Researchers at Emory University in the U.S. have cleared chimpanzees of the long-held belief that they are selfish animals who hate to share. A new study has found that chimps can show selfless behavior. This also reveals that our closest living relatives are a lot like humans. Previous experiments have
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The greatest threat to the South African soldiers who guard Kruger National Park are not the wild animals. The lions, cheetahs, and other fearsome animals that roam the park generally leave them alone. It’s the poachers - those who are heavily armed with guns and grenades - that pose an even more dangerous threat.
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An algae bloom that has blanketed almost 20,000 square kilometers of the Yellow Sea didn’t stop beachgoers in Qingdao, in eastern China’s Shandong Province, from jumping into the green-colored waters. The algae belong to a species of marine plankton found in waters all around the world. In the right
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Recently, polar bears have been added to Canada’s species at risk list. Now, a plan must be made within three years to prevent the iconic Arctic animal from becoming endangered or threatened. This move was made three years after a group of scientists advised the Canadian government that the bears needed special
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Millions of tons of garbage, most of it plastic debris, are dumped into the oceans every year. This may pose a deadly threat to whales, according to a report at an international whaling forum last week. Thousands of documents from the past 20 years reveal that about 80 species of whales and dolphins
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Even Captain Jack Sparrow would be impressed with the treasures found on the ‘Nuestra Senora de Atocha,’ a 17th century Spanish ship that sank near Florida in the U.S. Since the shipwrecked site was discovered in 1985 by an American salvage company called Mel Fisher, more than 40 tons of gold, silver, emeralds, and
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A group of slow moving turtles caused a few flight delays at one of the busiest airports in the world last week. About 150 Diamondback Terrapins were found crossing a runway at John F. Kennedy International in New York. They were trying to reach the sandy shores of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, which borders
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A panel of scientists warned that climate change, overfishing, and other man-made environmental problems are pushing life in the oceans to the brink of mass extinction. Earlier this month, 27 marine experts published a report, which highlights the alarming decline in the
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A teenager from the Philippines was declared the world’s shortest man by the Guinness World Records earlier this month. Eighteen-year-old Junrey Balawing is just 59.9 centimeters tall. Although he was born a normal-size baby, he stopped growing after his second birthday. His parents were
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Earlier this month, a 14-year-old Indian-American girl from Pennsylvania named Sukanya Roy won the National Spelling Bee Competition. She correctly spelled the word “cymotrichous,” which means “to have wavy hair.” Roy took home a trophy and $40,000 in cash and prizes.
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