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Senior on their smart phone.

How to spot scam aimed at seniors

Senior on their smart phone.

September 3, 2020, 6:02am Life

One day Jimmy Love of Wichita Falls, Texas, received a phone call that his grandson was in trouble. He didn’t think twice about sending $9,000 to help but soon realized he had been swindled. Read story

Grand Canyon National Park employees Klara Widrig, left, and Anne Miller examine a rock that revealed fossilized footprints at the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. Some researchers have estimated the footprints are 313 million years old, among the earliest found at the Grand Canyon.

Rock fall reveals ancient animal footprints

Grand Canyon National Park employees Klara Widrig, left, and Anne Miller examine a rock that revealed fossilized footprints at the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. Some researchers have estimated the footprints are 313 million years old, among the earliest found at the Grand Canyon.

September 1, 2020, 6:00am Life

It’s something like a modern-day chuckwalla, strolling in sand dunes on an island in what now is the Grand Canyon region. Read story

A researcher holds a 100-pound male Suwannee alligator snapping turtle, Macrochelys suwanniensis.

Snap! It’s a new species of turtle

A researcher holds a 100-pound male Suwannee alligator snapping turtle, Macrochelys suwanniensis.

September 1, 2020, 6:00am Life

Awww, how cute. Not really. Read story

A North Carolina researcher was among those who &quot;rediscovered&quot; the Somali Sengi.

Tiny mammal was ‘lost species’ — until researcher helped trap it

A North Carolina researcher was among those who &quot;rediscovered&quot; the Somali Sengi.

August 25, 2020, 6:00am Life

A tiny mammal with a long nose was considered a “lost species” — until a North Carolina scientist joined the effort to trap it. Read story

Researchers showed how they were able to hijack a locust&#039;s olfactory system to both detect and discriminate between different explosive scents.

Navy experimenting with ‘cyborg locusts’

Researchers showed how they were able to hijack a locust&#039;s olfactory system to both detect and discriminate between different explosive scents.

August 25, 2020, 6:00am Life

Call the swat team. Read story

An Aedes aegypti mosquito known to carry the Zika virus, is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil.

Florida to release modified mosquitoes

An Aedes aegypti mosquito known to carry the Zika virus, is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil.

August 25, 2020, 6:00am Life

Sometime next year, genetically modified mosquitoes will be released in the Florida Keys in an effort to combat persistent insect-borne diseases such as Dengue fever and the Zika virus. Read story

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 17, 2020 file photo, flames from the River Fire crest a ridge in Salinas, Calif. In California, a Mediterranean climate sets up ideal conditions for fire then is worsened by climate change, says University of California, Merced, fire scientist LeRoy Westerling, who has had his home threatened twice in the last few years.

California a perfect storm for massive wildfires

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 17, 2020 file photo, flames from the River Fire crest a ridge in Salinas, Calif. In California, a Mediterranean climate sets up ideal conditions for fire then is worsened by climate change, says University of California, Merced, fire scientist LeRoy Westerling, who has had his home threatened twice in the last few years.

August 25, 2020, 6:00am Life

If you want to build a fire, you need three things: Ignition, fuel and oxygen. But wildfire in California is a much more complex people-stoked witch’s brew. Read story

Rich spew more carbon pollution

August 18, 2020, 6:06am Life

Rich Americans produce nearly 25 percent more heat-trapping gases than poorer people at home, according to a comprehensive study of U.S. residential carbon footprints. Read story

This undated photo provided by the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in July 2020 shows an adult male pygmy hog in India. Pygmy hogs are among the few mammals -- and the only pig -- that build elaborate nests out of dried grass to live in families of four and five year around.

World’s smallest and rarest wild pigs in virus lockdown

This undated photo provided by the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in July 2020 shows an adult male pygmy hog in India. Pygmy hogs are among the few mammals -- and the only pig -- that build elaborate nests out of dried grass to live in families of four and five year around.

August 18, 2020, 6:00am Life

Pygmy hogs — the world’s smallest and rarest wild pig — are under a virus lockdown. Read story

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 23, 2019, file photo, female northern white rhinos Fatu, right, and Najin, left, the last two northern white rhinos on the planet, are fed some carrots by a ranger in their enclosure at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, in Kenya. Although scientists have long focused on the world&#039;s predators, a massive new study finds that herbivores, critters that eat plants, are the animals most at risk of extinction. A bit more than one in four species of herbivores are considered threatened, endangered or vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the world&#039;s scientific authority on extinction risk, according to a study published Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020, in the journal Science Advances.

Herbivores most at risk for extinction

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 23, 2019, file photo, female northern white rhinos Fatu, right, and Najin, left, the last two northern white rhinos on the planet, are fed some carrots by a ranger in their enclosure at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, in Kenya. Although scientists have long focused on the world&#039;s predators, a massive new study finds that herbivores, critters that eat plants, are the animals most at risk of extinction. A bit more than one in four species of herbivores are considered threatened, endangered or vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the world&#039;s scientific authority on extinction risk, according to a study published Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020, in the journal Science Advances.

August 11, 2020, 6:05am Life

Although scientists often worry most about the loss of the world’s predators, a comprehensive new study finds that plant-eating herbivores are the animals most at risk of extinction. Read story