What’s the Most Painful Sting? An Interview with ‘the King of Sting’ By Douglas Main The bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) has the most painful sting in the insect world. Juan …
Science In Narcisse, Around 75,000 Snakes Are Waking Up From a Nap By JOANNA KLEIN MAY 6, 2016 Red-sided garter snakes. Upon emerging from their eight-month slumber, they get down …
Malaria vaccine candidate shows longer protection, promise, direction of next steps By Antigone Barton on May 9, 2016. The quest for a vaccine that provides lasting protection against malaria took …
The war on elephants How the very existence of Africa’s elephants is threatened by poachers, traffickers and Asia’s appetite for ivory By Alastair Leithead WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS GRAPHIC …
Who is the ‘Ivory Queen’? 9 May 2016 Image copyright AFP A 66-year-old bespectacled Chinese woman may not be most people’s idea of an ivory smuggling kingpin, but that’s exactly …
Australia quietly adds 49 species to threatened and endangered lists Brush-tailed bettong, three-toed snake-tooth skink, swift parrot and types of orchid and albatross listed A ghost bat bats receives a …
A New Weapon in the War on Weeds: Flamethrowers Long used in agriculture, land managers are now wondering whether cooking weeds to death is better than pesticides Meghan Fellows sprays …
Rapid Zika Test Is Introduced by Researchers By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.MAY 6, 2016 A paper-based test can diagnose a Zika virus infection within a few hours. Credit Wyss …
The museum has generated controversy over gentrification of Rio de Janeiro ahead of the 2016 Olympics. (Luiz Souza/NurPhoto/Corbis ) By Jennifer Billock A new sentry stands guard on Rio de …
Tillandsia nizandaensis Ehlers, sp. nov. Die Brom. 1: 33-36. 2016 A Tillandsia hammeri Rauh & Ehlers, cui versimiliter affinis, habitu majori, stolonibus longis, foliis viridioribus, inflorescentia saepe duplo-composita, spicis latioribus, …