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1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (403+ words) The P.E.I. Watershed Alliance is looking for landowners with abandoned wells on their properties to take part in a project that’s monitoring the Island's bat population. The non-profit's project began over five years ago. It uses acoustic monitoring to track where…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (82+ words) In addition to providing bats with habitat, wells can also help prevent disease Image | hibernating bats in PEI Caption: The P.E.I. Watershed Alliance uses acoustic monitoring to track where bats are living in hopes of ultimately restoring their habitat. (Jordi Segers…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (557+ words) The earliest placental mammals may have been far more social than previously thought. A phylogenetic model has shown that their common ancestor was largely solitary, but living in pairs was already part of its potential social repertoire. The distant common…...

6+ day, 58+ min ago   (336+ words) One of the pups(Image: Chester Zoo) Three tiny, potato-shaped pups with a surprising connection to one of the biggest animals on the planet have been born at Chester Zoo. The Rock hyrax pups were born to parents Maris and…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (515+ words) While white-nose syndrome can be absolutely devastating in bats, Lisa Wilkinson, a senior species at risk biologist and the provincial bat specialist with Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, says bats at most monitored sites in Alberta seem to be holding…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (760+ words) The finding matters beyond the laboratory because these are the same animals whose populations have collapsed across the eastern United States. Myotis species are among the hardest hit by white-nose syndrome, and the little brown bat that anchored the study's…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (740+ words) These early mammals looked like shrews do today. They were small and had a long body, eyes typical for nocturnal mammals and little spiky teeth for eating insects. But they were not shrews. They were the ancestors of all the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (174+ words) TheDailyNewsOnline.com A portion of the STREAM U.S. Data Centers site at Western New York Science & Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park is shown on Thursday, May 7. ALABAMA — Stream Data Centers has made minor changes to its plans for a $19.5 billion data…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1028+ words) The candy-striped creature twines around gentle fingers as the human overhead leans in to make notes. This little scarlet snake is one of the morning’s gifts: a healthy young native that had been going about its snaky business until it…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (645+ words) As dusk settled over Wellesley, a expectant crowd of thirty gathered at the Turner Road gate, off Weston Rd. The scent of DEET was in the air, along with a sense of excitement. Adults and kids were gathered to see…...