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Drowned starlings puzzle scientists
2015-11-25 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Drowning has emerged as a mysterious cause of death amongst groups of young common starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), according to research by a team of scientists led by international conservation charity the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). Drowning as a cause of death amongst wild birds is comparatively rare and normally involves single rather than multiple animals. Starlings, however, have been observed to drown in groups of 10 or more, prompting scient…
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Scientists Piece Together the Puzzle of Earth's Last Ice Age
2014-06-03 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: It seems blatantly obvious that an extremely cold climate spurred Earth's last Ice Age - officially known as the "Last Glacial Maximum" (LGM) - but scientists have long suspected that other factors were at play, and are just now piecing together the rest of the puzzle. "We have all these scattered pieces of information about changes in the ocean, atmosphere, and ice cover," Raffaele Ferrari, the Breene M. Kerr Professor of Physical Oceanography in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary...
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