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Earliest known sabre-toothed predator hunted 270 million years ago
The fossilised remains of an ancient carnivore provide intriguing hints about how early relatives of mammals began regulating ...
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The Critical Role of Elephants in Ecosystem Balance (and What Might Happen Without Them)
Elephants are the largest land animals worldwide, used in tourism in several ... Adult elephants are hardly bothered by ...
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Terrestrial Wildlife
AWI works to safeguard wild animals and their habitats ... and supporting increased funding for federal land and wildlife management agencies. We advocate for humane solutions to human-wildlife ...
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Fungi Are Responsible For Life On Land As We Know It
In fact, neither land plants nor terrestrial animals would exist them. “Fungi are absolutely remarkable chemists,” says McMaster University biochemistry professor Gerry Wright. Fungi produce ...
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Origins of land plants pushed back in time
A seminal event in the Earth's history - when plants appeared on land - may have happened 100 million years earlier than previously thought. Land plants evolved from "pond scum" about 500 million ...