News tagged with bite force
Studying bat skulls, evolutionary biologists discover how species evolve
A new study involving bat skulls, bite force measurements and scat samples collected by an international team of evolutionary biologists is helping to solve a nagging question of evolution: Why some groups ...
Nov 23, 2011 |
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Scientists develop method for determining diet of our early ancestors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Were our early mammalian ancestors vegetarians, vegans or omnivores? It's difficult for anthropologists to determine the diet of early mammalians because current fossil analysis provides too ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 16, 2010 |
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Engineers find inspiration for new materials in Piranha-proof armor
(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s a matchup worthy of a late-night cable movie: put a school of starving piranha and a 300-pound fish together, and who comes out the winner?
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Discovering Autism: An unsettling boom
Amber Dias couldn't be sure what was wrong with her little boy.
Dec 19, 2011 |
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Research: Bedbugs can thrive despite inbreeding
Bedbugs aren't just sleeping with you. They're sleeping with each other. Researchers now say that the creepy bugs have a special genetic gift: withstanding incest.
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Climate set to worsen food crises: Oxfam
Storms and droughts that have unleashed dangerous surges in food prices could be a "grim foretaste" of what lies ahead when climate change bites more deeply, Oxfam said on Monday.
Nov 28, 2011 |
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Ancient midges offer clues to climate variability 10,000 years ago
An analysis of the remains of ancient midges – tiny non-biting insects closely related to mosquitoes – opens a new window on the past with a detailed view of the surprising regional variability that ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2011 |
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New Cain Internet ad shines focus on viral videos
(AP) -- Before Smoking Man, there was Obama Girl. And who can forget Jib Jab?
Oct 30, 2011 |
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WHO warns of disease risk in flood-hit Thailand
Thailand's hundreds of thousands of flood victims are at risk of water-borne diseases and infections, the World Health Organisation said Saturday, though no major outbreaks have been reported yet.
Oct 22, 2011 |
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Komodo dragon has 'pussycat' bite but plenty of punch
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s largest lizard – the Komodo Dragon – has an astonishingly weak bite, but a new study has revealed that the key to its killing power is a lethal combination of poison, ...
Oct 21, 2011 |
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Malaysian Buddhists hold apple ritual for Jobs
A Buddhist temple on Malaysia's island resort of Penang has held a religious ritual in which mourners bit an apple to hasten Apple visionary Steve Jobs' reincarnation, a report said Tuesday.
Oct 18, 2011 |
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Murky future for giant Philippine crocodiles
Deep inside the Philippines' largest marshland, tribespeople who once revered crocodiles as mystical creatures say they now feel terrorised by them.
Oct 12, 2011 |
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