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  Dietary Flexibility May Have Helped Some Large Predators Survive After Last Ice Age

  May 8, 2013 — During the late Pleistocene, a diverse assemblage of large-bodied mammals inhabited the "mammoth steppe" of northern Eurasia and Beringia. Of the large predators -- wolves, bears, and big cats -- ... > full story
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  Singing Humpback Whales Tracked on Northwest Atlantic Feeding Ground

  April 29, 2013 — Male humpback whales sing complex songs in tropical waters during the winter breeding season, but they also sing at higher latitudes at other times of the year. NOAA researchers have provided the ... > full story
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  Fish Was on the Menu for Early Flying Dinosaur

  April 22, 2013 — New research reveals that Microraptor, a small flying dinosaur, was a complete hunter -- able to swoop down and pick up ... > full story
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  Rats' and Bats' Brains Work Differently on the Move

  April 18, 2013 — A new study of brain rhythms in bats and rats challenges a widely-used model -- based on rodent studies -- of how animals navigate their environment. To get a clearer picture of processes in the ... > full story
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  Sea Mammals Find U.S. Safe Harbor

  April 11, 2013 — New research shows that many US marine mammal populations -- especially some seals and sea lions -- have rebounded since 1972, because of the Marine Mammal Protection ... > full story
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  Moa's Ark: Why the Female Giant Moa Was About Twice the Size of the Male

  April 9, 2013 — The evolutionary reason for the massive difference in size between male and female giant moa -- the extinct giant birds of New Zealand -- has been revealed for the first ... > full story
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  Dwarf Whale Survived Well Into Ice Age

  April 4, 2013 — Research detailing the fossil of a dwarf baleen whale from Northern California reveals that it avoided extinction far longer than previously ... > full story
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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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