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02 de Agosto de 2019
Wolves are charismatic, conspicuous, and easy to single out as the top predator affecting populations of elk, deer, and other prey animals.
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01 de Agosto de 2019
Scientists describe the evolutionary dynamics of a sexually transmitted cancer affecting dogs, which arose in a single ancient animal, living as much as 8.5 millennia ago.
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01 de Agosto de 2019
A contagious canine cancer that conquered the world by spreading between dogs during mating likely arose around 6,000 years ago in Asia and spread around the globe through maritime activities, scientists say.
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30 de Julho de 2019
RNA -- the short-lived transcripts of genes -- from the 'Tumat puppy', a wolf of the Pleistocene era has been isolated, and its sequence analyzed in a new study.
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19 de Julho de 2019
A bone cancer known as osteosarcoma is genetically similar in dogs and human children, according to the results of a new study.
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16 de Julho de 2019
Researchers have accessed data on more than 19 million cats and have learned that most cats continue to put on weight as they age.
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09 de Julho de 2019
New research shows that inbreeding depression, the result of breeding closely-related individuals, reduces litter sizes in purebred golden retrievers.
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03 de Julho de 2019
Climbing the social ladder is a 'ruff' business for dogs, new research shows.
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02 de Julho de 2019
In 2018, a Florida man found a piece of tooth embedded in his foot from a shark bite off Flagler Beach 24 years earlier.
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26 de Junho de 2019
Animals learn the hard way which sights, sounds, and smells are relevant to survival.
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20 de Junho de 2019
A total of 174 chicken breeds are described in a publicly accessible database which scientists have built up in recent years. This database, the Synbreed Chicken Diversity Panel (SCDP), includes information about a large proportion of the available chicken species and their diversity.
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19 de Junho de 2019
Researchers report the first evidence in a non-human species, the domestic dog, of a relation between joint hypermobility and excitability: dogs with more joint mobility and flexibility tend to have more anxiety problems.
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17 de Junho de 2019
Dogs have evolved new muscles around the eyes to better communicate with humans.
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17 de Junho de 2019
Aggressive behavior in pet dogs is a serious problem for dog owners across the world, with bite injuries representing a serious risk to both people and other dogs.
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14 de Junho de 2019
For dogs with mammary tumors, deciding a course of treatment can depend on a variety of factors, some of which may seem to contradict one another.
