News About Plants And Animals 18-JUL-08 en-us Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Jul 18, 2008 - Nematodes, their importance and management, will bring 350 scientists from 36 countries together at the 5th International Congress of Nematology (ICN) in Brisbane.]]> ]]> Del Cabo, Mexico (SPX) Jul 18, 2008 - Each year in July marks the beginning of sea turtle season along the beaches of Cabo San Lucas when female endangered sea turtles start returning to shore to nest and lay their eggs.]]> Nottingham, UK (SPX) Jul 17, 2008 - The last 10 years has seen a huge increase in the popularity of exotic pets. Among the weird and wonderful animals being kept in our homes are monkeys, tarantulas, iguanas, salamanders, snakes, even hedgehogs.]]> Corvallis OR (SPX) Jul 15, 2008 - Paying rural landowners in Oregon's Willamette Basin to protect at-risk animals won't necessarily mean that their newly conserved trees and plants will absorb more carbon from the atmosphere and vice versa, a new study has found.]]> ]]> Walnut Creek CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2008 - In the continuing effort to tap the vast, unexplored reaches of the earth's microbial and plant domains for bioenergy and environmental applications, the DOE Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has announced its latest portfolio of DNA sequencing projects that it will undertake in the coming year.]]> Washington DC (SPX) Jul 11, 2008 - After taking a fresh look at an old fossil, John Flynn, Frick Curator of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, and colleagues determined that the brains of the ancestors of modern Neotropical primates were as small as those of their early fossil simian counterparts in the Old World.]]> Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 11, 2008 - Hidden away in museums for more that 100 years, some recently rediscovered flatfish fossils have filled a puzzling gap in the story of evolution and answered a question that initially stumped even Charles Darwin.]]> ]]> Ottawa (AFP) July 10, 2008 - Canada's prime minister on Thursday warned the European Commission president not to prohibit Canadian seal skins, arguing that public pressure for a ban is based on misinformation from activists.]]> College Station TX (SPX) Jul 10, 2008 - A study published in the current issue of Science challenges the long-held belief that diversity of marine species has been increasing continuously since the origin of animals.]]> London UK (SPX) Jul 08, 2008 - An international research team has published the first clear example of how climate extremes can create conditions in which diseases that are normally tolerated singly may converge and bring about mass die-offs in wildlife.]]> ]]> ]]> Washington DC (SPX) Jul 08, 2008 - World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is alarmed by the dramatic decline of at least 30 percent in the Bengal tiger population of Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal, once a refuge that boasted among the highest densities of the endangered species in the Eastern Himalayas. The recent survey of April 2008 showed a population of between 6-14 tigers, down from 20-50 tigers in 2005.]]> Washington DC (SPX) Jul 07, 2008 - The ecology of penguins makes these iconic swimming and diving seabirds of the Southern Hemisphere unusually susceptible to environmental changes.]]> Paris (AFP) July 2, 2008 - Some endangered species may face an extinction risk that is up to a hundred times greater than previously thought, according to a study released Wednesday.]]> Advertise in Terra Daily and reach thousands of industry, government and science readers the world over.

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