 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
That's where the Spotlight GPS pet locator comes in. For $200, owners can now know where their pooches are at all times. Developed by PAW (Position Animals Worldwide) and released in conjunction with the American Kennel Club's Companion Animal Recovery
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Researchers Challenge The Origins Of Domestic Dogs
Science & Tech  (tags: science, dogs, animals, DNA, Asia, Africa, Egypt, wolves, humans, technology, research, study, investigation, discovery )

Tom
- 107 days ago - redorbit.com
Scientists have long concluded that domestication of canines began in East Asia, due to the huge genetic diversity of dogs found there. But new research published in the journal PNAS shows the DNA of dogs in African villages is just as varied.
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'Proof' Malaria Began in Chimps
Science & Tech  (tags: science, research, discovery, study, health, malaria, humans, animals, diseases )

Dee
- 108 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Scientists say they have genetic proof malaria spread by mosquitoes jumped species from chimpanzees to humans.
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Nasa Chimps Earn Florida Comforts After Taking a Punishing Step for Mankind
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, chimps, primates, nasa, space program, miloitary, research, suffering, experiments, science, technology, moon, landing )

Tom
- 140 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
An infant chimpanzee seized in Africa for the US Air Force in the 1950s, Marty was recruited into the military's air and space research program, paving the way for America's first manned spaceflight in 1961 and, ultimately, the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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Buffalo Cloned By Indian Scientists
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, scientists, animal cloning, science, research, technology )

Simone
- 165 days ago - redorbit.com
According to a report, scientists in the Indian state of Haryana have cloned a buffalo using foetal tissue. The female calf, according to the Hindu newspaper, weighed 95 pounds and was born at the National Dairy Research Institute in the city of
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