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Study notes sex role reversal in species
European scientists say they know why for some animal species it's fathers rather than mothers that take care of their young -- and it's all down to numbers.
DNA helps explain Falkland Islands wolves
DNA helps explain Falkland Islands wolves
Australian researchers say DNA has helped understand the history of the now-extinct Falkland Islands wolf, the only land-based mammal on the isolated islands.
Nobel Prize for DNA find to be auctioned
Nobel Prize for DNA find to be auctioned
One of the Nobel Prize medals awarded in 1962 for the discovery of the structure of DNA will be auctioned in New York City, Heritage Auctions in Texas says.
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Man suspected of stealing artifacts
A hoard of historical artifacts and art that could be worth more than $1 million was found in a home in Canada, authorities say.
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Centuries-old 'life map' updated
Danish scientists say they've completed an update of a world map that for centuries has been the backbone of our understanding of global biodiversity.
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Tortoise Lonesome George to be embalmed
Tortoise Lonesome George to be embalmed
Lonesome George, the giant Galapagos tortoise who died on Sunday as the last of his species, will be embalmed and put on display, officials in Ecuador say.
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They took not the least notice of the shrill notes from a metal whistle, which was repeatedly sounded near them
Grunters celebrate mysteries of earthworms
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The only fact of a similar kind of which I am aware, is the constant asserted difference -- between the wolf-like Fox of East and West Falkland Islds. -- If there is the slightest foundation for these remarks the zoology of Archipelagoes -- will be well worth examining; for such facts would undermine the stability of Species
Blue Planet: Whither the warrah?
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Their numbers have rapidly decreased; they are already banished from that half of the island which lies to the eastward of the Sound. Within a very few years after these island shall have become regularly settled, in all probability this fox will be classed with the dodo, as an animal which has perished from the face of the earth
Blue Planet: Whither the warrah?
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When I recollect, the fact that from the form of the body, shape of scales & general size, the Spaniards can at once pronounce, from which Island any tortoise may have been brought, When I see these islands in sight of each other, & possessed of but a scanty stock of animals, tenanted by these bird
Blue Planet: Whither the warrah?
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Man has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of our young children, while no child has an instinctive tendency to bake, brew or write
First language gene found
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Iranian women flash the victory sign during a street celebration in Tehran, Iran on June 18, 2013. The Iranian national soccer team defeated South Korea in their 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying soccer match in Ulsan, South Korea. UPI/Maryam Rahmanian .