Proto-mammals survived ancient global warming in Antarctica
Flight from tropics saved egg-laying furless cat Fossil-probing boffins say they have found evidence that early mammal-like creatures survived a severe episode of global warming 252 million...
The Register,
Thu Dec 03 02:24:25 PST 2009
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Russia lags in arming sea mammals
A Russian scientist has complained that Russia has fallen behind the US in the race to arm sea mammals.
BigPond News,
Tue Dec 01 07:44:45 PST 2009
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Montgomery Animal Adoption for Dec. 3, 2009
Montgomery County Humane Society has hundreds of dogs, cats, small mammals, birds, reptiles and livestock available for adoption at the Montgomery County Animal Shelter, 14645 Rothgeb Dr., ...
Washington Post,
Wed Dec 02 21:00:00 PST 2009
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Ancient Animals Fled to Antarctica to Escape Warming
Find out how one distant ancestor of mammals beat the heat during one of the world's worst mass extinctions.
Animal Planet,
Thu Dec 03 04:15:39 PST 2009
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Sperm genes could explain why women live longer
Genes in sperm may determine why female mammals live longer than males, according to a Japanese study published on Wednesday in Human Reproduction, a European journal.
AFP via Yahoo! News,
Wed Dec 02 08:14:51 PST 2009
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Sperm Gene May Cause Men's Longevity Disadvantage
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Sperm genes may affect life span in humans and other mammals and could help explain why females tend to live longer than males, Japanese scientists say...
HealthDay via Yahoo! News,
Wed Dec 02 06:03:04 PST 2009
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Why Females Live Longer Than Males: Is It Due To The Father's Sperm?
Researchers in Japan have found that female mice produced by using genetic material from two mothers but no father live significantly longer than mice with the normal mix of maternal and pa...
Medical News Today,
Thu Dec 03 03:41:36 PST 2009
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Antarctica served as climatic refuge in Earth's greatest extinction event
( Field Museum ) A new fossil species suggests that some land animals may have survived the end-Permian extinction by living in cooler climates in Antarctica. Researchers have identified a ...
EurekAlert!,
Wed Dec 02 15:27:47 PST 2009
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Sperm genes may explain lifespan - study
GENES in sperm may determine why female mammals live longer than males, according to a Japanese study.
Adelaide Now,
Wed Dec 02 12:59:14 PST 2009
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Why women live longer
PARIS - GENES in sperm may determine why female mammals live longer than males, according to a Japanese study published on Wednesday in Human Reproduction, a European journal. Tokyo Univers...
Straits Times,
Wed Dec 02 16:52:14 PST 2009
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Climate change threatens life in Shishmaref, Alaska
When the arctic winds howl and angry waves pummel the shore of this Inupiat Eskimo village, Shelton and Clara Kokeok fear that their house, already at the edge of the Earth, finally may plu...
CNN,
Thu Dec 03 06:09:17 PST 2009
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Sperm genes show women live longer
Genes in sperm may determine why female mammals live longer than males.
BigPond News,
Wed Dec 02 11:14:44 PST 2009
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Grooving down the helix
Scientists from the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Harvard University, and the Indian Institute of Science has made a major step in understanding how molecules lo...
EurekAlert!,
Thu Dec 03 06:43:02 PST 2009
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Blue whale songs are getting deeper, say baffled scientists
Scientists have discovered blue whales are singing in deeper voices every year - and they are not sure why.
Daily Mail: World News,
Thu Dec 03 06:20:23 PST 2009
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Grooving down the helix: Researchers show how proteins slide along DNA to carry ou...
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists has made a major step in understanding how molecules locate the genetic information in DNA that is necessary to carry out important biological processe...
PhysOrg,
Thu Dec 03 06:12:36 PST 2009
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The buzz on fruit flies: New role in the search for addiction treatments
Fruit flies may seem like unlikely heroes in the battle against drug abuse, but new research suggests that these insects - already used to study dozens of human disease - could claim that r...
PhysOrg,
Thu Dec 03 05:42:26 PST 2009
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Antarctica was climate refuge during great extinction
Animals fled to Antarctica to escape global warming, suggests a fossil study
New Scientist,
Thu Dec 03 05:17:44 PST 2009
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The Species That Domesticated Itself [Laelaps]
The skull of Paranthropus boisei ("Zinj," "Dear Boy," "Nutcracker Man," etc.). Louis Leakey had a problem. During the summer of 1959 he and his wife Mary recovered the skull fragments of an...
ScienceBlogs,
Tue Dec 01 15:32:49 PST 2009
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CULTURE : Why Women Live So Much Longer than Men
In the battle of the sexes, women have always played the ultimate long game
Kompas,
Wed Dec 02 22:15:15 PST 2009
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