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SHEBA's "Ignored to Adored Campaign Captures What Every Cat Parent Already Knows
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (12+ words) SHEBA's 'Ignored to Adored' Campaign Captures What Every Cat Parent Already Knows...
Call to strengthen enforcement against illegal wildlife trade
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (376+ words) Marine experts have proposed an integrated conservation framework, including community participation, to address the rising threat from illegal marine species trade and boost marine enforcement. Speaking at a national capacity building workshop being held at the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research…...
Extinct bluebuck may return as scientists advance gene-editing project
1+ week, 6+ day ago (559+ words) The bluebuck, an antelope with a silvery slate-blue coat and striking horns, inhabited the coastal grasslands of South Africa's southwestern Cape region until European settlers hunted it to extinction in around 1800. A "U. S. company now plans to resurrect the bluebuck as…...
Cretaceous "Kraken" octopus discovered as apex predator of ancient seas
2+ week, 5+ day ago (663+ words) The Kraken is a huge tentacled sea monster from Norse folklore that drags ships and sailors down into the deep. During the age of dinosaurs, "new research shows, there existed a creature as close to a real-life Kraken as you…...
Alternatives to animal testing in drug development
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (220+ words) The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a draft guidance to help drug developers validate new approach methodologies (NAMs) as an alternative to animal testing, and to bring safe, effective drugs sooner to market based on human-centric data." This…...
Bringing animal welfare to companies: IKC looks to bring in ethical supply chains involving farm animals, along with other cruelty-free practices
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (281+ words) The aim is to have a roadmap towards a cruelty-free and sustainable industry, be it cage-free practices in poultry or better welfare standards for farm animals "Bringing animal welfare to companies: IKC looks to bring in ethical supply chains involving…...
Scientists discover hybrid photoreceptors in deep-sea fish larvae
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (539+ words) For more than "a century, biology textbooks have stated that vision among vertebrates - people included - is built from two clearly defined cell types: rods for processing "dim light and cones for bright light and color. New research involving deep-sea fish…...
Elephant trunk whiskers give unique sense of touch, study reveals
3+ mon, 10+ hour ago (10+ words) Business Line...
Tamil Nadu is building sea turtle conservation centre in Chennai
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (108+ words) Business Line Tamil Nadu is building sea turtle conservation centre in Chennai Tamil Nadu is building its first sea turtle conservation centre in Chennai. The foundation stone of the Centre was laid by the Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday....