News tagged with platypus
Why sleep? Scientist delves into one of science's great mysteries
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bats, birds, box turtles, humans and many other animals share at least one thing in common: They sleep. Humans, in fact, spend roughly one-third of their lives asleep, but sleep researchers still don't know ...
New insights into Australia's unique platypus
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New insights into the biology of the platypus and echidna have been published, providing a collection of unique research data about the world's only monotremes.
Platypus link to ovarian cancer
Jun 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Royal Adelaide Hospital and University of Adelaide believe our oldest mammalian relative may help us to better understand ovarian cancer.
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Uni leads study on echidna sex life
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Aug 22, 2007 |
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A University of Adelaide-led project will study the genetic makeup of one of Australia's most iconic animals, the echidna, to give an unprecedented insight into their sex life and behaviour.
Platypus genome explains animal's peculiar features; holds clues to evolution of mammals
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May 07, 2008 |
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The duck-billed platypus: part bird, part reptile, part mammal -- and the genome to prove it. An international consortium of scientists, led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has decoded ...
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.
Small furry animal lived with dinosaurs
Jan 12, 2006 |
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The fossil of a small, furry insect-eating animal that walked like a platypus has been found in China.
Male sex chromosome losing genes by rapid evolution, study reveals
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Scientists have long suspected that the sex chromosome that only males carry is deteriorating and could disappear entirely within a few million years, but until now, no one has understood the evolutionary ...
80-million-year-old fossil found in Japan
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 15, 2007 |
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The skull of a platypus-like dinosaur estimated to be more than 80 million years old has been discovered on a Japanese mountaintop near the town of Mifune.
Australian marsupials challenge gene theory
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Apr 30, 2007 |
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Scientists studying the kangaroo genome have cast doubt on the credentials of a gene thought to be crucial to the process of inactivating one sex chromosome in women.
Fossil shows mammals diversified earlier
Feb 25, 2006 |
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A fossil from 164 million years ago, found in China, shows that mammals diversified much earlier than thought, even in an age dominated by dinosaurs.
Researchers find new mode of gene regulation in mammals
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Jul 09, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have discovered a type of gene regulation never before observed in mammals--a "ribozyme" that controls the activity of an important family of genes ...
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 ...
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