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Animal News is Macroevolution.net's page reporting recent scientific findings about animals. BIOLOGY NEWS PAGES ON THIS SITE:  Health   Biology   Marine Biology   Environment   Astrobiology   Animals   Fossils   Earth Science   Molecular   Biotechnology  Invasive animals and plants Scientists point out that trade policies need to take larger account of invasive organisms. Read on >> Savanna elephants: 2,000 dead Since 2006, 2,000 savanna elephants have been killed in and around Chad's Zakouma National Park. Read on >> Dinosaurs may soon show true colors A new study has determined the colors of 40-million-old feathers, opening up the possibility of decoding the pigments of ancient dinosaurs Read on >> Water Striders - It pays to be polite How does the typical male water strider manage to be fruitful and multiply? Not by being pushy, says a new study. Read on >> The largest snake on record lived in the earliest known neotropical forest The largest snake thus far known to science, the monstrous Titanoboa, slithered through the oldest known neotropical rainforest. Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine is yielding plant and animal fossils from a time and environment till now unknown. Read on >> Turtle hatchlings pack a big lunch Sea turtle hatchlings can swim incredible distances before they get their first meal. Read on >> Fish play big role in marine carbon cycle A new study shows fish are far more important in regulating the ocean's pH than had previously been thought. Read on >> Animal News - Macroevolution.net Aetodactylus halli — Another first for Texas! Texan paleontologist Timothy S. Myers has just described a previously unknown pterosaur on the basis of a 95-million-year-old jaw found near Dallas in a roadside cut. Read on >> Gators find true love Who says a reptile hasn't got a heart? A new study says American alligators are faithful mates, typically remaining together for years. Read on >> New insights into extinct Tasmanian tiger In 1902, the National Zoo in Washington D.C. arranged to have a unique and endangered animal called the thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, brought to the United States from Tasmania. By the mid-1930s, the thylacine was extinct, leaving behind only preserved museum specimens. In a study published online in Genome Research, researchers sequenced DNA from thylacine museum specimens, including the one brought to the National Zoo more than a century ago. Read on >> Jellyfish populations mushroom Massive jellyfish swarms are transforming fisheries and tourist destinations into veritable jellytoriums, intermittently jammed with these stinging, pulsating, gelatinous creatures. Read on >> Polar bears eating goose eggs As polar bears adjust to a warming Arctic — a frozen seascape that thaws sooner each spring — they are finding relief in an unlikely source: snow goose eggs. Read on >> Mexican beaded lizard shares venom source with shrew A new study says similar molecular changes have converted the same harmless digestive enzyme into a toxin in two very different types of animals — a lizard and a shrew — giving both a venomous bite. Read on >> Animal News - Macroevolution.net