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According to Italian news agencies, a huge number of the birds were found to have blue stains on their beaks that may have been caused by paint or hypoxia. [ 17 ] Over the weekend of 8–9 January, "over a hundred" dead birds were found clustered together on a California highway, while "thousands of dead gizzard shad " (a species of fish ...
Rodents are animals that gnaw with two continuously growing incisors. Forty percent of mammal species are rodents, and they inhabit every continent except Antarctica. This list contains circa 2,700 species in 518 genera in the order Rodentia. [1]
Please follow the IUCN Red List when you add or remove species, subspecies, varieties, stocks or sub-populations. For brevity use binomial or trinomial nomenclature only, that is, omit common names and the name of the scientific authority.
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Overhead lines. An overhead line or overhead wire is an electrical cable that is used to transmit electrical energy to electric locomotives, electric multiple units, trolleybuses or trams.
Analysis of animal genes found evidence that, after humans had diverged from other apes, interspecies mating nonetheless occurred regularly enough to change certain genes in the new gene pool. [163] Researchers found that the X chromosomes of humans and chimps may have diverged around 1.2 million years after the other chromosomes.
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