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A Best Friend of Humanity: The African Giant Pouched Rat
Nov 25, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The African Giant Pouched Rats, Cricetomys gambianus have been trained to methodically sniff out land mines in war-torn regions of Africa. Apopo International based in Antwerp, Belgium is ...
Fossil Discovery Turns Scientific Theory on Its Head
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 18, 2006 |
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An international team led by University of Adelaide palaeontologist Trevor Worthy has discovered a unique, primitive type of land mammal that lived at least 16 million years ago on New Zealand.
Living fossil still calls Australia home
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Mar 26, 2008 |
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They are separated by a vast ocean and by millions of years, but tiny prehistoric bones found on an Australian farm have been directly linked to a strange and secretive little animal that lives today in the southern rainforests ...
Tiny bones rewrite textbooks
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Small but remarkable fossils found in New Zealand will prompt a major rewrite of prehistory textbooks, showing for the first time that the so-called "land of birds" was once home to mammals as well.
Naming evolution's winners and losers
Jul 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mammals and many species of birds and fish are among evolution's "winners," while crocodiles, alligators and a reptile cousin of snakes known as the tuatara are among the losers, according ...
