A species of giant two-humped camel, Camelus knoblochi, is known to have lived for approximately a quarter of a million years in Central Asia. A new study in Frontiers in Earth Science shows that C. knoblochi's last refuge ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 24, 2022
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A tiny rodent trims tall grasses so it can watch the skies for flying predators, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2022
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Flowering plants (angiosperms) dominate most terrestrial ecosystems, providing the bulk of human food. However, their origin has been a mystery since the earliest days of evolutionary thought.
Plants & Animals
May 26, 2021
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Although dairy pastoralism once made Mongolian steppe herders successful enough to conquer most of Asia and Europe, the origins of this way of life on the East Asian steppe are still unclear. Now an international team of ...
Archaeology
Nov 5, 2018
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The extreme wet and dry periods Mongolia has experienced in the late 20th and early 21st centuries are rare but not unprecedented and future droughts may be no worse, according to an international research team that includes ...
Environment
Mar 14, 2018
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(Phys.org)—A combined team of American and Chinese researchers has found evidence that suggests that parts of Inner Mongolia that were thought to have been desert for a million years, might have actually dried up just over ...
Around 165 million years ago, a spectacular parasite was at home in the freshwater lakes of present-day Inner Mongolia (China): A fly larva with a thorax formed entirely like a sucking plate. With it, the animal could adhere ...
Archaeology
Jun 24, 2014
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Arsenic-laden groundwater used for cooking and drinking could pose a risk to the health of almost 20 million people across China. This is shown by a study carried out by Eawag scientists in collaboration with Chinese colleagues ...
Environment
Aug 22, 2013
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Just as wealthy nations like the United States are outsourcing their dangerous carbon dioxide emissions to China, rich coastal provinces in that country are outsourcing emissions to poorer provinces in the interior, according ...
Environment
Jun 10, 2013
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For more than a decade, scientists have dismissed claims that examining carbon-rich rocks could yield clues to the atmospheric and oceanic conditions on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, but now researchers at Harvard ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2012
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