Biology
Early Elephant ‘Was Amphibious’
by Science Daily
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The scientists were investigating the lifestyle of two early elephants (proboscideans) Moeritherium and Barytherium that lived in the Eocene period, over 37 million years ago. By analysing isotopes in tooth enamel from Moeritherium they were able to deduce that it was very likely a semi-aquatic mammal, spending its […]
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First Lungless Frog Found
by John Roach - National Geographic News
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The first recorded species of frog that breathes without lungs has been found in a clear, cold-water stream on the island of Borneo in Indonesia.
The frog, named Barbourula kalimantanensis, gets all its oxygen through its skin.
“Nobody knew about the lunglessness before […]
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‘Extinct’ Elephant May Have Been Found Again — on a Different Island
by ScienceBlog.com
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The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to the island of Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race – accidentally saved from extinction by the Sultan of Sulu centuries ago, suggests an article co-authored by World Wildlife Fund […]
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Tall Tales: Giant Squid
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by Hayley Birch
Are the oceans hiding monsters of epic proportions? And will they survive long enough for us to track them down?
FirstScience - Hemmed in on all sides by two metre-long, tentacled sea demons, Scott Cassell must have thought he’d breathed his last…
30 minutes later he emerged from what would have been his […]
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