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Just turn your back, Mom.(ZOOLOGY)(Brief article)
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May 6, 2006
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A female in a species of legless amphibians called caecilians nourishes her youngsters by letting them eat the skin off her back, says an international research team.
Caecilians, which look like worms or snakes, burrow through the soil in the tropics. Some species lay eggs, and quirks of several of these species got Mark Wilkinson of the Natural History Museum in London and other researchers wondering whether these morns fed their young. The hatchlings had scraperlike teeth, for example, and they hung around their mother for their first weeks of life.
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Cryptic speciation in a benthic isopod from Patagonian and Falkland Island waters and the impact of glaciations on its population structure.(Research)(Report)
Magazine article from: Frontiers in Zoology
; ...marine species supports that the Falkland Islands form a part of the Atlantic Magellan...continental South America and the Falkland Island is occurring repeatedly. However...originally described from the Falkland Islands but is also frequently...
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'We know we'll find gold in the Falklands' David Hudd, the head of Falkland Island Holdings, tells Edward Simpkins about his firm's drive to modernise
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...Hudd, the chairman of Falkland Island Holdings (FIH...founded on British islands on distant part of...the flotation of Falkland Oil and Gas - which...south and east of the islands. FIH owns 28 per cent...became chairman of Falkland Island Holdings in 2002 and...
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Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Permian of the Falkland Islands: Lithostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental links with South Africa
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...based on fieldwork in the Falkland Islands carried out on four occasions...the west coast of East Falkland from Port Sussex to the...northern part of East Falkland from Port Sussex to Pleasant...Roads. Visits to Lively Island, Speedwell Island...
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Late Palaeozoic to Mesozoic structural evolution of the Falkland Islands: A displaced segment of the Cape Fold Belt
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...HYAM 2 Abstract: The Falkland Islands lie on a displaced crustal...deg rotation of the islands, and the stratigraphic correlations between the Falkland Islands and the eastern...A crucial element of Falkland Islands geology, the...
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Falkland Island area part of region opening to E&P. (oil and gas exploration)
Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily
; ...Campos Basin in Brazil to the Falkland Islands and off Argentina's Tierra...opening up the huge and unexplored Falkland Island Basin for oil and gas exploration...with final arrangements. The Falkland Island Basin is the world's...
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A checklist of the native vascular flora of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas): New information on the species present, their ecology, status and distribution1
Magazine article from: Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society
; ...Conservation, PO Box 26, Stanley, Falkland Islands) AND J. H. McADAM (Department of...1993). Climatic variation across the Falkland Islands archipelago is poorly understood but West Falkland tends to benefit from a milder, drier...
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Falkland Island shores.
Magazine article from: Yachting
; ...have no interest in cruising the Falkland Islands, this is a truly superlative book...Marines, was stationed in the Falkland Islands in 1979 and, being an...Tailyour is enthusiastic about the Falkland Islands, and his expertise was...
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Decolonization Committee says Argentina, United Kingdom should renew efforts on Falkland Islands (Malvinas) question; Resolution seeks peaceful solution to sovereignty dispute, reiterating commitment to help parties comply with Assembly request. Page 1 of 2.
M2 Presswire
; ...prevented from settling on the islands since their expulsion in 1883, granting the island's inhabitants the right...Petitioners representing the Falkland Islands Government called on the...grant the people of the Falkland Islands the basic right...
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A new constitution for the Falkland Islands.
M2 Presswire
; ...A new constitution for the Falkland Islands(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...also some changes to who has Falkland Islands Status (which brings with it...Constitution was formed in the Falkland Islands which met and consulted from...
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Decolonization Committee requests Argentina, United Kingdom to resume negotiations on Falkland Islands (Malvinas); page 1 of 2.
M2 Presswire
; ...Kingdom to resume negotiations on Falkland Islands (Malvinas); page 1 of 2...Argentine Government towards the Falkland Islands served any purpose at all, it...intentions. Also representing the Falkland Islands Government, John Birmingham...
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