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NEWS ABOUT: predators

predators stories: 6 news summaries

 'Ballerina-Like' T. Rex 
 Cousin Discovered 

Size, light skeleton and delicate teeth suggest different prey from larger relative

Oct 6, 09 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - A smaller, more agile cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex has been identified. The skull and a nearly complete skeleton of Alioramus altai was discovered in Mongolia in 2001, and has features that distinguish it from its more lumbering cousin. Unlike its “big bad boy” relatives, a study author... More »

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paleontology • fossil • Gobi desert • dinosaur • Mongolia • predators • Tyrannosaurus rex • Alioramus altai

ANALYSIS

 Fla. Python Hunt 
 More Wild Goose Chase 


Jul 30, 09 12:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The “Great Florida Python Hunt” is on, but the prey population is likely smaller—and less dangerous—than advertised, Paul Quinlan writes in the Palm Beach Post. Proponents have said there could be 100-150,000 Burmese pythons in the Everglades, a figure the media has seized upon. But the... More »

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Florida • snake • Bill Nelson • Everglades • predators • burmese python • national park • hunt

North America's
Tiniest Dino Found

Chicken-sized predator roamed Canada 75M years ago

Mar 17, 09 4:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists have identified the remains of the smallest dinosaur species ever found in North America, reports National Geographic. Hesperonychus elizabethae was a Cretaceous-era carnivore no bigger than a chicken, according to researchers. Scientists believe the existence of the Velociraptor cousin helps confirm that dinosaurs, not mammals, filled the role of... More »

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paleontology • dinosaur • predators • Cretaceous Period

Polar Bears May Have Yet Another Worry: Sharks

Bone is found in the stomach of a Greenland shark

Aug 12, 08 6:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - As if polar bears in the North Pole didn't have enough to worry about these days: Scientists have found the bone of a young bear in the stomach of a Greenland shark, Reuters reports. The unprecedented discovery prompts a "million dollar question," says one researcher: Do the bears... More »

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global warming • shark • polar bear • polar ice caps • deadly animals • predators • shark attack

 Midwest Fights
 Weeds With Bugs 

Biological control takes a food-chain approach to invasive plants

Jul 2, 08 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Officials in the Midwest are returning to a tried-and-true technique to fight invasive plants, the Chicago Tribune reports. Biological control uses natural enemies to rein in pests, and importing a tiny brown beetle in the 1990s brought under control a fast-spreading European weed, known as loosestrife, that was terrorizing agriculture.... More »

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agriculture • farms • plants • species • insects • predators • invasive species • biological control

Tiger Numbers Plummet in India

More than half vanish in 5 years

Feb 13, 08 11:50 AM CST
(Newser) - At least half of India's Bengal tiger population has vanished in the last five years, according to the latest alarming census of the endangered predators. A Project Tiger conservationist blamed "poaching, and loss of quality habitat and prey," reports AFP. A 2002 survey estimated there were 3,700... More »

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endangered species • conservation • India • poaching • tigers • Bengal tigers • predators • Project Tiger

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