http://news.discovery.com/animals/ Animal News covers the animal kingdom from anteaters to zebras. Learn about fast frog evolution, animal communication, endangered species and more. en-us Copyright 2008, Discovery Communications Inc. http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-schedules/gallery/logos/dsc.gif http://news.discovery.com/animals/ 60 46 Sun Nov 15 2009 04:03:20 GMT Sun Nov 15 2009 04:03:20 GMT 1440 http://news.discovery.com/animals/sponges-recycle-carbon-to-give-life-to-coral-reefs.html 63b84054-93d1-4fb9-a02c-52c3a20490f2 Jennifer Viegas Animal Behavior Marine Life Oceans Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:02:52 EST Sponges Recycle Carbon to Give Life to Coral Reefs It's hard to think of a sponge as an animal, especially if you have a dried up non-synthetic one in your bathtub. Living sponges don't have circulatory, digestive or nervous systems, and they can often regenerate themselves from small fragments. ... http://news.discovery.com/animals/green-caviar-to-enter-fish-market.html aea302f8-0417-46f2-8c0c-6940998aef05 Jennifer Viegas Fish Food Marine Life Plants Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:29:53 EST "Green Caviar" to Enter Fish Market Have you ever eaten "Green Caviar?" (Image: ayustety) It's a remarkable seaweed, sometimes also called "sea grapes," "ocean grapes," or "Umibido" (in Japan), which has the texture of caviar and even looks like caviar, as evidenced here. OK, so the ... http://news.discovery.com/animals/age-when-dogs-understand-human-pointing-determined.html b3852bc9-969b-498d-9d48-ec127db05243 Jennifer Viegas Animal Behavior Animal Communication Dogs Pets Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:21:43 EST Age When Dogs Understand Human Pointing Determined When is it pointless to point for dogs? A new study has found that you can point all you like, but dogs under a certain age won't know what the heck you're doing. (Image: Maki) The findings, accepted for publication ... http://news.discovery.com/animals/black-cats-and-friday-the-13th.html 2a3cb486-2686-4482-b0cb-cd2c165249c0 Jennifer Viegas Animals Cats Current Events History Pets Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:25:52 EST Black Cats and Friday the 13th According to North Carolina's Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute, around 900 million dollars is lost each year on Friday the 13th, due to people choosing not to travel or otherwise conduct business on this day. It's estimated that some ... http://news.discovery.com/animals/rare-species-named-after-crocodile-hunter-steve-irwin.html f637c581-af36-4f9b-b82c-ef7b866330ea Jennifer Viegas Humans Insects and Arachnids Television Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:15:15 EST Rare Species Named After Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Last year we told you about a turtle named after Steve Irwin. Now yet another species, described in the following Queensland Museum release, has been named after the popular television host, wildlife expert and conservationist, who died in 2006. Queensland ... http://news.discovery.com/animals/scientists-rush-to-save-worlds-smallest-rhino.html eb0ae7b5-ac97-4a83-81d7-b4fff407a653 Jennifer Viegas Animals Extinction Cycles Mammals Wildlife Conservation Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:18:54 EST Scientists Rush to Save World's Smallest Rhino The world's smallest rhinoceros, the Sabah rhino, is very close to extinction. The following release and images from Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB) detail how scientists are teaming up to save the tiny rhino. International scientists and zoo experts started together ... http://news.discovery.com/animals/dancing-cockatoo-to-participate-in-weekend-dance-a-thon.html 27dd0603-2a15-48cd-ae03-310351d7e546 Jennifer Viegas Animal Behavior Animals Music Pet Birds Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:47:21 EST Dancing Cockatoo to Participate in Weekend Dance-A-Thon Do your kids like to dance, and can you travel to Indiana over the weekend? If so, they could appear on British and Canadian television grooving with Snowball, the world's most famous dancing cockatoo. Watch a new video of Snowball ... http://news.discovery.com/animals/skunks-the-worlds-most-unpalatable-animals.html d0af694f-6311-4892-86ff-3207b8ba0c6b Jennifer Viegas Animals Mammals Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:37:20 EST Skunks: The World's Most Unpalatable Animals? From the University of California at Davis: Predators with experience of skunks avoid them both because of their black-and-white coloration and their distinctive body shape, according to UC Davis wildlife researcher Jennifer Hunter. The study was published online Oct. 21 ... http://news.discovery.com/animals/california-cities-ban-cat-declawing.html 45674556-bb61-4471-9d4c-cebcd1c18c7a Jennifer Viegas Animals Cats Current Events Health Pets Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:49:30 EST California Cities Ban Cat Declawing In Northern California, the Berkeley City Council voted unanimously yesterday to ban the declawing of cats within its city limits. The news was shared with me just after the vote by Anthony Sanchez, Chief of Staff for City of Council ... http://news.discovery.com/animals/honeybee-mite-sniffers-colony.html a1b801bf-8f2e-4917-b3f5-f2aa9c62eba6 Cristen Conger Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Bees Colony Collapse Disorder Honey Parasites Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:37:00 EST Super-Sniffing Bees Combat Colony Pest A new population of honeybees is designed to root out a parasite that is a main culprit in a bee die-off. http://news.discovery.com/animals/great-white-shark-performs-cesarian-section.html dc4100b0-ec33-4f67-b61b-fbb368adc6a4 Jennifer Viegas Fish Oceans Sharks Weird News Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:20:21 EST Shark Performs Cesarian Section A shark has performed a C-section, according to the New Zealand Herald, Eco Worldly, and other media reports today. According to these sources, a shark at Kelly Tarltons Underwater World bit a pregnant female shark in the stomach. Sharks often ... http://news.discovery.com/animals/afghanistan-dog-recovered.html b2ddae9c-c08d-4b1d-b2da-70fe029468a4 Animals Battles and Incidents Dogs Military Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:19:00 EST MIA Dog Found in Afghanistan After 14 Months A bomb-sniffing dog that disappeared during a fierce battle in Afghanistan is found and returned to its unit. http://news.discovery.com/animals/chimpanzee-speech-language-gene.html 5034cc66-3cf9-45f5-af95-05eafcd9644f Chimpanzee Genes Genetic Science Humans Life Science Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST Why Can't Chimps Talk? A genetic mutation may explain why our closest relatives, chimpanzees, don't speak. http://news.discovery.com/animals/warm-blooded-dinosaurs-worked-up-a-sweat.html ea9b570c-f70d-44da-9676-26b17736d466 Jennifer Viegas Animals Dinosaur Era Animals Dinosaurs Extinct Animals Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:22:36 EST Warm-Blooded Dinosaurs Worked Up a Sweat Paleontologists for years have debated whether or not dinosaurs were warm or cold-blooded. New research suggests most were warm-blooded like us, according to the following Washington University in Saint Louis release: Were dinosaurs “warm-blooded” like present-day mammals and birds, or ... http://news.discovery.com/animals/worlds-hardiest-life-form-explained.html 9c83d34a-d917-4a26-abf5-d533a1e4fa17 Jennifer Viegas Evolution Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:01:06 EST World's Hardiest Life Form Explained This release just in from The Swedish Research Council: Got food poisoning? The cause might be bacterial spores, en extremely hardy survival form of bacteria, a nightmare for health care and the food industry and an enigma for scientists. Spore-forming ... http://news.discovery.com/animals/bats-engage-in-oral-sex.html 3a6e5dfa-f07f-4553-81fd-59784d23f75c Jennifer Viegas Animals Human Behavior Mammals Weird News Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:39:28 EST Bats Have Creative Sex Lives Certain primates, including humans, engage in oral sex. The practice has been documented in bonobos as well. But now researchers have documented fellatio in bats, marking the first time oral sex has been seen in an animal other than a ... http://news.discovery.com/animals/images-of-the-new-sauropodomorph.html 0b33ec80-629b-4db5-9777-b4f961a40bf3 Jennifer Viegas Animals Dinosaur Era Animals Dinosaurs Evolution Extinct Animals Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:34:54 EST Images of the New Sauropodomorph At Discovery News this week you can read about a new dinosaur from South Africa that lies at the heart of the sauropodomorph to sauropod transition. It helps to reveal how plant-eating dinosaurs became the world's largest known animals and ... http://news.discovery.com/animals/brown-pelican-off-endangered-list.html abf6fd13-c227-4d57-a008-4ac29991e2ae Birds Brown Pelican Endangered Species Global Warming Pelican Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:36:00 EST Brown Pelican No Longer Endangered After nearly 40 years of struggling for survival, the brown pelican is coming off the endangered species list. http://news.discovery.com/animals/the-300-pound-gorilla-voluntarily-monitors-his-blood-pressure.html 5eb9fe48-bd70-4c98-a3ff-9305ce56fbd6 Jennifer Viegas Animals Health Primates Zoos and Aquariums Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:14:03 EST 300-Pound Gorilla Voluntarily Monitors His Blood Pressure Imagine trying to monitor the blood pressure of a 300-pound gorilla. A new device, described in the following release from Georgia Institute of Technology Research News, makes that job a lot easier: Zoo Atlanta recently became the first zoological institution ... http://news.discovery.com/animals/sesame-street-anniversary-where-are-the-realistic-animals.html e496e61f-6858-4dbf-9e53-d2880cd3d586 Jennifer Viegas Animals Current Events Human Behavior Media Television Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:18:44 EST Sesame Street Anniversary: Where Are the Realistic Animals? Sesame Street celebrates its 40th anniversary today. As The Guardian in London reports, the popular children's television show is responsible for the "misguided belief that certain areas of Brooklyn are populated by freakishly tall canaries and their severely depressed elephant ...