Scientists map elephant evolution
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Scientists say they have worked out the date the African and Asian elephants diverged, putting it at 7.6 million years ago.
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Reseachers have linked the survival of the Acacia tree to Africa's big browsing mammals
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Humans, not climate change, wiped out large beasts such as marsupial lions and tree kangaroos that roamed Australia thousands of years ago, scientists have concluded based on a remarkable new set of fossils.
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Scientists have found fossil skeletons of a human species that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child. The species lived with pygmy elephants and Komodo dragons on a remote island in Indonesia.
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The genetic blueprint of a parasite that causes disfiguring elephantiasis has been unravelled.
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Using elephant dung and skin samples, researchers said they were able to make a map of elephant DNA that could help track down ivory poachers.
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By Gosling, Samuel D Graybeal, Anna  ABSTRACT. Over the past 15 years, several important theoretical and methodological developments have emerged from evolutionary biology.
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Scientists have pinpointed mutations in an ancient protein that transformed its shape and function more than 400 million years ago.
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New Delhi - Scientists have discovered a new species of monkey in north-eastern India, 101 years after the last species of its kind was found, a member of the investigating team said on Thursday.
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The giant panda's earliest known ancestor was much smaller than its modern day counterpart, scientists say
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Unraveling the genetic map of diatoms -- microscopic sea creatures -- could pay big dividends in defending the world's ecological systems. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Science & environment: Small deer-like animal that waded in lagoons 10 million years ago may have evolved into the modern whale
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Attacking several tons of woolly mammoth with stone-tipped spears must have taken extraordinary courage &#151; and ancient people left paintings to prove they did it. Now, scientists are approaching mammoths in a different way, extracting DNA from their dense coats in an effort to learn more about them.
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In the continuing debate over the origin of the extinct âlittle peopleâ of Indonesia, a team of scientists says it has found evidence that these people were members of a distinct species.
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Scientists analysing 25 years of data find some 80% of animals have extended the northern edge of their ranges.
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The complex science of DNA analysis is now helping protect elephants by showing police and conservationists the source of black-market ivory.
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Researchers have reconstructed a long string of genetic code for what they believe is the common ancestor of placental mammals - a shrewlike creature that lived in Asia more than 75 million years ago.