News tagged with land animals
Study shows Human Sounds may Kill Fish
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Anthropogenic, or human generated, sounds have the potential to significantly affect the lives of aquatic animals - from the individual animal’s well-being, right through to its reproduction, migration and ...
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First comprehensive 'inventory' of life in Antarctica
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Dec 01, 2008 |
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The first comprehensive "inventory" of sea and land animals around a group of Antarctic islands reveals a region that is rich in biodiversity and has more species than the Galapagos. The study provides an important benchmark ...
Early whales gave birth on land, fossil find reveals (Video)
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two newly described fossil whales---a pregnant female and a male of the same species--reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the transition from ...
Pathogenic soil bacterium is influenced by land management practices
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Researchers from Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, Australia have found that the soil bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which causes the emerging infectious disease melioidosis in humans and animals, is ass ...
Geologic Findings Undermine Theories of Permian Mass Extinction Timing
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New scientific findings by geologist Robert Gastaldo of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and colleagues call into question popular theories about the largest mass extinction in Earth's ...
Cracking the species code for plants
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Feb 17, 2009 |
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A recent article published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society searches for one or more short pieces of DNA code that could eventually be used in an automated fashion to reliably identify almost all land plant ...
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 ...
'Fishapod' reveals origins of head and neck structures of first land animals
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly exposed parts of Tiktaalik roseae--the intermediate fossil between fish and the first animals to walk out of water onto land 375 million years ago--are revealing how this major evolutionary ...
Fish food fight: Fish don't eat trees after all, says new study
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- What constitutes fish food is a matter of debate. A high-profile study a few years ago suggested that fish get almost 50 percent of their carbon from trees and leaves, evidence for a very ...
Antarctica served as climatic refuge in Earth's greatest extinction event
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 02, 2009 |
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A new fossil species suggests that some land animals may have survived the end-Permian extinction by living in cooler climates in Antarctica. Researchers have identified a distant relative of mammals that apparently survived ...
Fossil evidence of missing link in the origin of seals, sea lions, walruses found in Canadian Arctic
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Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the United States and Canada have found a fossil skeleton of a newly discovered carnivorous animal, Puijila darwini. New research suggests Puijila is a "missing link" in the ...
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