This asexuality seems to have arisen only once, yet biology recognises about 380 species of bdelloid.

ECONOMIST: Evolution

"We are hopeful that our breeding efforts will be successful this year, and we're encouraged by all the behaviors and hormonal data we've seen so far, " said Dave Wildt, head of the Center for Species Survival at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.

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Of more than 40, 000 vertebrate species on the planet, the reproductive biology of fewer than 100 (among them humans and most domestic livestock) are known in any detail.

ECONOMIST: Endangered species

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Dispersed, cooperative knowledge works in economics as it does in evolutionary biology, to accelerate advancement of the human species.

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That's despite the fact that more species have been described in the last decade than in any previous one, according to a report published online on November 15 in the Cell Press publication Current Biology that details the first comprehensive register of marine species of the world-a massive collaborative undertaking by hundreds of experts around the globe.

ENGADGET: Scientists estimate at least one third of marine species remain unknown to humans

"Introduced species are one of the principal causes of endangerment for half of endangered species, " says Daniel Simberloff, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Tennessee.

CNN: Fish tale