Island mammal dwarfism not just a matter of size
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Dwarf animals that lived on islands thousands of years ago evolved to their tiny size due to a lack of predators and competitors, not just because they were too big for their habitats, researchers said on Monday.
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NEW YORK Once upon a time, but not so long ago, in a tropical island midway between Asia and Australia, there lived a race of little people, whose adults stood just more than one meter tall.
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Australian and Indonesian scientists have discovered a species of tiny human beings who lived on the remote Indonesian island of Flores 18,000 years ago.
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More than a hundred species of tiny land-breeding frogs in the Caribbean evolved from a single South American species that probably hitched a ride on a raft of vegetation and washed up on an island beach, according to scientists who spent decades collecting tissues from the colorful hoppers.
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There are no easy answers when it comes to keeping the world's largest land mammal in check.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- With buck teeth, short legs, and a hairy, 183-pound body, she's not a conventional beauty. But the departure of a female capybara from one of Rio's most popular parks to a nature reserve has left a void for many residents.
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Cambridge, England, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- British and Filipino researchers have found a new bird species on a remote island in the northern Philippines, which is a relative to the familiar Moorhen.
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A new species of tree that is not thought to grow anywhere else is found on an island off the west coast of Scotland.
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Scientists have discovered a tiny species of ancient human that lived 18,000 years ago on an isolated island east of the Java Sea -- a prehistoric hunter in a "lost world" of giant lizards and miniature elephants.
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The search for tiny treasures continues.
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The rabbit-size rodents were once said to be headed for extinction, but now scientists say there are three times more of them on the African island than had been thought.
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Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a heretofore unknown species of dwarf people, dubbed Homo floresiensis.
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Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a species of dwarf people, dubbed Homo floresiensis.
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Mythical tales abound of a race of little people that dwell on the islands of Indonesia. Dutch explorers who colonized Flores 100 years ago were told stories of a human-like creature local
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The gigantic ocean-dwelling whale may have evolved from a land animal the size of a small raccoon, new research suggests. What might be the missing evolutionary link between whales and land animals is an odd animal that looks like a long-tailed deer without antlers or an overgrown long-legged rat, fossils indicate.
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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 skull of Homo floresiensis, a newly discovered species of human, next to a modern human skull (right). Fully adult, H. floresiensis was barely three-feet-tall and had a skull the size of a grapefruit.