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Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Gears up for a Big Summer

Cleveland, OH - Have you “herd” about African Elephant Crossing, the new $25 million home for elephants at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo? The BIG news is that starting May 5 the Zoo is kicking off summer a little early with [...]

Posted On : Apr, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Dino extinction made mammals grow '1000 times bigger'

The extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago resulted in the size of mammals increasing - by about a thousand times bigger than they had been. "Basically, the dinosaurs disappear and all of a sudden there is nobody else eating t [...]

Posted On : Nov, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Zoo must fix big cats risk

Council inspectors warned Edinburgh Zoo that its enclosures need vital work to ensure employee safety. If the upgrades are not completed the attraction risks losing its licence in 2012. The enclosures for both the jaguars and sealio [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2009 | Comments : 0

Elephant's ancestor 'not much bigger than a rabbit'

A 60 million-year-old skull dug up in Morocco has been identified as the earliest form of what is now the earth's largest land mammal. This creature was trunkless, measured less than 2ft (50 cm) from tip to tail and weighed just 9 to 11lbs [...]

Posted On : Jun, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Reptilian trade reaps big profits for smugglers

THE alligator captured wandering through a South Coast campsite this week could be an escapee from a black-market network in which thousands of exotic foreign animals are traded illegally. Police and officers from the NSW Department of Env [...]

Posted On : Jan, 01 2009 | Comments : 0

Big mammals key to tree-ant team

At first it may seem counter-intuitive: that preventing large African herbivores from browsing Acacia trees decreases their growth. This, however, is precisely what researchers report in Science magazine. It is all because of the Acacia's [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2008 | Comments : 0

Big mammals key to tree-ant team

This, however, is precisely what researchers report in Science magazine. It is all because of the Acacia's mutually beneficial relationship with a biting ant. Together they fend off Africa's big grazing mammals; but it is these very antag [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

The Biggest

Some people argue that a vegetarian diet can’t support a large life-form. They obviously haven’t met the blue whale (Balenoptera musculus), a massive creature that survives on plankton.Weighing in at 150 tons, the blue whale i [...]