3+ hour, 21+ min ago  (330+ words) A discovery near the Cornell University campus has researchers buzzing. It all started when a Cornell lab technician walked through the East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca on her way to work and came across an aggregation of bees. Entomology professor…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago  (459+ words) More than 150 animals taken from a site in Oswego County last week are doing well and on the road to a full recovery, the volunteer official in charge of the rescue effort said Monday. Tanya Semchenko, president of the Oswego…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (228+ words) For the second time in about a month, police and animal welfare advocates are dealing with a massive animal rescue in Oswego County. On April 17, an Oswego County Sheriff's Deputy drove to a home at 90 Tudo Road in Mexico. The…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (298+ words) Oswego County legislators are scheduled to vote Thursday night on a plan to create an online registry of people convicted of animal abuse. The idea is to allow businesses or people selling or giving away animals to be able to…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (177+ words) Dr. Ernest Williams will present a program called Observing Nature. Observing Nature will focus on what we see when looking at the natural world. The talk will include photos from different places that show the beauty, diversity, grandeur, and patterns…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (626+ words) When people are shown a spiky shape next to a rounded one and asked which shape is called "kiki" and which one is "bouba," people from all kinds of cultures overwhelmingly associate "bouba" with the blob-like shape and "kiki" with…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1084+ words) Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process " just count up the growth rings in its fossilized bones. "We always thought that those rings were formed annually," says Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, a…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago  (508+ words) In ancient times, people thought moist-skinned salamanders could survive in fire. That's not true, of course, but some salamanders have a surprising ability to deal with another temperature extreme: freezing cold. In fact, blue-spotted salamanders can remain active even when…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (620+ words) The story of Rockalina the turtle " who was rescued after nearly a half-century of neglect " now has a new character. Enter an Oreo-sized baby turtle, who will be Rockalina's new friend and who represents a turning point in her recovery....

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (146+ words) By the mid1900s, black bears were becoming increasingly rare in Far West Texas. Their decline was driven by several factors, including ranchers who shot and trapped the wild animal and a loss of habitat through development. But beginning in the 80s, the…...