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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 ...
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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 ...
Food choices and location influence California sea otter exposure to disease
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Jan 19, 2009 |
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Sea otters living along the central California coast risk higher exposure to disease-causing parasites as a consequence of the food they eat and where they feed.
Scientists find 'redesigned hammer' that forged evolution of pregnancy in mammals
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Sep 18, 2008 |
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Yale researchers have shown that the origin and evolution of the placenta and uterus in mammals is associated with evolutionary changes in a single regulatory protein, according to a report in Proceedings of ...
Road losses add up, taxing amphibians and other animals
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Apr 16, 2008 |
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When frogs hit the road, many croak. Researchers found more than 65 animal species killed along a short stretch of roads in a Midwestern county. Nearly 95 percent of the total dead were frogs and other amphibians, ...
Primitive early relative of armadillos helps rewrite evolutionary family tree
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Dec 12, 2007 |
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A team of U.S. and Chilean scientists working high in the Andes have discovered the fossilized remains of an extinct, tank-like mammal they conclude was a primitive relative of today’s armadillos. The results of their surprising ...
Appendix isn't useless at all: It's a safe house for bacteria
Oct 08, 2007 |
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Long denigrated as vestigial or useless, the appendix now appears to have a reason to be – as a “safe house” for the beneficial bacteria living in the human gut.
Researchers publish first marsupial genome sequence
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May 09, 2007 |
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An international team, led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and supported by the National Institutes of Health , today announced the publication of the first genome of a marsupial, ...
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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