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• calgary zoo- various exhibits

  
  The Tyrannosaur Chronicles — Authority: 123
  this is the last of my tour posts about the calgary zoo . not that ive done a good job covering the whole place mind you. in fact, im embarrassed to say, this is the worst review ive done (and ive covered a lot of museums, aquariums, and museums here before!)... though i have a good excuse as youll see ...
  2 days ago

• A story I wanted to hear first thing this morning.

  
  Funny Emails — Authority: 144
  DWARF GOAT MORE REPTILE THAN MAMMAL: An extinct goat from the island of Majorca lived like a cold-blooded crocodile.What had bones like a crocodile and grew like a crocodile, but was a goat? The answer, according to a new study, was the now-extinct Myotragus, also known as “mouse goat.”The tiny goat, which stood ...
  4 days ago

• Save The Dolphins

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  There were five stranded white-beaked dolphins that become stranded on the isle of Grimsay in the Outer Hebrides. These dolphins were saved and re-floated by local volunteers in the Outer Hebrides. The mammals were first spotted close to shore in Kenary Bay on the south coast of the island by a local resident ...
  4 days ago

• Cold-Blooded Extinct Goat Discovered

  
  Discoveries In Science — Authority: 116
  When is a mammal really a reptile? When it is a Myotragus balearicus, of course! Although extinct, the discovery of a goat that was cold-blooded is a very interesting find. Myotragus balearicus lived on a Mediterranean island (now Majorca), with scarce resources, so they did what all good reptiles do – they ...
  4 days ago

• NYT killing blog headline option for the home page—plus the Gray Lady on smart phones vs. dedicated e-readers

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  The New York Times is mysteriously killing the wonderful “Extra” option, which, if you turn it on, will turbo-charge the home page with blog headlines blended in with news stories. December 1 is when the option will vanish. Without offering an explanation, a home-page notice directs readers to the  Blogrunner ...
  4 days ago

• Prehistoric goat lived like a reptile on Spanish island

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Washington, November 18 (ANI): A new study has determined that a prehistoric goat on a Spanish island survived for millennia on a resource-poor island by living like a reptile, changing its growth rate and metabolism to match the available food supply.Fossils of the ancient goat, called Myotragus, were first found on ...
  5 days ago

• Cold-blooded Goats?

  
  Evolving Complexity — Authority: 421
  The fossil remains of a prehistoric goat-like artiodactyl that once lived on Mediteranean islands over 1.5 million years ago provides evidence of how some large mammals may have survived in resource-poor ecosystems. Myotragus, a Plio-Pleistocene bovid from the Balearic Islands off the eastern coast of Spain have a ...
  5 days ago

• calgary zoo- australia

  
  The Tyrannosaur Chronicles — Authority: 123
  i wont be covering the whole zoo. due to distracting circumstances (next post) i only visited and took photos of about half the zoo. though this saddens me a little, i at least had seen all the missed sections before. however i do one more section of the zoo i have good photo coverage of. that is the australian ...
  5 days ago

• Taming of the Shrew

  
  GVI Kenya — Authority: 417
  For about a year now we’ve been experimenting with a method of trapping the elusive and shy Zanj elephant shrew.  This particular shrew is technically a sengi, and is a species that is not only endemic to the east African coast, but is also listed as ‘rare’ and ‘data deficient’ by the IUCN.  Shimoni ...
  5 days ago

• Random House and Dan Brown, Bebook mini e-reader review, Murdoch’s Google silliness, and ‘the copyright time bomb’

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Here are some stories that do not quite make full-fledged TeleRead posts in and of themselves, but are interesting nonetheless: * Crain’s New York Business has a short piece on September 2009 e-book sales at Random House seeing a dramatic 700 perent increase over the same period in 2008—largely due to Dan ...
  6 days ago

• Wolves rode icebergs to travel to Falkland Islands, say biologists

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Washington, November 16 (ANI): A team of biologists has solved the mystery contemplated by Charles Darwin in 1835 about how a wolf-like species got on the Falkland Islands, determining that it might have come to the islands on icebergs.When Charles Darwin visited the Falkland Islands during the voyage of the Beagle in ...
  6 days ago

• calgary zoo- african rainforest

  
  The Tyrannosaur Chronicles — Authority: 123
  wrapping up the calgary zoo s african complex, we hit the transalta rain forest centre. right away in the front entrance they have some cool reptile displays. such as this rather fancy chameleon. id look as smug as him if my skin could change colour like his! there was one case though, i ...
  1 week ago

• Conservation Scholars: Georgina Mace

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 412
  The Conservation Scholars series highlights leaders in conservation science and includes a small biography, a list of major scientific publications and a Q & A on each person’s particular area of expertise. Our fifteenth Conservation Scholar is a real stalwart in conservation science and its applications – ...
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• calgary zoo- african savannah

  
  The Tyrannosaur Chronicles — Authority: 123
  onward and upward through the calgary zoo we go! our next stop is one of the several buildings of the african complex of the zoo. this first one houses some of the coolest african animals around... this is the central "lobby" as it were. you get a great view of the giraffes, from across that really big ...
  1 week ago

• MODIFEST This Weekend!

  
  ElectricMustache - Indie Rock Blog — Authority: 435
  Well as some or all or none of you may know Modifest is this weekend. What is Modifest you ask? Its three days of awesome local bands playing at the soon to be "different" Modified Arts all for charity. This really is a "whos who" of the Phoenix scene. Every night is jam packed with tasty goodness and only costs $5 ...
  1 week ago

• Should the New York Times ditch its sports section?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  How many people read the New York Times for its sports coverage? Time to drop the section? The newspaper itself has brought up but shrugged off the possibility , saying it wouldn’t save enough and would lessen the NYT’s quality. Over at the Marginal Revolution blog, Tyler Coven wonders if the Times ...
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• The Best Stick In The World

  
  Akira The Don — Authority: 139
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• Water vole sightings double

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  The UK’s fastest declining mammal the water vole is making a return to the nations waterways. Read the original post: Water vole sightings double Please Share or Bookmark this post
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• Dreams as Anticipation for the State of Being Awake

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 129
  "It helps explain a lot of things, like why people forget so many dreams," Dr. Hobson said in an interview. "Its like jogging; the body doesnt remember every step, but it knows it has exercised. It has been tuned up.
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• porpoise

  
  AIndiaNews.com — Authority: 162
  Scientists: dolphins killing porpoises on CA coast Marine biologists be credulous they count on found the delinquent clout attacks on porpoises off the California coast: dolphins. Scientists stash the nonprofit conservation garner Okeanis say they captured video of a cluster of bottlenose dolphins attacking and for ...
  1 week ago

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