News tagged with mammal species
Mosquito evolution spells trouble for Galapagos wildlife
Jun 01, 2009 |
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The Galapagos giant tortoise and other iconic wildlife are facing a new threat from disease, as some of the islands' mosquitoes develop a taste for reptile blood.
Climate change driving Michigan mammals north
May 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Some Michigan mammal species are rapidly expanding their ranges northward, apparently in response to climate change, a new study shows. In the process, these historically southern species ...
Feds: Mountain-dwelling pika may need protection
May 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A tiny mammal that can't handle warm weather could become the first animal in the lower 48 states to get Endangered Species Act protection primarily because of climate change.
Researchers help save rare venomous mammal from extinction
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of Bath are working with the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust to study an endangered large shrew-like mammal that kills its prey with a venomous bite.
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Scientists find tiny new bat species: Geneva museum
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Scientists have identified a new species of bat weighing just five grammes in the Comoros island archipelago off eastern Africa, the Natural History Museum in Geneva said on Wednesday.
For good or ill Ireland gains another mammal species
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Apr 28, 2008 |
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A recent study, soon to be published in Mammal Review, details the discovery of a mammal which has never been seen before in Ireland. The shrew, which has been spotted in Tipperary and Limerick, is only t ...
Family feuds -- why close relatives keep their distance in the animal kingdom
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May 28, 2008 |
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Mammals cannot share their habitat with closely related species because the need for the same kind of food and shelter would lead them to compete to the death, according to new research out today in Proceedings of ...
One in six Mediterranean mammals face extinction
Sep 15, 2009 |
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One in six Mediterranean mammals is threatened with extinction at the regional level, mainly due to the destruction of their habitat from urbanization, agriculture and climate change, nature body IUCN said ...
Scientists uncover new dolphin species in Australian waters
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Nov 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Marine mammal experts have uncovered a new species of dolphin in Australian waters, challenging existing knowledge about bottlenose dolphin classifications and highlighting the country's marine biodiversity.
HIV's ancestors 'plagued first mammals'
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Sep 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The retroviruses which gave rise to HIV have been battling it out with mammal immune systems since mammals first evolved around 100 million years ago - about 85 million years earlier than ...
1 moose, 2 moose: Scientist seeks correction in number of species
Jun 13, 2009 |
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It is a misinterpretation of the application of the bedrock of scientific naming with regard to the number of moose species that Kris Hundertmark, a University of Alaska Fairbanks wildlife geneticist at the Institute of Arctic ...
Man indicted in death of Hawaiian monk seal
Aug 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A federal grand jury has indicted a 78-year-old Kauai man in the shooting death of an endangered Hawaiian monk seal in May.
New hoofed mammal fossil found
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Aug 09, 2006 |
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A U.S. paleontologist has discovered the fossils of a new hoofed South American mammal that resembled a cross between a dog and a hare.
When animals evolve on islands, size doesn't matter
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Nov 07, 2007 |
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A theory explaining the evolution of giant rodents, miniature elephants, and even miniature humans on islands has been called into questions by new research published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: ...
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