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Roos have less impact on the environment: study
May 17, 2009 |
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A comparative study of the energy requirements of kangaroos and sheep has concluded roos have far less impact on the environment than once thought.
Global warming threatens Australia's iconic kangaroos
Oct 15, 2008 |
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As concerns about the effects of global warming continue to mount, a new study published in the December issue of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology finds that an increase in average temperature of only two degrees Celsiu ...
Australian kangaroo cull prompts outrage
Oct 02, 2009 |
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The culling of some 140 kangaroos on one of Australia's most famous race car tracks prompted outrage Friday from environmentalists and animal rights activists.
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Kangaroos may hold skin cancer cure: study
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Kangaroos may provide the key to a potential treatment to prevent skin cancer, Australian scientists said Monday.
Discovery of the oldest European marsupial
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Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of one of the oldest known marsupials have been recovered in Charente-Maritime by a palaeontologist team from the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (CNRS, France) and the ...
Naming evolution's winners and losers
Jul 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mammals and many species of birds and fish are among evolution's "winners," while crocodiles, alligators and a reptile cousin of snakes known as the tuatara are among the losers, according ...
Bringing Girls and Boys to Computer Science with 'Alice'
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Duke University computer scientist Susan Rodger is hoping ice skaters, cute animals and fearsome dragons will bring new talent to her field.
Peek into kangaroo's pouch shows 2 tiny pink joeys
Apr 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A zookeeper's efforts to earn a kangaroo's trust has paid off with a video showing twin joeys, tiny and pink, growing inside their mom's pouch.
Faced with global warming, can wilderness remain natural?
Apr 13, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Papua New Guinea declares first national conservation area
Mar 03, 2009 |
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The southeast Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea, home to some of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth, has created its first national conservation area to preserve forever a swath of pristine tropical forest ...
Farmers harness manure's gases to generate power
Feb 16, 2009 |
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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.
Hair of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes of Extinct Species
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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All the genes that the exotic Tasmanian Tiger inherited only from its mother will be revealed by an international team of scientists in a research paper to be published on 13 January 2009 in the online edition ...
Australian first: Kangaroo genome mapped
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Nov 18, 2008 |
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Australian researchers will today launch the world first detailed map of the kangaroo genome, completing the first phase of the kangaroo genomics project.
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