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Bird-Eating Frog Among 163 New Species Found in Mekong Region
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PinkMindy
- 59 days ago - cnn.com
A frog that eats birds and a gecko with leopard stripes are among the 163 new species discovered last year in the Greater Mekong region of southeast Asia, according to a report by the World Wildlife Fund.
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Why Don't Hibernating Bears Get Osteoporosis?
Science & Tech  (tags: AnimalWelfare, animals, animalwelfare, environment, habitat, humans, protection, wildanimals, habitat, nature, Sustainabililty, wildlife, concept, environment, habitat, health, interesting, news, science, scientists, research, world )

Wolfweeps
- 213 days ago - gi.alaska.edu
Bears have the right idea. Don't fight the cold; just shut 'er down for six months and emerge when it's warmer. Why didn't we think of that? For one thing, our bones would wither. We'd all get osteoporosis, a disease in which bones become more fragile.
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Saber-Toothed Cat Unearthed in Venezuela
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, environment, conservation, protection, habitat, wildanimals, ethics, research, interesting, investigation, discovery, archaeology, ancient )

Suzybell
- 469 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
Venezuela has found the first fossils of an extinct scimitar cat -- of the saber-toothed cat genus -- in South America, during oil prospecting activities southeast of Caracas, paleontologists announced."It's South America's most important discovery in 60
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International Wolf Center - Modern Wolf's Distant Cousin - Dire Wolf(Canis Dirus)
Science & Tech  (tags: wildlife, environment, wildanimals, interesting, unusual, animals, nature, ancient, archaeology, discovery, design, research, interesting, study, environment, habitat, science, world )

Thunderr
- 524 days ago - wolf.org
Anyone who wants wants to learn about wolves has a wealth of knowledge at their fingertips,print,video etc.,but the premodern history of the wolf is less accessible.Dire Wolf,the modern wolf's most well known prehistoric relative lived during the Pleistoc
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Vampire Squid, Vampyroteuthis Infernalis -"Vampire Squid From Hell"
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Thunderr
- 533 days ago - marinebio.com
The only known member of the Order Vampyromorphida.Named for it's blue eyes it has reddish brown skin and webbing between the arms which number 8,it also has 2 long filaments that can extend well past the body length and can retract.There are 2 fins on>>
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Other Apes Like a Cooked Meal, Too
Science & Tech  (tags: primates, apes, AnimalWelfare, animals, animaladvocates, animalwelfare, humans, investigation, wildanimals, wildanimals, wildlife, discovery, study )

Jacquelin
- 539 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
Freshly cooked meals may not be an option in the wild, but an extensive taste test involving several great apes has revealed that, like humans, they seem to prefer cooked foods over raw.
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New Family Of Gecko Discovered
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Thunderr
- 550 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Researchers at the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum of Natural History and Pennsylvania's Villanova University have discovered a new family of gecko, the charismatic large-eyed lizard popularized by car insurance commercials.Scientists have long been
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For Good Or Ill, Ireland Gains Another Mammal Species - Greater White Toothed Shrew
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Thunderr
- 576 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Dave Tosh,from the School of Biological Sciences at Queens University,found the greater white-toothed shrew in Tipperary and Limerick while working with University College Cork and BirdWatch Ireland.Its natural range is in parts of Africa,France,Germany>>
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Minds of Their Own: Animals Are Smarter Than You Think
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Jacquelin
- 586 days ago - ngm.nationalgeographic.com
Bit by bit, in ingenious experiments, researchers have documented these talents in other species, gradually chipping away at what we thought made human beings distinctive while offering a glimpse of where our own abilities came from.
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Fist Ever...Massive Study of Madagascar Wildlife Released
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, climate, conservation, ecosystems, endangered, environment, globalwarming, habitat, humans, nature, pollution, protection, research, science, suffering, Sustainabililty, water, wildlife, world, design, ecosystems, garden, green, greenliving, heal )

Susan
- 593 days ago - newswise.com
The study is unprecedented in terms of not only the number of species examined (some 2,315 species in six groups), but also because of the project's scale and resolution.
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Boys Will Be Boys, Even Among Monkeys
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Jacquelin
- 595 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
So a team of scientists led by Kim Wallen of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia decided to offer typical "male" and "female" toys to rhesus monkeys to see if preferences aligned with sex.
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Hovering Bats Stay Aloft Using Swirling Vortices
Science & Tech  (tags: bats, hovering, vortices, wildanimals, wildlife, investigation, discovery, research, study, science )

John
- 632 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 2008) -- Honey bees and hummingbirds can hover like helicopters for minutes at a time, sucking the juice from their favorite blossoms while staying aloft in a swirl of vortices.
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Amur Leopard Cub Goes Outside for First Time
Science & Tech  (tags: Amur Leopards, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, animalrights, animals, cats, endangered, extinction, goodnews, habitat, humans, protection, rescued, wildanimals, wildlife )

Brendan
- 634 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A rare Amur leopard cub has finally ventured out into the world at a British zoo today.
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Snakes Locate Prey Through Vibration Waves
Science & Tech  (tags: snakes, vibration, prey, wildanimals, wildlife, research, science, interesting, discovery )

John
- 639 days ago - sciencedaily.com
It is often believed that snakes cannot hear. This presumption is fed by the fact that snakes lack an outer ear and that scientific evidence of snakes responding to sound is scarce. Snakes do, however, possess an inner ear with a functional cochlea.
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Tropical Fish Can Live for Months Out of Water
Science & Tech  (tags: tropical fish, wildanimals, land, water )

Eduardo
- 741 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
A tropical fish that lives in mangrove swamps across the Americas can survive out of water for months at a time, similar to how animals adapted to land millions of years ago. When their habitat dries up, they live on the land in logs.
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