News tagged with jungle
Jungle yeast
May 21, 2009 |
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A new species of yeast has been discovered deep in the Amazon jungle. In a paper published on-line in FEMS Yeast Research, IFR scientists and colleagues from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuado ...
2 rare elephants found dead in Indonesian jungle
May 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Two rare Sumatran elephants believed to have been poisoned with cyanide-laced pineapples were found dead in the jungles of northwestern Indonesia with their tusks removed, a conservationist said.
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Darwin was wrong about the wild origin of the chicken
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Feb 29, 2008 |
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Charles Darwin maintained that the domesticated chicken derives from the red jungle fowl, but new research from Uppsala University now shows that the wild origins of the chicken are more complicated than that.
Google refines searches for pictures and news
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Google on Monday unveiled software tools that let people search the Internet using pictures or chronologically organize results of queries for news.
Malaysia tracks orangutans with implants
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Malaysian wildlife authorities are using electronic implants to keep track of orangutans in a bid to protect the endangered apes after they are freed into the wild, an official said Tuesday.
3D Model Reveals Secrets of Metastasis
Jul 12, 2006 |
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A cancer cell breaks away from a primary tumor and settles in a new location, where it once again divides. Pharmaceutical companies typically use simplistic two-dimensional assays for this process, which is known as metastasis, ...
Amber fossils reveal ancient France was a jungle
Jan 07, 2008 |
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Research on a treasure trove of amber has yielded evidence that France once was covered by a dense tropical rainforest with trees similar to those found in the modern-day Amazon. The report on 55-million-year-old ...
Study says eyes evolved for X-Ray vision
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Aug 28, 2008 |
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The advantage of using two eyes to see the world around us has long been associated solely with our capacity to see in 3-D. Now, a new study from a scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has uncovered ...
Orangutans struggle to survive as palm oil booms
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Cinta, a baby orangutan found lost and alone in a vast Borneo palm oil plantation, now clings to a tree at a sanctuary for the great apes, staring intently at dozens of tourists.
Studying volcanoes with balloons
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2008 |
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People do all kinds of crazy things in Hawaii, but flying balloons over a volcano usually isn't one of them. Unless you're Adam Durant, that is.
Study reveals how Disney's conservation messages have kept us wild at heart
Mar 25, 2008 |
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Loveable family entertainment they may be, but when it comes to environmental awareness, Disney films have rarely been seen as contributing much more than a clutch of cuddly talking animals to the cause.
Malaysian officials save endangered Malayan tiger
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Malaysian wildlife authorities rescued a five-year old Malayan tiger, badly injured in a snare set up by poachers near the country's jungle border with Thailand, officials said Monday.
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