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| 343 MILLION YEARS OF PRIMATE AND CARNIVORE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY AT RISK |
| Washington, D.C. – Scientists have discovered that the greatest concentration of all primate and carnivore evolutionary history exists within those species found only in the 25 biodiversity hotspots. These species – whose combined evolutionary ages total 343 million years – represent genetic lineages that are vital to the future diversity, evolution and survival of these animals according a collaborative study published by the Center for Applied Biodiversity Science (CABS) at Conservation International and biologists from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville in the Feb. 19 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). |
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| FLYING HIGH |
| What do the hawkmoth, the fruit fly, and the bird-wrasse fish all have in common? Over millions of years, each of these animals seems to have figured out how to achieve high-lift in their respective medium…. quickly, and with more stability and less heave, pitch, yaw, torque, drag and cavitation than man-made machines have yet been able to approach. |
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| MIGRATING EELS GIVE CLUES TO POLLUTION |
| The unusual life cycle of the long-finned eel could turn out to be a valuable pollution monitoring tool, Australian researchers have found.
The ear bones of the eels, like those of other fish, show growth rings like those of a tree. Called 'otoliths', the bones can be analysed to indicate changes in the surrounding water going back in time. |
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| BOY SHARKS ROAM WHILE GIRLS STAY AT HOME |
| Neale, the great white shark being tracked by Australian marine biologists, may stray far from the Australian coastline, according to new international research. It suggests that male great white sharks wander the oceans, while their female mates ‘stay at home’. |
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| UNKNOWN POPULATION OF A FISH LIVED ABOUT 360 YEARS AGO HAS BEEN FOUND NEAR THE INDONESIAN ISLAND SULAWESI |
| This sensational discovery can be compared by its importance with the discovery of the latimery, another analogous sort of the ancient Crossopterygii fish, which had previously been considered as extinct. The newly-found fish relates to this type.
These not numerous large (up to 1.8 m in length) fishes, two species of which were caught by chance, are likely to exist near 18,000 Indonesian small islands. |
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