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Friday, December 14th, 2007New discovery in the world of dinosaur. Ten years ago, Dr Paul Sereno discovered bones and teeth of an unknown dino, in a site in Niger. He passed the fossils to a postgraduate student of Bristol University, Steve Brusatte. The dinosaur was named Carcharodontosaurus. He was 46 feet tall and weight 7 tons, bigger than his cousin T-Rex, he [...]
New Species of Spitting-Cobra Discovered
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007Herpetologists from Kenya and United Kingdom found a new species of spitting-cobra who is reported to be largest ever discovered. The newfound cobra has its habitation in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia and it can “deliver more poison than any other cobras that have yet been discovered”. This cobra is also known as Ashe’s spitting cobra [...]
Japanese fleet hunts humpback whales for research
Monday, November 19th, 2007 Is said that the Japanese fleet is hunting whales in the name of science. Four ships are ready to sail from Japan to hunt 50 humpback whales, but it is assumed that they will kill around 1000 whales.
This is one of the biggest Japanese whale hunting missions. The fleet will run in the South [...]
New pig species found by Dutch scientist
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007In the German journal Bonner Zoologische Beitrage we have read about an article written by the Dutch scientist Marc van Roosmalen, who states that he found a new wild pig species somewhere in the Amazon forest. The pig has a weight of 90 pounds and is 4 feet long. It’s related to the Pecari [...]
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