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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.
Plague of kangaroos threatens one of Australia's last remaining original native grasslands
May 21, 2008 |
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Australian Department of Defence is currently culling hundreds of kangaroos on the outskirts of the capital Canberra that have produced heated discussions and hit international headlines. Australia's iconic ...
Genetic riddle solved by kangaroo and platypus
Nov 01, 2006 |
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Australian scientists have unravelled a mystery of the origins of two debilitating human genetic diseases by studying the kangaroo and platypus genome.
Lessons learned from drought deaths 40,000 years ago
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Nov 27, 2006 |
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Drought-stricken Australia should heed a warning from a new study that shows a series of massive droughts killed giant kangaroos and other "megafauna" in south-east Queensland 40,000 years ago, according to ...
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.
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 ...
New evidence implicates humans in prehistoric animal extinctions
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Aug 11, 2008 |
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Research led by UK and Australian scientists sheds new light on the role that our ancestors played in the extinction of Australia's prehistoric animals. The study, published this week in the journal Proceedings of ...
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.
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 ...
New Fossil Find in New Mexico Named After Artist Georgia O'Keeffe
Feb 10, 2006 |
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Two Columbia scientists have discovered the fossil of a toothless crocodile relative that looks like a six-foot-long, two-legged dinosaur, but is actually a distant cousin of today's alligators and crocodiles.
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