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Mon, Jun 21, 2010 5:39 PM by Agence France-Presse
The study shows that the louse has the smallest genome of any insect and very few genes related to light reception, odors and tastes.
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Mon, Jun 21, 2010 4:27 PM by Agence France-Presse
The whale was part of a Greenpeace stunt to protest a proposed end to the whaling moratorium at the IWC conference.
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Mon, Jun 21, 2010 4:06 PM by Agence France-Presse
Conservationists and the IWC's scientific committee say that most of the whale catch quotas in the proposal are not sustainable.
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Mon, Jun 21, 2010 1:04 PM
Video: Family's pet penguin Lala has adapted to life in Japan's warm climate.
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Mon, Jun 21, 2010 10:05 AM by Arthur Max, AP
A compromise that would suspend the whaling ban has been proposed, but it's an unhappy option for nations that abhor whaling.
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Mon, Jun 21, 2010 8:35 AM by Agence France-Presse
The IWC is holding its annual meeting in Morocco with a proposal on the table to end the moratorium on commercial whaling.
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Mon, Jun 21, 2010 6:24 AM by Associated Press
The young whale was stranded for five days in a Danish fjord, and attempts to rescue it failed.
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Mon, Jun 21, 2010 2:58 AM by Agence France-Presse
The suspect killed the tiger in August by placing poisoned bait in its enclosure after closing hours.
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Sat, Jun 19, 2010 11:42 PM by Agence France-Presse
Some scientists suggest that whale interactions can best be described as culture, a notion usually reserved for homo sapiens.
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Sat, Jun 19, 2010 3:14 AM by Chi-Chi Zhang, AP
Once banned by the Communist Party as bourgeois, pet ownership is booming in China, spawning a slew of cat and dog pampering businesses.
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Fri, Jun 18, 2010 7:36 AM by Jay Alabaster, AP
Delegates to next week's IWC meeting will consider whether to allow limited hunts if Tokyo stops pursuing whales in a southern sanctuary.
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Fri, Jun 18, 2010 5:04 AM by Agence France-Presse
Bluefin tuna numbers have fallen dangerously low in the Mediterranean and east Atlantic, prompting green groups to take action.
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Thu, Jun 17, 2010 2:10 PM by Reuters
Researchers suggest both sexes of newborn rats are born with the same tools on which to build navigational skills.
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Thu, Jun 17, 2010 12:02 PM by Agence France-Presse
Years in captivity have caused most polar bears in Germany to have psychological problems.
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Thu, Jun 17, 2010 7:40 AM by Jay Reeves, John Flesher and Tamara Lush, AP
The animals' presence close to shore means their usual habitat is badly polluted, and the crowding could cause mass die-offs as fish run out of oxygen.
