http://www.mail.com/subjects/76-zoology.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/76-zoology.html http://www.mail.com/news/world/2096200-mice-return-month-space.html MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space for what scientists said was the longest experiment of its kind. Fewer than half of the 53 mice and other rodents who blasted off on April 19 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome survived the flight, Russian news agencies repo... Sun, 19 May 2013 16:04:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2096200-mice-return-month-space.html 2013-05-19T16:04:51Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2083682-wind-farms-pass-eagle-deaths.html CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — Wind farms in this corner of Wyoming have killed more than four dozen golden eagles since 2009, one of the deadliest places in the country of its kind. But so far, the companies operating industrial-sized turbines here and elsewhere that are killing eagles and other protected birds have yet to be fined or prosecuted - even tho... Tue, 14 May 2013 21:47:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2083682-wind-farms-pass-eagle-deaths.html 2013-05-14T21:47:07Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2068892-critter-cams-provide-peek-lives-bears.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Biologists at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are getting a peek into what city bears do all day. Six bears were equipped with rugged video cameras attached to collars around their necks, which are allowing biologists to get a good idea of how the four black and two brown bears spent their time last summer. Tue, 07 May 2013 17:08:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2068892-critter-cams-provide-peek-lives-bears.html 2013-05-07T17:08:20Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2066562-east-to-overrun-billions-cicadas.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more. Scientists even have a horror-movie name for the infestation: Br... Tue, 07 May 2013 07:24:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2066562-east-to-overrun-billions-cicadas.html 2013-05-07T07:24:02Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2058558-feds-dramatic-bee-disappearance.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A new federal report blames a combination of problems for a mysterious and dramatic disappearance of U.S. honeybees since 2006. The intertwined factors cited include a parasitic mite, multiple viruses, bacteria, poor nutrition, genetics, habitat loss and pesticides. The multiple causes make it harder to do something about what's called c... Thu, 02 May 2013 19:43:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2058558-feds-dramatic-bee-disappearance.html 2013-05-02T19:43:13Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2047300-draft-rule-ends-protections-gray-wolves.html BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials have drafted plans to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that could end a decades-long recovery effort that has restored the animals but only in parts of their historic range. The draft U.S. Department of Interior rule obtained by The Associated Press contends the roughly 6... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:47:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2047300-draft-rule-ends-protections-gray-wolves.html 2013-04-26T22:47:36Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2044768-monkey-see-monkey-do.html WASHINGTON (AP) — You don't have to be a teenager to want to fit in at the school lunchroom. Some wild animals seem to follow similar monkey-see, monkey-do behavior to follow the crowd and find the best eats, new research finds. South African monkeys switched foods purely because of peer pressure and humpback whales off the coast of New England copied a n... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:13:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2044768-monkey-see-monkey-do.html 2013-04-25T18:13:22Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2044466-newfound-hormone-holds-hope-diabetes-treatment.html NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified a hormone that can sharply boost the number of cells that make insulin in mice, a discovery that may someday lead to a treatment for the most common type of diabetes. People have their own version of this hormone, and the new work suggests that giving diabetics more might one day help them avoid insulin shots. Th... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:16:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2044466-newfound-hormone-holds-hope-diabetes-treatment.html 2013-04-25T16:16:20Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2013314-infrared-camera-wild-aimed-montana-owl-nest.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Denver Holt has been studying the long-eared owl for 27 years. He's banded over 1,700 of the birds and found 225 nests in Montana. But he's never been able to see what the nocturnal birds do at night until now. An infrared camera and microphone on top of a pole in willow thickets on Montana rangeland is aimed at a long-eared owl nest. H... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:26:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2013314-infrared-camera-wild-aimed-montana-owl-nest.html 2013-04-11T15:26:27Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2011242-alarm-vanishing-frogs-caribbean.html PATILLAS, Puerto Rico (AP) — A curtain of sound envelops the two researchers as they make their way along the side of a mountain in darkness, occasionally hacking their way with a machete to reach the mouth of a small cave. Peeps, tweets and staccato whistles fill the air, a pulsing undercurrent in the tropical night. To the untrained ear, it's just a mis... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:12:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2011242-alarm-vanishing-frogs-caribbean.html 2013-04-10T21:12:16Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1986980-3-4-reptiles-stolen-calif-museum.html FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Three of four reptiles that were swiped from a science museum and thrown together into a garbage bag during a heist were recovered Friday, though a 3-foot-long ball python remained at large, officials said. The 3½-foot savannah monitor lizard, a 7-foot-long red-tailed boa constrictor and another 3-foot-long ball python were in good c... Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:03:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1986980-3-4-reptiles-stolen-calif-museum.html 2013-03-30T04:03:02Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1953510-monarch-butterflies-drop-ominously-mexico.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of Monarch butterflies making it to their winter refuge in Mexico dropped 59 percent this year, falling to the lowest level since comparable record-keeping began 20 years ago, scientists reported Wednesday. It was the third straight year of declines for the orange-and-black butterflies that migrate from the United States and ... Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:25:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1953510-monarch-butterflies-drop-ominously-mexico.html 2013-03-14T04:25:20Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1938896-caffeine-shot-nectar-bee-memory-buzz.html NEW YORK (AP) — Talk about a caffeine buzz: A new study says honeybees get a shot of caffeine from certain flowers, and it perks up their memory. That spurs them to return to the same type of plant, boosting its prospects for pollination and the future of the plant species. Maybe it shouldn't be a surprise that one of the flowers is the coffee plant. Its ... Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:20:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1938896-caffeine-shot-nectar-bee-memory-buzz.html 2013-03-07T19:20:39Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1934856-scientists-focus-sandy-loss-lab-mice.html NEW YORK (AP) — It was one of the most dramatic stories from Superstorm Sandy: more than 300 patients including tiny babies safely removed from a flooded New York hospital that lost power. But in a research building at the complex, where thousands of lab mice were kept, the story had a sadder ending. A storm surge into the basement swamped some 7,000 cage... Wed, 06 Mar 2013 07:57:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1934856-scientists-focus-sandy-loss-lab-mice.html 2013-03-06T07:57:06Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1923150-plight-american-bumblebee-disappearing.html WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not just honey bees that are in trouble. The fuzzy American bumblebee seems to be disappearing in the Midwest. Two new studies in Thursday's journal Science conclude that wild bees, like the American bumblebee, are increasingly important in pollinating flowers and crops that provide us with food. And, at least in the Midwest, they s... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:14:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1923150-plight-american-bumblebee-disappearing.html 2013-02-28T23:14:40Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1896728-fewer-bees-us-threat-to-worlds-almond-supply.html TURLOCK, Calif. (AP) — In an almond orchard in California's Central Valley, bee inspector Neil Trent pried open a buzzing hive and pulled out a frame to see if it was at least two-thirds covered with bees. Trent has hopped from orchard to orchard this month, making sure enough bees were in each hive provided by beekeepers. Not enough bees covering a frame... Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:06:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1896728-fewer-bees-us-threat-to-worlds-almond-supply.html 2013-02-16T19:06:46Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1890666-brown-and-white-whistling-owl-idd-species.html JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Researchers looking for a nocturnal bird in Indonesia accidentally identified a new species of owl — one that has a distinct whistling song and is believed to exist nowhere else in the world. The Rinjani Scops owl was first identified in 2003 and has since been spotted only on Lombok island, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) from th... Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:23:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1890666-brown-and-white-whistling-owl-idd-species.html 2013-02-14T04:23:18Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1875634-tragedy-dinosaurs-opportunity-mammals-us.html WASHINGTON (AP) — New research pinpoints how the torch passed from one dominant creature on Earth to another, from the brutish dinosaur to the crafty mammal. Two studies published Thursday in the journal Science better explain the Earth-shaking consequences of a catastrophic cosmic collision 66 million years ago when a comet or asteroid smashed into the G... Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1875634-tragedy-dinosaurs-opportunity-mammals-us.html 2013-02-07T22:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1864012-sandys-wake-leaves-shore-birds-dire-straits.html When red knots descend on the beaches of Delaware Bay this spring famished from their marathon flight toward the Canadian Arctic from the tip of South America, the rosy-breasted shorebirds may find slim pickings instead of the feast of horseshoe crab eggs they count on to fuel the rest of their migration. Superstorm Sandy scrubbed away almost all the sand... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1864012-sandys-wake-leaves-shore-birds-dire-straits.html 2013-02-02T14:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1831406-joshua-tree-spider-species-named-u2s-bono.html JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — It appeared Bono and arachnids didn't mix when his "Spider-Man" musical had a rough Broadway run, but that didn't keep a biologist from naming an actual spider species after the U2 singer. Jason Bond of Alabama's Auburn University has identified 33 new species of trapdoor spider, including three of them in the Cali... Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1831406-joshua-tree-spider-species-named-u2s-bono.html 2013-01-19T10:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1827798-camera-maine-island-streams-gray-seal-video.html PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A camera that records seal-pupping activities on a remote Maine island began streaming live to the public Thursday in what's believed to be the first live-streaming camera at an East Coast seal-pupping site. Similar high-definition cameras have been set up around the world in recent years to capture the activities of eagles, polar b... Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1827798-camera-maine-island-streams-gray-seal-video.html 2013-01-17T23:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1820296-hog-nosed-skunk-stir-grand-canyon.html FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Desert bighorn sheep, river otters and mountain lions, yes. But a hog-nosed skunk at the Grand Canyon? Hardly. The striped creatures are usually found in southeastern Arizona, Texas and Mexico. But one of them somehow made its way north of the Colorado River last year. A group of rafters camping along the river in August was headed... Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1820296-hog-nosed-skunk-stir-grand-canyon.html 2013-01-14T20:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1798044-rare-san-francisco-river-otter-stumps-researchers.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A rapt crowd followed a trail of bubbles that zipped over the surface of a seaside pond in the ruins of a 19th century bath in San Francisco. San Francisco's newest star — the first river otter seen in the city in decades — surfaced its whiskery head furtively, a mouth full of sea grass. The crowd oohed as large waves pounded rocks ju... Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1798044-rare-san-francisco-river-otter-stumps-researchers.html 2013-01-03T23:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1747670-gene-altered-mosquitoes-used-vs-dengue.html KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Mosquito control officials in the Florida Keys are waiting for the federal government to sign off on an experiment that would release hundreds of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes to reduce the risk of dengue fever in the tourist town of Key West. If approved by the Food and Drug Administration, it would be the first such ... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1747670-gene-altered-mosquitoes-used-vs-dengue.html 2012-12-06T22:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1742142-fast-growing-fish-wind-up-your-plate.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Salmon that's been genetically modified to grow twice as fast as normal could soon show up on your dinner plate. That is, if the company that makes the fish can stay afloat. After weathering concerns about everything from the safety of humans eating the salmon to their impact on the environment, Aquabounty was poised to become the world'... Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1742142-fast-growing-fish-wind-up-your-plate.html 2012-12-04T21:57:00Z