A group that rescues farm animals is pleading with President Obama to spare them from a fate they believe is almost as as cruel as having their heads chopped off - sending them to live at a Disney theme park.

Since 2005…

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Scientists have found petroleum-feasting worms, primitive animals that flap their ears to swim and other strange, new creatures dwelling in the deepest part of the ocean.

As part of a marine life census, an international consortium of scientists…

People with longer toes and a unique ankle structure that allows for quicker acceleration make better sprinters, according to biomechanists.

Penn State scientists analyzed the feet of 12 collegiate sprinters and 12 non-athletes of similar heights. They measured the distance between the…

Patterson and his kill

PaThe legendary man-eating lions of Tsavo rumored to have killed more than 130 railroad workers in Africa more than a century ago likely only ate about 35 people, according to new research.

That’s nothing to sneeze at, but the…

Mark Templeton

Yesterday, EcoSpeak was forwarded an email from Department of Natural Resources Director Mark Templeton announcing the promotion of two long-time employees. What the memo didn’t say was that three other DNR employees were terminated that created the vacancies the…

Korean scientists have discovered that pumpkin skin contains a substance that inhibits growth of microbes that cause yeast infections in adults and children.

In the study, the scientists note how some disease-causing microbes are becoming resistant to antibiotics. As a result,…

Foresters with the Missouri Department of Conservation today confirmed that a shingle oak discovered by some University of Missouri-St. Louis students is the biggest of its kind in its state.

Now officially a Missouri State Champion Big Tree, the 114-foot-tall shingle…

A study that analyzed 85,000 teeth collected from St. Louis children in the 1960’s shows that male donors who died of cancer as adults had more than double the amount of a radioactive isotope created by nuclear fallout than healthy…

A study that looked at attitudes toward owning and driving Hummers found that most drivers see themselves as “rugged individuals” and that they see the colossal vehicles as a symbol of America’s “boundless frontier.”

The study, conducted by researchers from Austria, Toronto…

A federal judge in Montana has sided with environmentalists and restored federal protection for about 600 grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park.

In 2007, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared the Yellowstone bears had recovered from a population decline and…