News articles tagged with 'extinct'
Man-made global warming started with ancient hunters
— 1 Jul 2010 09:14 | Geology and palaeontologyEven before the dawn of agriculture, people may have caused the planet to warm up, a new study suggests…
UCLA biologists report how whales have changed over 35 million years
— 29 May 2010 14:30 | Geology and palaeontologyWhales are remarkably diverse, with 84 living species of dramatically different sizes and more than 400 other species that have gone extinct, including some that lived partly on land.…
New study first to directly measure body temperatures of extinct species
— 25 May 2010 11:04 | BiologyA new study by researchers from five institutions including the University of Florida introduces the first method to directly measure body temperatures of extinct vertebrates and help…
Losing your tongue
— 2 Nov 2009 16:20 | HealthElder Tommy George has not spoken his aboriginal language of Kuku Thaypan for three years, since his brother died. 'It might die in the throat, but it stays alive in the heart,' he…
Prehistoric bears also ate everything and anything
— 8 Apr 2009 16:09 | BiologyBy comparing the craniodental morphology of modern bear species to that of two extinct species, researchers from the University of Malaga have discovered that the expired plantigrades…
Hair of Tasmanian tiger yields genes of extinct species
— 13 Jan 2009 16:12 | BiologyAll the genes that the exotic Tasmanian Tiger inherited only from its mother will be revealed by an international team of scientists in a research paper to be published on 13 January…
Giant bird faeces records pre-human New Zealand
— 12 Jan 2009 21:50 | Geology and palaeontologyA treasure trove of information about pre-human New Zealand has been found in faeces from giant extinct birds, buried beneath the floor of caves and rock shelters for thousands of years…
Aurochs was still living in the Netherlands around AD 600
— 13 Dec 2008 16:26 | Geology and palaeontologyArchaeological researchers at the University of Groningen have discovered that the aurochs, the predecessor of our present-day cow, lived in the Netherlands for longer than originally…
Researchers sequence woolly-mammoth genome
— 19 Nov 2008 19:28 | Geology and palaeontologyResearchers at Penn State are leaders of a team that is the first to report the genome-wide sequence of an extinct animal, according to Webb Miller, professor of biology and of computer…
New penguin species found in New Zealand
— 19 Nov 2008 15:50 | BiologyAustralian and New Zealand researchers have used ancient DNA from penguin fossils to make a startling discovery that may change the way we view species extinctions. A team from the…