2+ hour, 57+ min ago  (603+ words) March 24 (Reuters) " Revealing the limitations of cloning, researchers who repeatedly cloned mice for two decades have discovered that such serial duplication triggers grave genetic mutations that accumulate over the generations and ultimately become fatal. The research contradicted the notion that…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (196+ words) WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) " A 50-year-old Central Wisconsin woman may have a plea deal with the state for multiple counts of animal abuse. Court records show Heather Zynda is scheduled for a plea and sentencing hearing on April 14th for seven counts:…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (246+ words) NAIROBI, March 17 (Reuters) " A court in Kenya on Tuesday charged two men with transporting wildlife illegally after one of them, a "Chinese national, was arrested at Nairobi's "Jomo Kenyatta International Airport with more than 2,000 live ants last week. Zhang Kequn,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (534+ words) WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) " Bonobos for years have had the reputation of being the cool hippies of the simian world, with a "make love, not war" ethos, in contrast to their belligerent cousins, the chimpanzees. But is this reputation valid? A…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago  (314+ words) AZUMINO, Japan, March 10 (Reuters) " Punch the baby snow monkey and his stuffed orangutan have captured hearts around the world, spawned memes and even won over the White House with "their charm. But in the wild, his fellow Japanese macaques "often…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (85+ words) March 3 (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Tuesday took the first "step toward loosening "regulations that protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale from vessel strikes. Here "are "some details: (Reporting by Nichola Groom; Editing by Dan... Trump administration considering looser…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (306+ words) Feb 19 (Reuters) " It was not an easy task for a team of dinosaur-hunting scientists to reach the remote site called Jenguebi in northern Niger deep in the Sahara Desert. It was fitting that the closest locality was named Sirig Taghat,…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (765+ words) Feb 19 (Reuters) " At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs, notable for its large blade-shaped head crest and jaws bearing interlocking…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (648+ words) Feb 10 (Reuters) " Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature dating to about 307 million years ago that is one of the oldest-known plant-eating land vertebrates, representing a pivotal juncture in animal evolution. The creature,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (204+ words) JOHANNESBURG, Feb 10 (Reuters) " South Africa recorded a 16% drop in rhino poaching last year, the second consecutive "decline of that magnitude, the environment ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry said in a statement that 352 rhinos were killed for their horns in…...