News tagged with giraffe
W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback
Nov 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.
'Giraffe of the Mesozoic' Discovered
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A creature dubbed a "Giraffe of the Mesozoic" has been discovered in China. The animal, with its giraffe-like long neck and long forelimbs is the first well-preserved Early Cretaceous brachiosaurid dinosaur ...
Team shows how evolution can allow for large developmental leaps
Jul 20, 2009 |
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How evolution acts to bridge the chasm between two discrete physiological states is a question that's long puzzled scientists. Most evolutionary changes, after all, happen in tiny increments: an elephant grows a little larger, ...
Kenya's national parks not free from wildlife declines
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Long-term declines of elephants, giraffe, impala and other animals in Kenya are occurring at the same rates within the country's national parks as outside of these protected areas, according to a study released ...
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Accident kills giraffe at Ill. zoo
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Jan 21, 2008 |
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Dusti, an 11-year-old male giraffe, was found dead at the Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago, after his neck got caught in a rope.
Study: Giraffes are more than one species
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Dec 23, 2007 |
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A new study suggests there may be at least six species of giraffe in Africa, rather than one as they are currently classified.
Giraffe study may help protect the species
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Jan 29, 2007 |
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A U.S. scientist says her research into giraffe dung might hold the secret to protecting the species for years to come.
Museum receives reptile giraffe fossils
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Nov 23, 2007 |
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Bones of a 230 million-year-old "reptile giraffe" found during digs in the Alps' Besano glacier were presented at Milan's Natural History Museum.
A 3-D view of remote galaxies
Mar 10, 2009 |
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For decades, distant galaxies that emitted their light six billion years ago were no more than small specks of light on the sky. With the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in the early 1990s, astronomers ...
More evidence for new species hidden in plain sight
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Dec 21, 2007 |
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Two articles published today in the online open access journals BMC Evolutionary Biology and BMC Biology provide further evidence that we have hugely underestimated the number of species with which we share our planet. T ...
Photo reveals rare okapi survived poaching onslaught
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Sep 10, 2008 |
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A set of stripy legs in a camera trap photo snapped in an African forest indicates something to cheer about, say researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society. The legs belong to an okapi -- a rare forest ...
The cosmic dance of distant galaxies
Mar 15, 2006 |
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Studying several tens of distant galaxies, an international team of astronomers found that galaxies had the same amount of dark matter relative to stars 6 billion years ago as they have now. If confirmed, this ...
100 reasons to change the way we think about genetics
May 18, 2009 |
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For years, genes have been considered the one and only way biological traits could be passed down through generations of organisms. Not anymore.
Brain fends off distractions
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Mar 20, 2007 |
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Dutch researcher Harm Veling has demonstrated that our brains fend off distractions. If we are busy with something we suppress disrupting external influences. If we are tired, we can no longer do this.
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