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Brown tree snake could mean Guam will lose more than its birds
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Aug 08, 2008 |
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In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where they have few predators. Unchecked for many years, ...
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Australia's most endangered snake might need burning
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Conserving Australia's most endangered snake might mean lighting more bush fires, ecologists have proposed.
'Vicious' Giant Python Invading Florida
Sep 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New studies suggest a 20 foot snake, the African rock python, is making its home in Florida and could soon invade the Everglades National Park.
Snakes and how they helped our big brains evolve
May 01, 2009 |
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The threat of snakes gave primates superior vision and large brains -- and fueled a critical aspect of human evolution, UC Davis anthropology professor Lynne Isbell argues in a new book.
Artificial refuges created to save the reptiles of Doņana
Nov 30, 2009 |
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The Aznalcóllar mining accident more than 11 years ago, which contaminated part of the Doņana National Park, also damaged reptile habitat there. Now a team of Spanish researchers, who have been studying ...
Researchers reveal secrets of snake flight
May 12, 2005 |
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It seems size does matters after all. But for flying snakes, smaller is better, according to University of Chicago researchers. In the May 15, 2005, issue of the Journal of Experimental Biology, scientists described the ...
Northwestern United States could face more tamarisk invasion by century's end
Sep 15, 2009 |
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If the future warming trends that scientists have projected are realized, one of the country's most aggressive exotic plants will have the potential to invade more U.S. land area, according to a new study published in the ...
Study of isolated snakes could help shed light on venom composition
Sep 16, 2009 |
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While studying a way to more safely and effectively collect snake venom, University of Florida researchers have noticed the venom delivered by an isolated population of Florida cottonmouth snakes may be changing in response ...
Northwest salmon recovery plan may include breaching dams
Sep 16, 2009 |
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In a case closely followed by environmental and business interests, a rewritten plan for restoring endangered and threatened wild salmon runs on the Columbia and Snake rivers in Washington state and Idaho includes studying ...
Carbon and oxygen in tree rings can reveal past climate information
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 03, 2009 |
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The analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes embedded in tree rings may shed new light on past climate events in the Mackenzie Delta region of northern Canada.
Book on ape evolution wins W. W. Howells Award
Sep 29, 2009 |
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For the second time, Penn State University scientists Alan Walker and Pat Shipman together have won a national book award. A book they coauthored, The Ape in the Tree, A Natural and Intellectual History of ...
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