News tagged with tasmanian tiger
Two rhino species bite the dust: Red List
Several species of rhino have been poached into extinction or to the point of no return, according to an update of the Red List of Threatened Species, the gold standard for animal and plant conservation.
Nov 10, 2011 |
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Tasmanian tiger's jaw was too small to attack sheep, study shows
Australia's iconic thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, was hunted to death in the early Twentieth century for allegedly killing sheep; however, a new study published in the Zoological Society of London's Journal of ...
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Hair of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes of Extinct Species
All the genes that the exotic Tasmanian Tiger inherited only from its mother will be revealed by an international team of scientists in a research paper to be published on 13 January 2009 in the online edition ...
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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Can we save the tiger with mathematics?
Turning to mathematics to allow us to make smarter conservation decisions.
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Thylacine hunting behavior: Case of crying wolf?
Its head and body looked like a dog, yet its striped coat was cat-like. It carried its young in a pouch, like a kangaroo. No wonder the thylacine — the enigmatic, iconic creature of Australia and Tasmania ...
May 04, 2011 |
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Pouched killers not poor cousins of carnivores
(PhysOrg.com) -- Marsupial predators are not the poor cousins of the carnivore world, as has long been thought: new research shows that they have been just as diverse as placental carnivores over time.
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Nov 24, 2010 |
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Climate change hits southeast Australia fish species
Scientists are reporting significant changes in the distribution of coastal fish species in south-east Australia which they say are partly due to climate change.
Sep 28, 2010 |
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'Extinct' Aussie frog rediscovered
An Australian frog which disappeared nearly 40 years ago and was feared extinct has been rediscovered in a remote creek, astounding experts.
Mar 04, 2010 |
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Mammoth Achievement: Researchers at the forefront of molecular biology
Forget Jurassic Park. By successfully sequencing the DNA of a long-extinct species, Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller have helped push back the boundaries of molecular biology.
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Death by hyperdisease: DNA detective work explains the extinction of Christmas Island's native rats
It took less than a decade for native rats to become extinct on the Indian Ocean's previously uninhabited Christmas Island once Eurasian black rats jumped ship onto the island at the turn of the 20th century. ...
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Nov 05, 2008 |
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Researchers change focus on threatened species
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland-led research is suggesting new ways to protect threatened species. Professor Hugh Possingham, director of UQ's Ecology Centre, and colleagues from the French National ...
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Oct 29, 2008 |
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World first discovery -- genes from extinct Tasmanian tiger function in a mouse
Researchers from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Texas, USA, have extracted genes from the extinct Tasmanian tiger (thylacine), inserted it into a mouse and observed a biological ...
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May 20, 2008 |
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Tassie tiger no match for dingo
The wily dingo out-competed the much larger marsupial thylacine by being better built anatomically to resist the “mechanical stresses” associated with killing large prey, say Australian scientists.
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Sep 05, 2007 |
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