News tagged with hippopotamus
One in six Mediterranean mammals face extinction
Sep 15, 2009 |
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One in six Mediterranean mammals is threatened with extinction at the regional level, mainly due to the destruction of their habitat from urbanization, agriculture and climate change, nature body IUCN said ...
Dinosaurs May Have Been Smaller Than We Thought: New Study
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For millions of years, dinosaurs have been considered the largest creatures ever to walk on land. While they still maintain this status, a new study suggests that some dinosaurs may actually have weighed ...
Hippo's island life helps explain dwarf hobbit (w/Video)
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 07, 2009 |
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Ancient Madagascan hippos have shed light on the origins of the small brain of the 1-metre-tall human, known as the hobbit, scientists at the Natural History Museum report in the journal Nature today.
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Rare pygmy hippos photographed
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Mar 11, 2008 |
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British conservationists have captured photographs of two extremely rare pygmy hippos living in the wild in Liberia.
Hippos are being decimated in the DR Congo
Nov 15, 2005 |
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The world's largest hippopotamus population is being destroyed in the Democratic Republic of Congo and it's being done by poachers using weapons of war.
List of threatened species still growing
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May 02, 2006 |
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A major Swiss conservation organization says an increasing number of species are being are threatened by extinction.
DR Congo hippos face extinction
Sep 13, 2005 |
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Hippopotamuses living in the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo reportedly are facing extinction.
Psychologists show experience may be the best teacher for infants
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There's a lot of truth in the old proverb "experience is the best teacher," and apparently it even applies to 10-month-old infants.
Study finds most wars occur in Earth's richest biological regions
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Feb 20, 2009 |
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In a startling result, a new study published by the scientific journal Conservation Biology found that more than 80 percent of the world's major armed conflicts from 1950-2000 occurred in regions identified as the ...
Missing Link Between Whales and Four-Footed Ancestors Discovered
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Dec 19, 2007 |
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Scientists have discovered the missing link between whales and their four-footed ancestors. The result is reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature. The research is funded by the National Scienc ...
Scientists find missing link between the whale and its closest relative, the hippo
Jan 25, 2005 |
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For those not yet convinced that hippos and whales are first cousins, a UC Berkeley researcher has the definitive proof. A group of four-footed mammals that flourished worldwide for 40 million years and the ...
Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan
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Jun 12, 2007 |
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Aerial surveys by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society confirm the existence of more than 1.2 million white-eared kob, tiang antelope and Mongalla gazelle in Southern Sudan, where wildlife was thought to have ...
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