Search results for tasmanian tiger
Tasmanian Tiger Extinction Mystery
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Jun 27, 2007 |
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A University of Adelaide project led by zoologist Dr Jeremy Austin is investigating whether the world-fabled Tasmanian Tiger may have survived beyond its reported extinction in the late 1930s.
Hair of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes of Extinct Species
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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All the genes that the exotic Tasmanian Tiger inherited only from its mother will be revealed by an international team of scientists in a research paper to be published on 13 January 2009 in the online edition ...
World first discovery -- genes from extinct Tasmanian tiger function in a mouse
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May 20, 2008 |
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Researchers from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Texas, USA, have extracted genes from the extinct Tasmanian tiger (thylacine), inserted it into a mouse and observed a biological ...
Scientists try to save the Tasmanian devil
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Jan 29, 2008 |
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U.S. scientists are racing to save the Tasmanian devil from extinction from a unique, transmissible and rapidly spreading cancer.
Tasmanian devils face extinction
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Oct 03, 2007 |
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Australian scientists say the ongoing fight to save Tasmanian devils from extinction may be doomed.
Glow worms glimmer on cue
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Aug 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland researcher and lecturer Dr David Merritt has discovered Tasmanian cave glow-worms are energy conservationists: they switch their lights off at night-time.
Social networking study reveals threat to Tasmanian devils
Aug 19, 2009 |
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A new study into the social networks of Tasmanian devils may help prevent the further spread of an extinction-threatening disease. The research, published in Ecology Letters, has produced an intricate social ...
Cancer is threatening Tasmanian devils
Feb 01, 2006 |
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Australian scientists say a deadly facial-tumor disease threatening a carnivorous Australian marsupial known as the Tasmanian devil might be infectious.
Researchers change focus on threatened species
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Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland-led research is suggesting new ways to protect threatened species. Professor Hugh Possingham, director of UQ's Ecology Centre, and colleagues from the French National ...
Tasmania plans to eradicate red foxes
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Nov 20, 2006 |
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Tasmania plans to spend millions of dollars destroying red foxes, an animal that until recently was thought not to have spread there.
Synchrotron could help save the Tassie devil
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Sep 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Australia’s new $A200m synchrotron in Melbourne could contribute to the fight to save the Tasmanian devil from the outbreak of facial tumour disease currently decimating devil populations, ...
Study: Tasmanian Devil may face extinction
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Jun 29, 2006 |
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A rare cancer is reportedly decimating Australia's dwindling Tasmanian Devil population, ABC News reported Thursday.
Death by hyperdisease: DNA detective work explains the extinction of Christmas Island's native rats
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Nov 05, 2008 |
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It took less than a decade for native rats to become extinct on the Indian Ocean's previously uninhabited Christmas Island once Eurasian black rats jumped ship onto the island at the turn of the 20th century. ...
Wildlife faces cancer threat
Jun 24, 2009 |
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While cancer touches the lives of many humans, it is also a major threat to wild animal populations as well, according to a recent study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
Introducing Tassie's underwater robot – 'Searise'
Nov 06, 2008 |
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A miniature CSIRO submarine being used to study the health of Tasmania’s waterways has officially been named ‘Searise’.
