News tagged with hippos
Hippo ancestry disputed: Researchers rebut family tree involving hippos, whales and pigs
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Hippos spend lots of time in the water and now it turns out (or researchers argue), they are the closest living relative to whales. It also turns out, the two are swimming in a bit of controversy.
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Getting a leg up on whale and dolphin evolution
Sep 24, 2009 |
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When the ancestors of living cetaceans—whales, dolphins and porpoises—first dipped their toes into water, a series of evolutionary changes were sparked that ultimately nestled these swimming mammals into the ...
Figurines of Aphrodite from the era of the Roman Empire discovered in Hippos
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 14, 2009 |
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A 1,500-year-old treasure: Three figurines of Aphrodite, goddess of love, hidden during the era of the Roman Empire's transition to Christianity, discovered in Hippos (Sussita) *During the tenth season of ...
Kenya's hippos hard hit by drought
Aug 30, 2009 |
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Kenya's persistent and bruising drought is having a serious impact on the country's wildlife, one of its main tourist attractions, obliging the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to feed hippos to keep them alive.
Hippo's island life helps explain dwarf hobbit (w/Video)
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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.
Memory mission explores new territory in neuroscience
Nov 21, 2008 |
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Astrophysicists peer into the far corners of deep space for dark matter, but for neuroscientists at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) exploring the unknown is much closer to home.
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.
Roman footprint found in ancient city
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Aug 27, 2007 |
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Archaeologists in Israel said they've discovered a footprint from the sandal of a Roman soldier during an excavation of the ancient city of Hippos.
Size doesn't matter: island mammals 'dwarfed' by lack of competitors and predators
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Sep 25, 2006 |
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The evolution of miniature or 'dwarf' versions of animals like elephants and hippos on islands is caused by lack of competition for food and the absence of predators, and not just because they are too large ...
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.
Study: Past global warming altered forests
Nov 11, 2005 |
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The concept of Pennsylvania palmettos and magnolias in Minnesota may not be too far-fetched in view of research by a University of Florida paleontologist.
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