News tagged with tortoises
Extinct may not be forever for some species of Galapagos tortoises
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Sep 23, 2008 |
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Yale scientists report that genetic traces of extinct species of Galapagos tortoises exist in descendants now living in the wild, a finding that could spur breeding programs to restore the species, The report ...
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Florida to stop allowing tortoise kills
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Jun 15, 2007 |
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Florida will no longer issue permits allowing developers to bury gopher tortoises alive.
Madagascar's tortoises are crawling toward extinction, groups say
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Feb 07, 2008 |
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Madagascar’s turtles and tortoises, which rank among the most endangered reptiles on earth, will continue to crawl steadily toward extinction unless major conservation measure are enacted, according to a recent ...
Florida city tries to save rare tortoises
Dec 29, 2005 |
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The city of Minneola wants developers to try to save rare tortoises before buying permits to kill them.
Seed dispersal in mauritius -- dead as a dodo?
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May 07, 2008 |
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Walking through the last rainforests on the volcanic island of Mauritius, located some 800 km east of Madagascar, one is surrounded by ghosts. Since human colonisation in the 17th century, the island has lost most of its ...
Scientist turns tortoises into spies
Nov 09, 2005 |
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A Russian scientist has reportedly discovered a way to turn tortoises into biological robots and train them for defense purposes, Russia's NTV news.
Lonesome George may not be so lonesome after all
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May 02, 2007 |
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A Macquarie University scientist has helped prove that Lonesome George, named by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's rarest living creature may in fact have relatives living nearby.
Skeleton of 12,000-year-old shaman discovered buried with leopard, 50 tortoises and human foot
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 05, 2008 |
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The skeleton of a 12,000 year-old Natufian Shaman has been discovered in northern Israel by archaeologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The burial is described as being accompanied by "exceptional" ...
Ancient mother spawns new insight on reptile reproduction
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Aug 27, 2008 |
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A 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant turtle and a nest of fossilized eggs that were discovered in the badlands of southeastern Alberta by scientists and staff from the University of Calgary and the Royal Tyrrell Museum ...
Man versus goats in Galapagos
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May 01, 2007 |
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Grants from private donors and the United Nations are helping rangers at the Galapagos National Park in Ecuador turn the tide of the war against goats.
Small islands given short shrift in assembling archaeological record
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Oct 30, 2008 |
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Small islands dwarf large ones in archaeological importance, says a University of Florida researcher, who found that people who settled the Caribbean before Christopher Columbus preferred more minute pieces of land because ...
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