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Its closest relative were the koala and the wombats. But it was not a leaf lover; instead, it slew extinct cow-sized kangaroos and hippo-sized Diprotodons. The extinct Australian marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) was the largest carnivorous marsupial mammal ever and a new research published in the Journal of Zoolo... |
18 January 2008
03:32 GMT |
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From about 15,000 years, humans rely on one animal as guardian: the dog. In time, we have created more aggressive, more massive, more dreadful dog breeds for this purpose. But only dogs save our asses?1.There is the famous legend (and historical fact) of the geese that saved Rome in 300 BC from the attack of the Celt... |
7 January 2008
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This is the main character of all documentaries made on the savanna. We like to watch lions, hyenas or wild dogs hunting and in most cases they hunt wildebeests. That's because this is the most common African antelope of the savanna. Today wildebeests live only in eastern/southern Africa, but 300-400,000 years a... |
12 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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People are an easy prey for any large predator. And between death by hunger and death by shooting, perhaps a lion won't starve till dying. In Mozambique, the rainy season is the moment when the lions turn into man-eaters, because the too tall grass impedes them to approach to their normal preys. This happened in... |
20 October 2007
06:24 GMT |
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These were the horror cats of our prehistory. But as it wasn't the case with T-rex, Stone Age people had to face these beasts. A new research has shown the way the terrible predators used to kill their prey and the surprise is that, despite their huge fangs, the bite of these predators was surprisingly weak. Smi... |
2 October 2007
03:11 GMT |
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This looks like another Congolese myth: huge jungle apes that kill lions, catch fish and even howl at the moon. The legends speak about a legendary creature, a type of hybrid between a chimp and a gorilla.But how to investigate this in the middle of one of the bloodiest conflicts on the planet, the civil war in the D... |
16 July 2007
03:48 GMT |
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Perhaps amongst the beasts that haunt our imagination, triggering the deepest fears, there is nothing more powerful that the big cats. Up until a few millennia ago, we were their breakfast, lunch and dinner. And even today, lions, leopards and tigers are causing quite a number of victims in Africa and Asia. Still, so... |
28 June 2007
07:03 GMT |
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During Ice Age, the plains of Europe were filled with a savanna-like fauna: elephants (read mammoths), lions and rhinos (even if woolly ones). And this was recorded by even the first Homo sapiens entering Europe. American and German archaeologists have found in southwestern Germany the oldest woolly mammoth-ivory car... |
25 June 2007
03:38 GMT |
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During the Ice Age, huge beasts forming the megafauna, like mammoths, saber-toothed cats and woolly rhinos roamed the continents of our planet. But the Ice Age ended some 10,000 years ago and most of the megafauna disappeared, a fact which is connected to the spread of modern humans. This fauna loss left the Holocene... |
1 June 2007
10:06 GMT |
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Grace, power and intelligence ...This is a combination that fascinated people since ever; in cave painting 30,000 years old found in Europe, scientists discovered images representing the so-called cave lions (direct ancestors of today's lions). Cats emerged 37 million years ago. First cats were arboreal and rese... |
12 March 2007
12:24 GMT |
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