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  Risk to Endangered Whales from Ships in Southern California Analyzed in New Study

  March 25, 2013 — Researchers have identified areas off southern California with high numbers of whales and assessed their risk from potentially deadly collisions with commercial ship ... > full story
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  Kangaroos and Other Marsupials: Climb to the Pouch Begins in Utero

  March 15, 2013 — Scientists have visualized the short pregnancy of a small species of the kangaroo and wallaby family of marsupials, the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii), for the first time by high-resolution ... > full story
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  Siberian Fossil Revealed to Be One of the Oldest Known Domestic Dogs

  March 6, 2013 — Analysis of DNA extracted from a fossil tooth recovered in southern Siberia confirms that the tooth belonged to one of the oldest known ancestors of the modern ... > full story
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  Handedness in Marsupials Is Dependent on Gender, Research Shows

  March 5, 2013 — Boys are right-handed, girls are left ... Well at least this is true for sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps) and grey short-tailed opossums (Monodelphis domestica). New research shows that handedness ... > full story
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  New Fossils of Crocodilian, Hippo-Like Species from Panama

  March 5, 2013 — Paleontologists have discovered remarkably well-preserved fossils of two crocodilians and a mammal previously unknown to science during recent Panama Canal excavations that began in ... > full story

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  Remains of Extinct Giant Camel Discovered in High Arctic

  March 5, 2013 — Remains of an extinct giant camel have been discovered on Ellesmere Island in Canada's High Arctic. The evidence collected is from 30 fragments of a leg bone, dating to about three-and-a-half million ... > full story
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  Ancient DNA Solves 320-Year-Old Mystery: Origins of Now Extinct Falkland Islands Wolf

  March 5, 2013 — Researchers have found the answer to one of natural history's most intriguing puzzles -- the origins of the now extinct Falkland Islands wolf and how it came to be the only land-based mammal on the ... > full story
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  'True Grit' Erodes Assumptions About Evolution of Earth's First Grasslands

  March 4, 2013 — New work in Argentina where scientists had previously thought Earth's first grasslands emerged 38 million years ago, shows the area at the time covered with tropical forests rich with palms, bamboos ... > full story
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  Reducing Numbers of One Carnivore Species Indirectly Leads to Extinction of Others

  February 28, 2013 — Previous studies have shown that carnivores can have indirect positive effects on each other, which means that when one species is lost, others could soon follow. Biologists have now found that ... > full story
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  How the Whale Got Its Teeth: Scientists Explore Development of Unique Dentition of 'Toothed Whales'

  February 19, 2013 — Whales are mammals, but they don't look like the mammals living around us, as they have a triangular fluke for tail, no hind legs and no body hair. And inside their mouths, their teeth are unfamiliar ... > full story

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