NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some dinosaur dung was snapped up at auction in New York even as a 4.5 billion year old meteorite which was supposed to top the sale went unsold.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- A count of elephant dung revealed a surprisingly large endangered elephant population - more than 600 - in Malaysia's biggest national park, researchers said Thursday.... ...
... when they are ready to mate. Little is known about the feeding habits of females when they are not at the dung pats, Pitnick says. On the other hand, males were thought to hang out almost exclusively ...
... elephants which, because they eat more food, produce more waste. By burying that waste dung-beetles not only remove it from the surface, they improve and fertilise the soil and reduce the number of ...
... 30-million-year-old fossil 'mega-dung' from extinct giant South American mammals reveals evidence of complex ecological interactions and theft of dung-beetles' food stores by other animals.
Researcher discovers frogs living in piles of Asian elephant dung.
Rock rabbit dung heaps in Africa—some dating back tens of
thousands of years—are time capsules of climate and vegetation
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... -like taste when cooked, but when raw it has sap so foul-smelling that some call it the "Dung of the Devil" plant. Their report is scheduled for the Sept. 25 issue of ACS' Journal of Natural Products, ...
A dung beetle from Costa Rica has been named after Charles Darwin and the Darwin Initiative. It was discovered during a Natural History Museum led expedition.
... to human blood, human urine, and even cow dung samples from local cow pats. The results could lead ... blood, human urine, and even cow and horse dung harvested from locality. The results so far suggest ...
A study of mammoth dung has helped unravel the mystery of what caused the great mammals to die out.
MADISON, Wis., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A study of mammoth dung from a lake bed in Indiana suggests a crashing comet did not wipe out North America's largest ice age animals, scientists said.
... complex carbon sources, which may have potential use in biotechnology applications. P. anserina is a dung-inhabiting, saprophytic fungus used to study areas of eukaryotic and fungal biology, including ...
... are primarily the products of diesel combustion, agricultural biomass burning, use of wood- and cow dung-burning stoves in rural homes and the use of coal in home heating.
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Commercial fishing is a dangerous occupation, and fishing for Dungeness crab off California, Oregon and Washington may be the most dangerous of all.
