News tagged with giant kangaroo
Early humans caused extinction of Australia's giant animals
(PhysOrg.com) -- The mass extinction of Australia's giant animals, such as huge kangaroos and rhinoceros-sized wombats, might have been more rapid than previously thought, according to new research from the ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 28, 2010 |
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Lost World Found in Papua New Guinea Volcano
(PhysOrg.com) -- A BBC expedition exploring inside the crater of an extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has discovered a lost world of dozens of weird new species and rare animals, including new frogs, ...
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Australia -- land of the koala, kangaroo... and elephant
Elephants and maybe rhinoceroses could be introduced to Australia to chomp on an invasive African grass that also causes wildfires, according to an idea reported in a scientific journal on Wednesday.
Feb 01, 2012 |
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500 million-year-old super predator had remarkable vision
South Australian Museum and University of Adelaide scientists working on fossils from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, have found eyes belonging to a giant 500 million-year-old marine predator that sat at ...
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Dec 07, 2011 |
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Hundreds of plants, animals up for new protections
(AP) -- The Obama administration is taking steps to extend new federal protections to a list of imperiled animals and plants that reads like a manifest for Noah's Ark - from the melodic golden-winged warbler ...
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Plan to build giant solar farm in Calif. comes before judge
A proposal to build one of the world's largest solar farms south of Silicon Valley had its day in court Monday as a long-simmering battle between the San Francisco Bay Area investors supporting the project and environmentalists ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 09, 2011 |
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Giant prehistoric marsupial found in Northern Australia
(PhysOrg.com) -- In what paleontologists are describing as a major find, researchers have dug up the remains of a creature that lived some 50,000 to two million years ago. The diprotodon (Diprotodon optatum) as it' ...
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Jul 05, 2011 |
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New evidence links humans to megafauna demise
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new scientific paper co-authored by a University of Adelaide researcher reports strong evidence that humans, not climate change, caused the demise of Australia's megafauna -- giant marsupials, ...
Jan 21, 2010 |
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Faced with global warming, can wilderness remain natural?
(PhysOrg.com) -- For those who think of nature as a wild, unspoiled Eden that preserves the natural flora and fauna free from human interference, global warming has a nasty surprise in store, according to ...
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Scientists explore hormone evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research techniques on animals living in the wild are helping scientists test long-held ideas about the role of hormones in survival, according to comments by Professor of Biology Jan ...
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Farmers harness manure's gases to generate power
Where others see simply manure, Danny Kluthe smells money. Long before President Barack Obama promised the country that "we will harness the sun and the winds and the soil," Kluthe already had yoked the power of pig poop.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 16, 2009 |
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Counting kangaroo rats from space
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Carrizo Plain National Monument in south-central California is the largest single native grassland remaining in the state. One of its denizens is a small creature known as the giant kangaroo ...
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Sep 18, 2008 |
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