After experiencing several political upheavals and natural disasters, Liberia is now facing another kind of problem, this time a biological invader.   Small but highly destructive armyworms have made their way to several Liberian farms, and are munching away happily at the crops.   The peasant farmers of Liberia – most of that country’s population – are wringing their hands in despair at seeing their lush crops being eaten away.

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If everything goes right, the modern world will be able to see what a mammoth looked like in its real flesh and bones.   A fossil unearthed in the northern Yakutsk region in Russia in 2003 has attained fame as the best-preserved remains of the animal so far.  This has given enough grist to Russian scientists to work in collaboration with Japanese scientists to attempt to clone the animal.   The fossil mainly contains the legs of the mammoth in a well-preserved condition.  The cloning is being attempted at the Gifu Science and Technology branch of the Kinki University in Japan. (more…)

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Why do normally harmless desert locusts suddenly become aggressive and cause widespread destruction in farms?   The answer has now been obtained, and the discovery has excited the animal control world. (more…)