News tagged with american bison
Ex-Soviet military zone hosts Czech bison revival
European bison have returned to the Czech Republic after more than a century, as five animals from neighbouring Poland make their home in a former military zone occupied by the Soviets from 1968 to 1991.
Aug 08, 2011 |
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Bringing bison back to North American landscapes
The next 10 to 20 years could be extremely significant for restoring wild populations of American bison to their original range, including the Canadian Rockies; but for this to happen, more land must be made available for ...
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Diversity aided mammals' survival over deep time
When it comes to adapting to climate change, diversity is the mammal's best defense.
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Global effort launched to save turtles from extinction
The Wildlife Conservation Society announced today a new strategy that draws on all of the resources and expertise across the institution – from its Zoos and Aquarium, Global Health Program, and Global ...
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Out of Africa and Into the American Midwest
Grasses bend in the wind, their golden tips tracing arcs across fields that stretch toward the horizon. Sunwashed by a fading evening light, these reedy ballet dancers are central figures in savanna, an ecosystem ...
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Hundreds of plants, animals up for new protections
(AP) -- The Obama administration is taking steps to extend new federal protections to a list of imperiled animals and plants that reads like a manifest for Noah's Ark - from the melodic golden-winged warbler ...
Sep 29, 2011 |
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New technologies, tires reconstruct ancient bison hunts
UA researchers are looking for, among other things, how fire changed the landscape of the Northern Great Plains as ancient hunters went after big game.
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Aug 02, 2011 |
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New trash-to-treasure process turns landfill nuisance into plastic
With billions of pounds of meat and bone meal going to waste in landfills after a government ban on its use in cattle feed, scientists today described development of a process for using that so-called meat and bone meal to ...
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Bones conjure Yellowstone's ecological ghosts
By taking a closer look at animal bones scattered across the wilderness landscape, a researcher at the University of Chicago has found a powerful tool for showing how species' populations have changed over ...
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Mar 28, 2011 |
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Research offers important clues about grasshopper population explosions
Literature and films have left us with vivid images of the grasshopper plagues that devastated the Great Plains in the 1870s. Although commonly referred to as grasshoppers, the infestations were actually by ...
Feb 25, 2011 |
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One scientist's hobby: recreating the ice age
(AP) -- Wild horses have returned to northern Siberia. So have musk oxen, hairy beasts that once shared this icy land with woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Moose and reindeer are here, and may one ...
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Nov 28, 2010 |
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Researcher IDs Ice Age sloth bone in Colorado
(AP) -- Scientists excavating an Ice Age ecosystem in the resort town of Snowmass Village say they have found the first Jefferson's ground sloth ever discovered in Colorado.
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Nov 07, 2010 |
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