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'Omnivorous engine' hopes to run on many fuels
Sep 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The 'omnivorous engine' is no picky eater. Gasoline? Down the hatch. Ethanol? Butanol? It'll slurp those up too. The creators of the omnivorous engine, engineers at the U.S. Department of ...
Cave bears from the Carpathians as omnivorous as modern bears
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 07, 2008 |
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Rather than being gentle giants, new research reveals that Pleistocene cave bears, a species which became extinct 20,000 years ago, ate both plants and animals and competed for food with the other contemporary ...
New insights into the physiology of cockroaches
Nov 13, 2009 |
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A study by scientists from the University of Valencia sheds new light on how the cockroach organism works. A research team from the Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, led by professors Amparo ...
Prehistoric bears also ate everything and anything
Apr 09, 2009 |
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By comparing the craniodental morphology of modern bear species to that of two extinct species, researchers from the University of Málaga, Spain, have discovered that the expired plantigrades were not so different ...
Like sweets? You're more like a fruit fly than you think
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Mar 17, 2008 |
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According to researchers at the Monell Center, fruit flies are more like humans in their responses to many sweet tastes than are almost any other species.
New handbook for Google, Droid users
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Before buying one of the new Google-powered "Droid" phones from Verizon Wireless, you may want to read the manual. Not the setup directions in the box.
Turtles are loyal in feeding as well as in breeding
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Apr 25, 2007 |
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A research team led by the Dr Annette Broderick of the University of Exeter’s School of Biosciences has discovered that, after laying their eggs, sea turtles travel hundreds of miles to feed at exactly the same sites. The ...
Smithsonian's National Zoo researchers use electronic eggs to help save threatened species
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Jul 27, 2007 |
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This is an important summer for kori bustards at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. Four chicks of this threatened African bird have hatched in June and July. Along with the bumper crop of baby birds is a bumper ...
Big predatory mammals such as felines need between 5 and 7 different types of prey to meet their dietary needs
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Jul 11, 2008 |
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Faced with earlier studies stating that the big predators such as tigers, lions, and lynxes fulfil their dietary needs by eating one or two types of prey, scientists from the University of Malaga assure us ...
Oldest Fossil Protein Sequenced
Mar 09, 2005 |
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Protein sequence from Neanderthal extracted and sequenced An international team, led by researchers at the Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, ...
Nearly 100 new species described by California Academy of Sciences in 2009
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In 2009, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 94 new relatives to our family tree. The new species include 65 arthropods, 14 plants, eight fishes, five sea slugs, one coral, and one fossil ...
Inland ants prefer salty snacks to sweet
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Oct 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ants prefer salty snacks to sugary ones, at least in inland areas that tend to be salt-poor, according to a new study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Giant Raptor Dinosaur Discovered in Utah Monument
Apr 03, 2006 |
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Scientists from the University of Utah and the Utah Museum of Natural History have discovered the remains of a new bird-like, meat-eating dinosaur in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM), southern ...
