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Ancient crocodiles could hunt and eat dinosaurs
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Crocodiles have a nasty reputation, but the leathery, snappish critters have been around so long that they probably gave dinosaurs a fright too. On Thursday, University of Chicago paleontologist Paul
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Fish 'at risk' in acidified ocean
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Clown fish reared in acidified water lost the ability to 'smell' danger Ocean acidification could cause fish to become 'fatally attracted' to their predators, according to scientists. A team studying
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Tree-eating bugs threaten Monarch butterfly in Mexico
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MORELIA, Mexico - The mysterious Monarch butterfly, which migrates en masse annually between Canada and Mexico, is now facing a new peril: another insect thriving in Western Mexican forests. Some 8,000
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Corn Genome Sequencing Complete
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Scientists will develop real world applications from knowledge. Results of the Maize Genome Sequencing Project, the first comprehensive gene map of North American Corn, will be made available to the public
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New fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles
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fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy wor-ld divided among a half-dozen species of unusual and perhaps intelligent crocodiles, researchers reported on Thursday. They
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Flax And Yellow Flowers Can Produce Bioethanol
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Surplus biomass from the production of flax shives, and generated from Brassica carinata, a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf fields in spring, can be used to produce bioethanol. This
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'Hobbits' Were a Distinct Species, Study Concludes
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FRIDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) --The ancient dwarfs known as 'hobbits' weren't humans shrunk down by disease, scientists now say, but instead, they were a distinct human species. The researchers came
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Breeding and genetic change in the Holstein genome
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The average American dairy cow produces more than 20,000 pounds of milk every year. Most of these cattle are Holsteins, a breed whose naturally high milk yield has been enhanced by decades of selective
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Botanical Whales
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OK, OK, a plant canâ??t really look a person in the eye and share its thoughts. But after a strange couple of days, Iâ??m almost ready to commune with vegetable matter. A string of wet, pinkie-tipâ??sized
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Why bird flu has not become a pandemic
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Washington, Nov 19 : A new study by American and British scientists has tried to explain why bird flu has not become a pandemic disease. The report prepared by scientists from Imperial College London,
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Study examines how viruses attack bacteria
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Washington, Nov 19 : Scientists say they are investigating how some viruses, known for attacking humans and animals, instead attack bacteria. Texas A&M University researchers say information about
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Editorials on breast cancer recommendations
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The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Friday, Nov. 20: VALUE OF MAMMOGRAPHY GUIDELINES There are many dangers inherent in the release of new recommendations against routine annual
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Kid's Astronomy: Celestial Birds Migrate West?
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Hello, Cosmic Kids! As the seasons change, not only do the Earthly birds migrate, but so do the celestial ones. In the Northern Hemisphere, it's not unusual to see large flocks of our feathered friends
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Origin of life: Generating RNA molecules in water
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A key question in the origin of biological molecules like RNA and DNA is how they first came together billions of years ago from simple precursors. Researchers in Italy have reconstructed one of the earliest
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Medical News: The Amaizing Corn Genome
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- 0:00 PST Current Article Ratings: Patient / Public: Health Professional: Article Opinions: 0 posts In recent years, scientists have decoded the DNA of humans and a menagerie of creatures but none with
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