News tagged with migration route
Baby whale's first breath caught on camera off Australia
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Australian scientists have photographed a humpback whale helping a newborn calf take what appears to be its first breath, a rare event described as the "Holy Grail" for whale-watchers.
Blue whales returning to former Alaska waters
May 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Blue whales are returning to Alaska in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say.
Scientists reveal family tree of 'super-sized lions'
Mar 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The giant cats that roamed the British Isles, as well as Europe and North America, as recently as 13,000 years ago were lions rather than giant jaguars or tigers, a team led by Oxford University ...
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6,000km trip to reveal clues to ancient migration
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Nov 06, 2008 |
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Two Durham University scientists are to play a key part in a 6000km trip following the migration route of ancient Pacific cultures.
Migratory route of Eleonora's falcon revealed for first time
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Satellite tracking has allowed a research team to uncover the mysteries of the migration of Eleanora's falcon for the first time. In total, the bird flies more than 9,500 kilometres across the African continent ...
Seabird's ocean lifestyle revealed
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Jan 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An important British seabird has been tracked for the first time using miniature positioning loggers. The results are giving a team led by Oxford University zoologists information that could ...
Environmental setting of human migrations in the circum-Pacific Region
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Oct 10, 2007 |
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A new study by Kevin Pope of Geo Eco Arc Research and John Terrell of The Field Museum adds insight into the migration of anatomically modern humans out of Africa and into Asia less than 100,000 years before present (BP).
Mummy lice found in Peru may give new clues about human migration
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Feb 07, 2008 |
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Lice from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru may unravel important clues about a different sort of passage: the migration patterns of America’s earliest humans, a new University of Florida study suggests.
Australian population growth fastest for 50 years: data
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Australia's population grew at its fastest rate in 50 years in the 12 months to March thanks to a surge in migrant numbers, official figures showed Tuesday.
Gene study supports single main migration across Bering Strait
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Nov 26, 2007 |
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Did a relatively small number of people from Siberia who trekked across a Bering Strait land bridge some 12,000 years ago give rise to the native peoples of North and South America?
Zebrafish enable scientists to study the migration of neurons that enable sexual maturity
Jun 05, 2008 |
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Scientists are watching a small group of neurons that enable sexual maturity and fertility make a critical journey: from where they form, near the developing nose, to deep inside the brain.
New route to leukemia uncovered
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a completely new route by which leukaemia develops, according to research published in Nature this weekend.
Research confirms theory that all modern humans descended from the same small group of people
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May 08, 2007 |
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Researchers have produced new DNA evidence that almost certainly confirms the theory that all modern humans have a common ancestry.
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