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Human wounds take almost three times as long to heal as the injuries of other mammals, including chimpanzees, which are among our closest living relatives. It isn’t clear why, but it may be an ...

We are now in the middle of the sixth mass extinction, caused by our emergence as a planet-shaping force. Species are going extinct far faster than the average natural rate of loss. But these ...

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The takin, a large Himalayan ungulate also known as the 'gnu goat'. A Griffith University ecologist has played a key role in new research that has found the promotion of 'flagship' species by ...

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Owabi (R), a two-week-old monkey cub of the Cercopithecus roloway family, one of the 25 most endangered primate species in the world, is pictured with its mother, Nyaga, on August 2, 2012 at the zoo ...