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Ladyboy lizards use transvestite trickery: researchers
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Young male lizards in South Africa imitate females to fool aggressive older males into leaving them alone, in an example of transvestism in the natural world, researchers have found.
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Scientists: New dinosaur species found in SAfrica
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Scientists say they've discovered a new dinosaur species in South Africa that may help explain how the creatures evolved into the largest animals on land.
Scientist says Taung Child killed by bird
Jan 13, 2006 |
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A U.S. paleontologist working in South Africa says he has unraveled what the cause of death was for the first ape-man fossil discovered in Africa.
Cesarean section: Local anesthetic reduces need for painkillers post-op
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Giving a local anaesthetic during a Caesarean section helps manage pain after the operation and can reduce consumption of painkillers, according to Cochrane Researchers. The researchers recommend local anaesthetics as part ...
Why Are Galaxies So Smooth?
May 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered streams of young stars flowing from their natal cocoons in distant galaxies. These distant rivers ...
Scientists Find Lamprey a 'Living Fossil' -- 360 Million-year-old Fish Hasn't Evolved Much
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Scientists from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the University of Chicago have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved fossil lamprey from the Devonian period that reveals today’s lampreys ...
Micronesian Islands colonized by small-bodied humans
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Mar 10, 2008 |
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Since the reporting of the so-called “hobbit” fossil from the island of Flores in Indonesia, debate has raged as to whether these remains are of modern humans (Homo sapiens), reduced, for some reason, in stature, or whether ...
Landmark study defines benefits of early HIV testing and treatment for infected infants
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 19, 2008 |
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Testing very young babies for HIV and giving antiretroviral therapy (ART) immediately to those found infected with the virus dramatically prevents illness and death, according to a report in the New England Journal of Me ...
Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts, apparently without life of any kind, at least on the surface. Worse still, it looks like Mars has been cold and dry for billions of years, ...
Busted! Astronomers Nab Culprit in Galactic Hit-and-Run
Oct 18, 2006 |
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The Andromeda galaxy, the closest large spiral to the Milky Way, appears calm and tranquil as it wheels through space. But appearances can be deceiving. Astronomers have new evidence that Andromeda was involved ...
Bone parts don't add up to conclusion of Palauan dwarfs
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Aug 27, 2008 |
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Misinterpreted fragments of leg bones, teeth and brow ridges found in Palau appear to be an archaeologist's undoing, according to researchers at three institutions. They say that the so-called dwarfs of these ...
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