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Alligators hint at what life may have been like for dinosaurs
Apr 17, 2009 |
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During the last 540 million years, the earth's oxygen levels have fluctuated wildly. Knowing that the dinosaurs appeared around the time when oxygen levels were at their lowest at 12%, Tomasz Owerkowicz, Ruth ...
Can magnets keep crocodiles away from Florida's suburbs?
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Veteran trapper Todd Hardwick, who has hauled hundreds of alligators and crocodiles out of neighborhoods over the years, tried something strange earlier this year.
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Alabama alligators may become hunted
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May 03, 2006 |
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Alabama officials are reportedly considering establishing an alligator hunting season to combat a dramatically rising gator population.
Loyal alligators display the mating habits of birds
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Alligators display the same loyalty to their mating partners as birds reveals a study published today in Molecular Ecology. The ten-year-study by scientists from the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory reveal ...
Reintroduced Chinese alligators now multiplying in the wild in China
Jul 14, 2009 |
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The Wildlife Conservation Society announced today that critically endangered alligators in China have a new chance for survival. The WCS's Bronx Zoo, in partnership with two other North American parks and ...
More gator complaints may mean rule change
Nov 10, 2006 |
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Increased complaints about alligators encroaching on human activities prompted Florida officials to consider easing rules for trapping and killing the animals.
Alligator blood may put the bite on antibiotic-resistant infections
Apr 07, 2008 |
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Despite their reputation for deadly attacks on humans and pets, alligators are wiggling their way toward a new role as potential lifesavers in medicine, biochemists in Louisiana reported today at the 235th ...
'Vicious' Giant Python Invading Florida
Sep 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New studies suggest a 20 foot snake, the African rock python, is making its home in Florida and could soon invade the Everglades National Park.
Gene expression in alligators suggests birds have 'thumbs'
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Oct 03, 2008 |
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The latest breakthrough in a 120 year-old debate on the evolution of the bird wing was published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, October 3, by Alexander Vargas and colleagues at Yale University, the University of Wis ...
Reptiles' Muscles Move Lungs for Sneaky Maneuvers in Water
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Mar 13, 2008 |
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Without a ripple in the water, alligators dive, surface or roll sideways, even though they lack flippers or fins. University of Utah biologists discovered gators maneuver silently by using their diaphragm, ...
Researchers: No faking it, crocodile tears are real
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Oct 03, 2007 |
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When someone feigns sadness they “cry crocodile tears,” a phrase that comes from an old myth that the animals cry while eating.
Florida grapples slippery giant snake invasion
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Florida homes and swamps more used to dealing with dangerous critters like alligators now face a more foreign invader -- giant pet snakes escaped into the wild whose numbers are growing at an alarming rate.
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