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Are Cell Phones To Blame For The Disappearance Of Honey Bees?
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Posted June 9th, 2010 at 12:03 am

The growing use of mobile telephones is behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives, scientists have claimed. Their disappearance has caused alarm throughout Europe and North America where campaigners have blamed agricultural pesticides, climate change and the advent of genetically modified crops for what is now known as ‘colony collapse disorder.’ Britain has seen a 15 per cent decline in its bee population in the last two years and shrinking numbers has led ...

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Pesticide Turns Male Frogs Into Females
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Posted March 11th, 2010 at 12:08 am

A commonly used pesticide known as atrazine can turn male frogs into females that are successfully able to reproduce, a new study finds.While previous work has shown atrazine can cause sexual abnormalities in frogs, such as hermaphroditism (having both male and female sex organs), this study is the first to find that atrazine’s effects are long-lasting and can influence reproduction in amphibians. The results suggest that atrazine, which is a weed killer used primarily on corn crops, co...

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Pooch Power: Small Dogs Originated In Middle East
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Posted March 1st, 2010 at 12:10 am

Small domesticated dogs probably originated in the Middle East more than 12,000 years ago as the descendants of grey wolves, according to a gene study published on Wednesday.University of California at Los Angeles researchers Melissa Gray and Robert Wayne led a team that searched for variations of a gene called IGF1 which is a characteristic of small dogs. "(The variant) probably arose early in their history," said Gray, whose paper is published online by BMC Biology, an open-access jou...

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Pet Prozac To Treat Depression
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Posted February 25th, 2010 at 12:12 am

Dog owners will soon be able to give their pets Prozac to treat their depression.The once-a-day chewable tablet, which tastes of beef, has been launched in the US and will soon be available in the UK after being granted a licence.Its makers say it can help cure 'canine compulsive disorder', which apparently affects thousands of dogs and causes excessive licking, whimpering and tail-chasing The drug, called Reconcile, is also designed to curb the compulsive pacing, chewing and dribblin...

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The World’s Rarest Cats
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Posted February 7th, 2010 at 12:19 am

The 21st century is marked not only by new technologies but also by an ever growing number of extinct and endangered animals. Apart from the extinct animals we will never see, these rare felines are so few since they are either threatened by loss of habitat or they have suffered from rare color mutation. Take a look at the rarest animals in the world! The Maltese Tiger The Blue tiger was reported mostly from the Fujian Province of China, being characterized by a bluish fur with dark s...

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The Golden Tabby Tiger
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Posted February 5th, 2010 at 12:15 am

The golden tiger has its white coat and gold patches due to an extremely rare colourvariation caused by a recessive gene. Around 30 tigers are believed to exist in the world but many more are carriers of the gene. Records of the golden or strawberry tiger date back to the 1900s, in India. The first golden tiger cub born in captivity was in 1983 and this came from standard colored Bengal tigers. A golden tabby tiger is one with an extremely rare color variation caused by a recessive gene a...

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Giant Cattle To Be Bred Back From Extinction
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Posted January 22nd, 2010 at 12:06 am

Aurochs were immortalised in prehistoric cave paintings and admired for their brute strength and "elephantine" size by Julius Caesar. But despite their having gone the way of the dodo and the woolly mammoth, there are plans to bring the giant animals back to life.The huge cattle with sweeping horns which once roamed the forests of Europe have not been seen for nearly 400 years. Now Italian scientists are hoping to use genetic expertise and selective breeding of modern-day wild cattle to recr...

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Are Cell Phones To Blame For The Disappearance Of Honey Bees?