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02/03/2012
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Endangered green turtle migration mapped
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Cruising the eastern Pacific is everyone's dream, but the green turtle, the only herbivore among the sea turtles, seems to have it made in one sense. The invaluable Gorgona National Park, not far from Galapagos, was used for the sampling of green turtles migration by snorkelling at night around the eastern reefs.
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02/03/2012
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Prince Charles calls for more sustainable fishing
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The Prince of Wales has warned that fisheries must adopt more sustainable management practices or the alarming decline in global fish stocks will worsen and could become irreversible.
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02/02/2012
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Most ancient crocodile discovered, Aegisuchus witmeri
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Crocodiles and their relatives the crocodyliforms, go back a long way. A skull has been discovered from 95 million years ago. This new species find, Aegisuchus witmeri (Shieldcroc) seems to suggest the real origin of the ancient crocodiles was the Tethys Sea between northern Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
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02/02/2012
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Speech from the brain
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Something analogous with brainwaves tells us what parts of speech are being matched by neural areas in the auditory cortex. Details of frequency can be extracted and recorded along with their fluctuations and the rhythm of syllables tripping off the tongue.
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02/02/2012
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Humpback whales singing different songs
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Humpback whales at opposite ends of the Indian Ocean are singing different songs, a study has revealed for the first time. Normally, humpbacks in the same area of the ocean sing similar themes.
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02/01/2012
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Rarest of gorillas, the Cross River gorilla, is fighting back
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In Cameroon and Nigeria, the critically-endangered Cross River gorilla (IUCN. Red List, 2008) 'Gorilla gorilla diehli' is down to 280 individuals. The sub-species of the western gorilla has been found trying to fight back against incredible odds.
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02/01/2012
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New clues to animal climate change adaption
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Mummified 30,000-year-old bison bones have been used to help scientists discover clues about how animals adapt to rapid climate change.
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02/01/2012
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Volunteers clear tiger traps in China
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Conservation volunteers have cleared 162 illegal wire snare traps left by poachers in northeast China, which are a danger to rare Amur tigers.
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01/31/2012
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Inuit insight into killer whale (Orcinus orca) predation and prey
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The prey of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the Arctic is little studied, except of course by native Inuit peoples. New research has introduced us to this Inuit science, which in this case involves their competitor for prey items, the killer whale.
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01/31/2012
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Mammal Evolution: Mouse to elephant-size in 24 million generations
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It takes 24 million generations for a mammal the size of a mouse to become as large as an elephant, but just 100,000 generations to reverse the process and reach extreme dwarfism, say scientists studying mammal evolution.
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