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Avoid Inviting Termites to 'Dinner' at Your House
Mar 26, 2009 |
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It is the nightmare of many a homeowner: Termites merrily eating away at the family castle.
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10 percent of world's major species at threat: report
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Almost 10 percent of the world's mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish are in danger of extinction due to climate change and other factors, according to an Australian report released Tuesday.
Earliest evidence for reptiles
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Oct 17, 2007 |
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Newly discovered fossilised footprints provide the earliest evidence yet for the evolution of reptiles – a major event in the history of life. They are 315 million years old, making reptiles up to 3 million ...
Why solitary reptiles lay eggs in communal nests
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Reptiles are not known to be the most social of creatures. But when it comes to laying eggs, female reptiles can be remarkably communal, often laying their eggs in the nests of other females. New research in the September ...
Flying frog among 353 new Himalayan species: WWF
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Over 350 new species including the world's smallest deer, a "flying frog" and a 100 million-year old gecko have been discovered in the Eastern Himalayas, a biological treasure trove now threatened by climate ...
Timber harvest impacts amphibians differently during life stages
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Frogs are croaking in clear-cut forests, but not exactly in their traditional manner. University of Missouri researchers found that removing all of the trees from a section of the forest had a negative effect ...
The first gene-encoded amphibian toxin isolated
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Researchers in China have discovered the first protein-based toxin in an amphibian -a 60 amino acid neurotoxin found in the skin of a Chinese tree frog. This finding may help shed more light into both the ...
Climate change hastens extinction in Madagascar's reptiles and amphibians
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Jun 09, 2008 |
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New research from the American Museum of Natural History provides the first detailed study showing that global warming forces species to move up tropical mountains as their habitats shift upward. Christopher Raxworthy, Associate ...
Study Confirms Amphibians' Ability to Predict Changes in Biodiversity
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Oct 28, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists have long suspected that amphibians, whose moist permeable skins make them susceptible to slight changes in the environment, might be good bellwethers for impending alterations ...
Killer fungus threatening amphibians
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Amphibians like frogs and toads have existed for 360 million years and survived when the dinosaurs didn't, but a new aquatic fungus is threatening to make many of them extinct, according to an article in the ...
Recovering from a mass extinction
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Jan 18, 2008 |
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[B]The full recovery of ecological systems, following the most devastating extinction event of all time, took at least 30 million years, according to new research from the University of Bristol[/B] The ful ...
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