News tagged with natural history
Researchers take virus-tracking software worldwide
A biomedical informatics researcher who tracks dangerous viruses as they spread around the globe has restructured his innovative tracking software to promote even wider use of the program around the world.
May 22, 2012 |
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Thousands of birds found dead on Chile beaches
About 2,000 birds were found dead on beaches in central Chile, a natural history museum director said Friday, accusing fishermen of snagging them in their nets and letting them drown.
May 12, 2012 |
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Mini-mammoths lived on Crete: scientists (w/ Video)
(Phys.org) -- The smallest mammoth known to have ever lived has been identified by Natural History Museum scientists, and is reported in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B today.
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May 09, 2012 |
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Re-evaluation of Wulagasaurus indicates Basal Hadrosaurine dinosaurs originated in Asia
Several hundred disarticulated bones have been recovered from a large dinosaur quarry of the Upper Cretaceous Yuliangzi Formation at the base of the Wulaga outcrop of Heilongjiang Province near the Sino-Russian ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 07, 2012 |
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Were dinosaurs undergoing long-term decline before mass extinction?
Despite years of intensive research about the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs about 65.5 million years ago, a fundamental question remains: were dinosaurs already undergoing a long-term decline before an ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 01, 2012 |
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Science fair winner publishes new study on butterfly foraging behavior
University of Florida lepidopterist Andrei Sourakov has spent his life's work studying moths and butterflies. But it was his teenage daughter, Alexandra, who led research on how color impacts butterflies' feeding patterns.
Apr 30, 2012 |
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Ammonites found mini oases at ancient methane seeps
Research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History shows that ammonites—an extinct type of shelled mollusk that's closely related to modern-day nautiluses and squids—made homes ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2012 |
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Analytical standards needed for 'reading' Pliocene bones
Researchers studying human origins should develop standards for determining whether markings on fossil bones were made by stone tools or by biting animals, Indiana University faculty member Jackson Njau writes ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Diversification of land plants
Researchers have reconstructed phylogenetic relationships among all 706 families of land plants.
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Warm and fuzzy T. rex? New evidence surprises
The discovery of a giant meat-eating dinosaur sporting a downy coat has some scientists reimagining the look of Tyrannosaurus rex.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Preventing home invasions means fighting side-by-side for coral-dwelling crabs and shrimp
As any comic book lover knows, when superheroes band together the bad guys fall harder. The strength that comes in numbers is greater than the sum of its parts.
Mar 30, 2012 |
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Creatures from the deep surface in NY exhibit
They have their own lights, teeth, and weird names like vampire squid, stoplight loosejaws, and bristlemouth -- meet the weird denizens of the deep surfacing for an exhibition in New York starting this week.
Mar 28, 2012 |
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DNA traces cattle back to a small herd domesticated around 10,500 years ago
All cattle are descended from as few as 80 animals that were domesticated from wild ox in the Near East some 10,500 years ago, according to a new genetic study.
Mar 27, 2012 |
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The pterodactyl that researchers forgot
(PhysOrg.com) -- An ancient fragment of a skull from a 125 million year old flying reptile has been re-interpreted to redefine how the creature lived.
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Mar 26, 2012 |
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Oldest US natural history museum offers rare peek
(AP) -- The Academy of Natural Sciences has never been one to brag. Its 225,000 annual visitors may associate the nation's oldest natural history museum solely with dioramas and dinosaurs, but behind the ...
Mar 24, 2012 |
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