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7-Foot NBA Center Wins eBay Auction to Name Shrimp Species | Wired Science | Wired.comA shrimp that lives on southwest coast of Australia has a new name, thanks to an Australian graduate student, eBay and former NBA basketball player Luc Longley. It all started when Anna McCallum, now a doctoral student at the University of Melbourne, discovered a previously unknown shrimp while ...
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New Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction - NYTimes.comNew Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction Whenever modern humans reached a new continent in the expansion from their African homeland 50,000 years ago, whether Australia, Europe or the Americas, all the large fauna quickly disappeared. This circumstantial evidence from the fossil ...
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Secret Math of Fly Eyes Could Overhaul Robot Vision | Wired Science | Wired.comBy turning the brain cell activity underlying fly eyesight into mathematical equations, researchers have found an ultra-efficient method for pulling motion patterns from raw visual data. Though they built the system, the researchers don’t quite understand how it works. But however mysterious ...
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Exploring Australia's Green Cauldron | Stuff.co.nzExploring Australia's Green Cauldron LIVE SHOW: Cockatoos are just one of the many "exhibits"at the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary's Green Cauldron Experience - which shows off animals native to the nearby ancient volcano site. Australia His beak is about as long as my finger and I'm fairly ...
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Animal Kingdom's Greatest Survivors | WebEcoistPhysical power, sharp teeth, and speed are characteristics of some of the most fearsome creatures in the animal kingdom. However, there are other animals who survive because they are physically tough and able to adapt to difficult situations with ease. There are many unlikely animals that are ...
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A Reporter at Large: The Sixth Extinction?: Reporting & Essays: The New YorkerABSTRACT: A REPORTER AT LARGE about the sixth mass extinction. Describes how graduate student Karen Lips observed the mysterious disappearance of large numbers of local golden frogs, in the nineteen-nineties, at several locations in Panama and Costa Rica. Whatever was killing Lips’s frogs moved ...
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NOVA | Bone Diggers | Australia's Vanished Beasts image 6 | PBSAustralia's Vanished Beasts Giant Goanna Megalania prisca You would not want to have run into a hungry giant goanna. For one thing, its kind was huge: experts have estimated that the largest M. prisca for which there is some fossil evidence was 23 feet long and weighed about 1,350 pounds. ...
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Australia’s ancient super lizard Megalania was venomous - Digital Journal: Your News NetworkMegalania was the biggest of the monitors. In Australia, the goanna is one of its little relatives, and it's usually the size of a border collie, when full grown, although a known living relative of Megalania, the Perente, is somewhat bigger. The Komodo Dragon is a sort of quarter size version. ...
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Giant lizards pack venomous bite › News in Science (ABC Science)Giant lizards pack venomous bite The extinct giant lizard Megalania may have been the largest venomous animal to have roamed the earth, according to a new study. The claim, by an international team led by Australian researchers, appears in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National ...
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How Seahorses Evolved to Swim "Standing Up"How Seahorses Evolved to Swim "Standing Up" May 22, 2009 Seahorses are master mimics that use their cryptic colors and upright posture to blend in with plants. When and why the animals developed these unusual characteristics has been a mystery—until now, scientists say. Tiny brittle ...
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