Animals produce methane during the digestion process - some more than others. Currently, around 20 percent of the world's methane emissions stem from ruminants. If this gas is released into the atmosphere, it aggravates the ...
Ecology
Nov 4, 2015
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University of Queensland researchers and Dreamworld staff are celebrating the birth of one of Australia's rarest species of tree kangaroo.
Plants & Animals
Aug 17, 2015
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A team of researchers with the University of Queensland in Australia has found that a group of kangaroos living along the Sunshine Coast in that country have some distinct genetic variations—they are not a separate species ...
Australian zookeepers Tuesday said they had successfully fostered an orphaned tree kangaroo with a surrogate wallaby in a rare case after its mother was crushed by a branch.
Plants & Animals
Jun 30, 2015
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Kangaroos prefer to use one of their hands over the other for everyday tasks in much the same way that humans do, with one notable difference: generally speaking, kangaroos are lefties. The finding, reported in the Cell Press ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 18, 2015
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"There she is, there she is!" In the distance beyond the outstretched finger of conservation biologist Daniel Ramp stood a rare white animal, rising slowly as her ears stiffened and eyes focused on him.
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2015
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Kangaroo social networks could provide insight into the evolution of human personality differences.
Plants & Animals
Mar 3, 2015
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Scientists have finally managed to extract DNA from Australia's extinct giant kangaroos—the mysterious marsupial megafauna that roamed Australia over 40,000 years ago.
Archaeology
Jan 14, 2015
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Large numbers of kangaroos are threatening an endangered species and are eating some lizards out of house and home, new research has found.
Plants & Animals
Dec 12, 2014
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Stopping dingo control measures such as baiting and fencing could increase net profit for cattle grazing enterprises – that's the surprising result from new University of Adelaide research.
Ecology
Dec 11, 2014
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