The return of the native

	The return of the native India was the only country in the world to have five big cat species until recently. While the mile-a-minute cheetah has lost the race to survive in India, the tiger has its back to the wall, the sinewy snow leopard is barely surviving in its Himalayan abode, the ...
	Join the jumbo jet set Belinda Jackson gets far more than she bargained for at an elephant conservation park near Ubud. In a scene that is straight out of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, I am perched atop an Asian elephant, riding through the forest. But I am not in India, ...
	Dinosaur 'fills fossil record gap' Dinosaur fossils unearthed in Madagascar are of a new species that roamed the Earth about 90 million years ago, say US researchers. The remains date back to a time when India and Madagascar were one landmass cut off from the rest of the world.
	Russia Launches Animals Into Space on One-Month Journey An intrepid critter crew of geckos, mice and gerbils and other animals launched into orbit Friday (April 19) to begin a month-long Russian experiment to study how space travel affects living creatures. The space mission, scientists assure, will return the animals ...
	NASA Discovers Three Potentially Earth-like Worlds Kepler 69-c orbits a star like our own Sun and might be habitable. (Credit: Image credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech). NASA's Kepler mission, which seeks out planets outside of our solar system, has just discovered five new planets around two stars – and three ...
	A dinosaur which hatched its young like a bird TORONTO: A small, bird-like North American dinosaur incubated its eggs in a similar way to brooding birds — bolstering the evolutionary link between birds and the gigantic creatures, researchers have found. Scientists at the University of Calgary in Canada ...
	Massive amounts of charcoal enter the worlds' oceans Wild fires turn millions of hectares of vegetation into charcoal each year. An international team of researchers led by Thorsten Dittgar from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and Rudolf Jaffé from Florida International University's ...
	Horsehead Nebula: Herschel telescope images astronomical classic One of the classics of astronomy, the Horsehead Nebula, has been re-imaged by Europe's soon-to-retire Herschel space telescope. Horsehead Nebula. Herschel sees the sky at far-infrared wavelengths, revealing the vigorous star-forming activity taking place ...