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Indonesia’s ‘hobbits’ may have scavenged Komodo dragon leftovers, not hunted or cooked, study says
Indonesia’s ancient “hobbits” may have endured not as daring hunters but as scavengers that capitalized on whatever food they could find, according t…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #hobbits #Homoerectus #Homofloresiensis #indonesia #Komododragons #LiangBua
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2722532/indonesias-hobbits-may-have-scavenged-komodo-dragon-leftovers-not-hunted-or-cooked-study-says/ -
Indonesia’s ‘hobbits’ may have scavenged Komodo dragon leftovers, not hunted or cooked, study says
Indonesia’s ancient “hobbits” may have endured not as daring hunters but as scavengers that capitalized on whatever food they could find, according t…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #hobbits #Homoerectus #Homofloresiensis #indonesia #Komododragons #LiangBua
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2722532/indonesias-hobbits-may-have-scavenged-komodo-dragon-leftovers-not-hunted-or-cooked-study-says/ -
Indonesia’s ‘hobbits’ may have scavenged Komodo dragon leftovers, not hunted or cooked, study says https://www.diningandcooking.com/2722532/indonesias-hobbits-may-have-scavenged-komodo-dragon-leftovers-not-hunted-or-cooked-study-says/ #Cooking #hobbits #HomoErectus #HomoFloresiensis #indonesia #KomodoDragons #LiangBua
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Indonesia’s ‘hobbits’ may have scavenged Komodo dragon leftovers, not hunted or cooked, study says https://www.diningandcooking.com/2722532/indonesias-hobbits-may-have-scavenged-komodo-dragon-leftovers-not-hunted-or-cooked-study-says/ #Cooking #hobbits #HomoErectus #HomoFloresiensis #indonesia #KomodoDragons #LiangBua
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New Study Suggests Early Humans Scavenged Komodo Dragon Prey
📰 Original title: Hobbit-like Humans May Have Scavenged Komodo Dragons' Leftovers to Survive
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/new-study-suggests-early-humans-scavenged-komodo-dragon-prey.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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New Study Suggests Early Humans Scavenged Komodo Dragon Prey
📰 Original title: Hobbit-like Humans May Have Scavenged Komodo Dragons' Leftovers to Survive
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/new-study-suggests-early-humans-scavenged-komodo-dragon-prey.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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Indonesia will lend a breeding pair of endangered Komodo dragons to Japan under an agreement signed Wednesday between zoos from the two countries that emphasised the project's conservation merits. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/30/japan/indonesia-japan-animal-diplomacy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #indonesiajapanrelations #animals #komododragons
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Indonesia will lend a breeding pair of endangered Komodo dragons to Japan under an agreement signed Wednesday between zoos from the two countries that emphasised the project's conservation merits. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/30/japan/indonesia-japan-animal-diplomacy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #indonesiajapanrelations #animals #komododragons
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Indonesia will loan two Komodo dragons to Shizuoka Prefecture, where it is hoped the endangered reptiles will be able to breed, and will receive some red pandas and giraffes in return, an official has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/31/japan/komodo-dragons-indonesia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #indonesia #shizuoka #komododragons
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Indonesia will loan two Komodo dragons to Shizuoka Prefecture, where it is hoped the endangered reptiles will be able to breed, and will receive some red pandas and giraffes in return, an official has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/31/japan/komodo-dragons-indonesia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #indonesia #shizuoka #komododragons
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Came across this gem in my bookmarks...
No Sex Needed: All-Female #Lizard Species Cross Their Chromosomes to Make Babies
These southwestern lizards' asexual reproduction is no longer a secret
By Katherine Harmon
February 21, 2010"Since the 1960s scientists have known that some species of #WhiptailLizards need a male even less than a fish needs a bicycle. These all-lady lizard species (of the Aspidoscelis genus) from Mexico and the U.S. Southwest manage to produce well-bred offspring without the aid of male fertilization.
"But how do they—and the other 70 species of vertebrates that propagate this way—do it without the genetic monotony and disease vulnerability that often results from asexual reproduction? 'It has remained unclear' and 'has been the topic of much speculation,' report a team of researchers who aimed to answer just that question. Their results were published online February 21 in the journal Nature. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.)
"These lizards and other '#parthenogenetic species are genetically isolated,' explains Peter Baumann, an associate investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Mo., and co-author of the study. Species as diverse as #KomodoDragons and #HammerheadSharks do it asexually if necessary, but some species, like these little lizards, don't have a choice. 'They can't exchange genetic material, and this loss of genetic exchange is a major disadvantage to them in a changing environment,' he says. Unless an animal can recombine the DNA they already have, they will produce an offspring with an identical set of chromosomes, in which any genetic weakness, such as disease susceptibility or physical mutation, would have no chance to be overridden by outside genetic material from a mate.
"The new research by Baumann and his team reveal that these lizards maintain genetic richness by starting the reproductive process with twice the number of chromosomes as their sexually reproducing cousins. These celibate species resulted from the hybridization of different sexual species, a process that instills the parthenogenetic lizards with a great amount of #GeneticDiversity at the outset. And the researchers found that these species could maintain the diversity by never pairing their homologous chromosomes (as sexual species do by taking one set of chromosomes from each parent) but rather by combining their sister chromosomes instead. '#Recombination between pairs of sister chromosomes maintains heterozygosity' throughout the chromosome, noted the authors of the study, which was led by Aracely Lutes, a postdoctoral researcher in Baumann's lab.
"This discovery, which had until now been unconfirmed in the reptile world, means that 'these lizards have a way of distinguishing sister from homologous chromosomes,' Baumann says. How do they do it? That's something the group is now investigating.
"Another big unknown is precisely how the lizards end up with double the amount of chromosomes in the first place. Baumann suspects that it could happen over two rounds of replication or if two sex cells combine forces before the division process starts."
Read more:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asexual-lizards/#AsexualReproduction #NatureIsQueer #NatureIsGay #NatureIsCool! #Lizards
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Came across this gem in my bookmarks...
No Sex Needed: All-Female #Lizard Species Cross Their Chromosomes to Make Babies
These southwestern lizards' asexual reproduction is no longer a secret
By Katherine Harmon
February 21, 2010"Since the 1960s scientists have known that some species of #WhiptailLizards need a male even less than a fish needs a bicycle. These all-lady lizard species (of the Aspidoscelis genus) from Mexico and the U.S. Southwest manage to produce well-bred offspring without the aid of male fertilization.
"But how do they—and the other 70 species of vertebrates that propagate this way—do it without the genetic monotony and disease vulnerability that often results from asexual reproduction? 'It has remained unclear' and 'has been the topic of much speculation,' report a team of researchers who aimed to answer just that question. Their results were published online February 21 in the journal Nature. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.)
"These lizards and other '#parthenogenetic species are genetically isolated,' explains Peter Baumann, an associate investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Mo., and co-author of the study. Species as diverse as #KomodoDragons and #HammerheadSharks do it asexually if necessary, but some species, like these little lizards, don't have a choice. 'They can't exchange genetic material, and this loss of genetic exchange is a major disadvantage to them in a changing environment,' he says. Unless an animal can recombine the DNA they already have, they will produce an offspring with an identical set of chromosomes, in which any genetic weakness, such as disease susceptibility or physical mutation, would have no chance to be overridden by outside genetic material from a mate.
"The new research by Baumann and his team reveal that these lizards maintain genetic richness by starting the reproductive process with twice the number of chromosomes as their sexually reproducing cousins. These celibate species resulted from the hybridization of different sexual species, a process that instills the parthenogenetic lizards with a great amount of #GeneticDiversity at the outset. And the researchers found that these species could maintain the diversity by never pairing their homologous chromosomes (as sexual species do by taking one set of chromosomes from each parent) but rather by combining their sister chromosomes instead. '#Recombination between pairs of sister chromosomes maintains heterozygosity' throughout the chromosome, noted the authors of the study, which was led by Aracely Lutes, a postdoctoral researcher in Baumann's lab.
"This discovery, which had until now been unconfirmed in the reptile world, means that 'these lizards have a way of distinguishing sister from homologous chromosomes,' Baumann says. How do they do it? That's something the group is now investigating.
"Another big unknown is precisely how the lizards end up with double the amount of chromosomes in the first place. Baumann suspects that it could happen over two rounds of replication or if two sex cells combine forces before the division process starts."
Read more:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asexual-lizards/#AsexualReproduction #NatureIsQueer #NatureIsGay #NatureIsCool! #Lizards
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #106: Komodo dragons.
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#nature #komododragons #reptiles #parthenogenesis #virginbirth #animals #facts #animalfacts #comic #webcomic #didyouknow #funfacts #strangebuttrue #chesterzoolondon #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #106: Komodo dragons.
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#nature #komododragons #reptiles #parthenogenesis #virginbirth #animals #facts #animalfacts #comic #webcomic #didyouknow #funfacts #strangebuttrue #chesterzoolondon #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
Komodo dragons, the largest predatory lizards on Earth, have iron-coated teeth, according to a new study.
New research provides the first evidence of the adaptation in a carnivorous reptile, and it might hold clues to understanding the teeth of dinosaurs.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/komodo-dragons-have-iron-coated-teeth-study-finds-180984799/ #Komododragons #lizards
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Komodo dragons, the largest predatory lizards on Earth, have iron-coated teeth, according to a new study.
New research provides the first evidence of the adaptation in a carnivorous reptile, and it might hold clues to understanding the teeth of dinosaurs.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/komodo-dragons-have-iron-coated-teeth-study-finds-180984799/ #Komododragons #lizards
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#KomodoDragons are amazing predators. Now it seems they have iron coated teeth! #nature #lizards
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/komodo-dragons-iron-coated-teeth -
#KomodoDragons are amazing predators. Now it seems they have iron coated teeth! #nature #lizards
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/komodo-dragons-iron-coated-teeth -
Robot Spy Pig Meets Komodo Dragons - It Doesn't End Well! https://youtu.be/QD27cbjR2y8?si=PTXxeys1n36KZHXL via @YouTube
Bob and Ray The Komodo Dragon https://youtu.be/gZEyvwhjcFk?si=j3ijmUY0ucy5maYc via @YouTube
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Robot Spy Pig Meets Komodo Dragons - It Doesn't End Well! https://youtu.be/QD27cbjR2y8?si=PTXxeys1n36KZHXL via @YouTube
Bob and Ray The Komodo Dragon https://youtu.be/gZEyvwhjcFk?si=j3ijmUY0ucy5maYc via @YouTube
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Bob and Ray The Komodo Dragon https://youtu.be/gZEyvwhjcFk via @YouTube
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Bob and Ray The Komodo Dragon https://youtu.be/gZEyvwhjcFk via @YouTube