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• 24 mn generations for mice to grow to elephant size

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  Sydney, Jan 31 (IANS) It would take at least 24 million generations for a mouse-sized creature to evolve into something as big as an elephant.Conversely, it would require only 100,000 generations for very large creatures to regress into dwarfs, says the first ever computation of large scale evolution mammals.The ...
  23 hours ago

• Pygmy Mammoth

  
  Animal A Day! — Authority: 110
  When one thinks about Mammoths, they probably conjure up images of absolutely gigantic, hairy elephant-like mammals. The Pygmy Mammoths of the Channel Island s skew that image a bit- many were less than half the size of their mainland relatives! At some point tens of thousands of years ago, a group of Columbian ...
  3 days ago

• Sambar

  
  Animal A Day! — Authority: 110
  Rusa unicolor Meet the Sambar, one of the most widely spread Deer species in the world... and also one of the most confusing. Sambar can be found throughout South and Southeast Asia, and they have been introduced into the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. However, they vary greatly in size depending on ...
  1 week ago

• When is a PEST a Pest?

  
  ProBest's Blog — Authority: 110
  When is a PEST a Pest? The Arizona Office of Pest Management defines as “Pest” means a vertebrate or invertebrate insect, bird, mammal, organism, or a weed or plant pathogen that is in an undesirable location. So what does that mean, let’s say you have Bahia Grass growing in your driveway and that it ...
  1 week ago

• Nearly 60 Dolphins Stranded on Cape Cod

  
  Ecology Global Network — Authority: 417
  Nearly 60 dolphins have been stranded on the shores of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in recent days, leading to an emergency rescue effort led by the Marine Mammal Rescue and Research Team of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Of the 27 dolphins that were found alive, only 19 were able to be saved and ...
  1 week ago

• Nearly 7 million bats may have died from white-nose fungus – ‘Regional extinction of multiple species’

  
  Desdemona Despair: Blogging the End of the World — Authority: 123
  By Darryl Fears 17 January 2012 More than five years since the deadly white-nose fungus was first detected in a New York cave where bats hibernate, up to 6.7 million of the animals are estimated to have died in 16 states and Canada, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday. The estimate, drawn from ...
  1 week ago

• Daily Blend: Tuesday, January 17, 2012

  
  Preliator pro Causa — Authority: 120
  Bob Marshall (R-VA) My mother just argued that modern medicine is unreliable because Medieval doctors thought diseases were spread through the eyeball. Or something. (Pity me). Melbourne, FL police: That 66-year-old man with dementia we beat up attacked us! Dash-cam: No, he didn’t . (via The Agitator ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chinese Goral

  
  Animal A Day! — Authority: 110
  Central Chinese Goral at the LA Zoo While walking through the Los Angeles Zoo I was intrigued by the use of space. Its in a very hilly area, but instead of just having empty land, they used those slopes for the enclosures of animals that are right at home on them. Such was the case with the Chinese Goral, a small ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dinner With Squirrel

  
  Scott Hovind Fine Art and Unique Gifts — Authority: 114
  I went to the woods today in hopes of capturing birds or deer. In the beginning I saw an entire herd of nothing and got several photos of it. Just before I left the woods A squirrel got my attention. … Continue reading →
  2 weeks ago

• Lesser Kudu

  
  Animal A Day! — Authority: 110
  Male Lesser Kudu and Calf at the San Diego Zoo As you could probably guess, the Lesser Kudu is a smaller species of antelope when compared to the very large Greater Kudu. But like their larger relative, they too have striped bodies and large, spiraling horns that can grow up to 3ft long! Lesser Kudu are most ...
  2 weeks ago

• Migrating Gray Whale

  
  Wildlifist — Authority: 107
  Another migrating gray whale, this time seen in Monterey Bay Jan 11, 2012. You can just barely see the whale’s eye in this pic.
  2 weeks ago

• Horse Beauty

  
  54ka [photo blog] — Authority: 85
  1 Photo | Canon 40D | Canon 17-40 mm f4 [[Visit blog to check out this spoiler]]
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• Western Red Colobus

  
  Real Monstrosities — Authority: 104
  Image: Wikipedia Round my way, theres only one kind of racism that is still allowed. Thats one group of people who you can openly despise and laugh at for no other reason than the lottery of birth. Im not talking about the Welsh (or Scottish. Or French. Or German). Im talking about the Ginger. I, of course, have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sumatran Tiger

  
  Animal A Day! — Authority: 110
  So to carry on with my unofficial theme of "cool animals I saw in California Zoos" we come to the Sumatran Tiger. This subspecies is found only on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and is the smallest of all the extant tigers. For a quick size comparison- the Siberian, or Amur Tiger, the largest of the subspecies, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stream: Mammal Club - Towards You With Lust [New Demo]

  
  FADED GLAMOUR — Authority: 109
  Words: Saam Das We first talked about Northerners Mammal Club in October 2010 , followed by our excitement over their Au EP last April. Otter still stands out as one of my favourite tracks of 2011. Anyway, theyve returned with a wonderfully ethereal slice of experimental pop, which you can listen to below. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Inspired by Conan OBriens Ginger Beard: Prince Bernhards Titi

  
  Featured Creature — Authority: 110
  © Marc van Roosmalen   image source: www2.ljworld.com © Marc van Roosmalen  © Marc van Roosmalen  Habitat: Brazil Status: Least Concern When I first laid eyes on Prince Bernhards Titi Monkey ( Callicebus bernhardi ) I knew I had ...
  2 weeks ago

• Visayan Warty Pig

  
  Animal A Day! — Authority: 110
  Visayan Warty Pig as the LA Zoo One of my favorite things about going to new zoos is seeing incredible species that I never even new existed. One critter that I encountered at both the Los Angeles and San Diego zoos was the Visayan Warty Pig, one of the most endangered pigs int eh entire world. The species was ...
  2 weeks ago

• Eight endangered rhinos killed by poachers in Kruger Park

  
  Desdemona Despair: Blogging the End of the World — Authority: 123
  January 11 (Sapa) – Eight rhino carcasses have been found in the Kruger National Park, SA National Parks says. "Yesterday [Tuesday] on patrol, eight rhino carcasses were found. Three carcasses were found in Lower Sabie and five in the Pretoriuskop section of the park," said spokesman Reynold Thakhuli. He said ...
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• When did it go extinct?

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 95
  It was bound to happen. After years of successful avoidance I have finally succumbed to the dark side: palaeo-ecology. I suppose the delve from historical/modern ecology into prehistory was inevitable given (a) my long-term association with brain-the-size-of-a-planet Barry Brook (who, incidentally, has reinvented ...
  3 weeks ago

• Antique Bison

  
  Animal A Day! — Authority: 110
  Bison antiquus fossil at the Page Museum Meet the ancestor of the modern North American Bison- the Antique or Ancient Bison. These huge herbivores were some of the most common mammals found on the continent during the end of the last Ice Age. Antique Bison themselves most likely evolved from the Eurasian Steppe ...
  3 weeks ago

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