Elephant ancestors´ teeth evolved in response to long term changes in diet and climate in Africa
The latest study about of proboscideans (elephants and their ancient relatives) from the University of Helsinki provides proof that some ...
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Paleontologists discover elephant graveyard in North Florida
About five and a half million years ago, several gomphotheres — extinct relatives of elephants — died in or near ...
Elephant ecosystems in decline
More than 3 million square kilometers of the Asian elephant’s historic habitat range has been lost in just three centuries, ...
Elephant seals drift off to sleep while diving far below the ocean surface
For the first time, scientists have recorded brain activity in a free-ranging, wild marine mammal, revealing the sleep habits of ...
Data from elephant seals reveal new features of marine heatwave ‘the Blob’
The North Pacific Blob, a marine heatwave that began in late 2013 and continued through 2015, was the largest and ...
Skin: An additional tool for the versatile elephant trunk
A new study from Georgia Institute of Technology suggests that an elephant’s muscles aren’t the only way it stretches its ...
Usefulness of monitoring IgG against Antigen-85b for prediction of tuberculosis development from latency: From an elephant tuberculosis analysis
Niigata, Japan - Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb); the leading cause of human death ...
Elephant seal’s map sense tells them when to head ‘home’
Each year, pregnant female elephant seals take an approximately 240-day trek over 10,000 kilometers across the Eastern North Pacific Ocean ...
DNA testing exposes tactics of international criminal networks trafficking elephant ivory
A team led by scientists at the University of Washington and special agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...
New genus of extinct elephant fish discovered in Moscow
Chimaeroid fish are a small group of cartilaginous fish in terms of the number of species. In their appearance, there ...
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Instant evolution: AI designs new robot from scratch in seconds
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Lasers deflected using air
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New $81million NIH grant will help U.S. answer urgent need for better dementia care
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Men with metastatic prostate cancer live longer thanks to new drugs
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African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP) Open Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics Workshop 2023
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Pumped for frigid weather: study pinpoints cold adaptations in nervous system of Antarctic octopus