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Cousin who? Gliding mammals may be primates' nearest kin.(This Week)(colugos)
Science News; 11/3/2007; Milius, Susan; 422 words
; Hey, primates, meet the colugos--two little-known species of small ... Philippines and the other to Southeast Asia, colugos can stretch out a membrane that lets ... research suggests that tree shrews, colugos, and primates descended from a common ...
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After primates, are colugos man's closest kin?
Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 11/2/2007; Bloomberg News; 355 words
; The colugo, an Asian mammal that glides through the ... Known as the "flying lemur," the bat-like colugo shares seven important genetic features ... University, who participated in the study. "Colugos are going to be a much more important species ...
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Our cousin, the rainforest bat; High as a kite: The colugo glides from tree to tree in South-East Asia.
The Daily Mail (London, England); 11/2/2007; 246 words
; ... closest living relatives. Scientists say the colugo, which looks like a cross between a bat ... raregenetic changes linking primates and colugos. The study's co-author William Murphy ... Ourmolecular trees indicate that primates and colugos split approximately86million years ago ...
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Humanity's new relative sure is funny-looking
Winnipeg Free Press; 11/2/2007; Spears, Tom; 478 words
; ... primates (humans, apes, lemurs and monkeys) is the colugo, a Malaysian animal that looks like a flying squirrel ... why we love all those Batman and Dracula stories. A colugo is shy and bigger than a squirrel. It lives in trees ... look like this fluttering, ghost-like structure." The colugo's ancestors ...
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SHELLEY ViSiON: COME AGAIN?!?(Features)
The Mirror (London, England); 11/21/2006; 30 words
; Byline: JIM SHELLEY IT'S a colugo, or flying lemur, although this is something of a misnomer since it doesn't actually fly and it certainly isn't a lemur. - Crazy David Attenborough (Planet Earth)
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What to WATCH; Sunday.(Features)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 11/18/2006; 184 words
; ... study the largest chimpanzee group in the world defending their territory against neighbours. Life-forms such as the flying colugo, red crab spiders, blue birds of paradise and the parasitic fungi cordyceps, which have developed unique survival abilities ...
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Activists turn old silo into haven for winged things
Oakland Tribune; 7/30/2007; Todd R. Brown; 751 words
; ... than rodents, if you believe those batty evolutionists. Bats have primate-like hands and share traits with the Philippines' colugo or flying lemur. Only three out of the thousand or so species of bats drink blood, and these vampires are native to Central ...
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spell bound; A new dictionary contains words you've probably never heard of. But for one man they're more important than life and death . . .
The Daily Mail (London, England); 7/8/2004; 787 words
; ... siluroid fish) and HAUTBOY (oboe) and LAGENA (an extension of the saccule of the ear) and COLUGO*. He was stunned, and not with admiration. 'What does COLUGO mean?' he demanded acidly. 'I haven't the faintest idea,' I answered complacently, 'but ...
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The jungle nook, INVESTOR DIGEST
Investor Digest (Malaysia); 9/16/2001; 787 words
; ... the Schumacher brothers most recently) is common. Part of the resort's family includes the 60 million-year-old species of colugo (flying lemur) that soar from tree to tree. The Red Giant flying squirrel is best seen in the evening as you lounge by the delta ...
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Defending champ to return to D.C.
Olathe News (Olathe, KS); 2/16/2007; 787 words
; ... package offered by the Olathe Spelling Bee's sponsors: The Olathe News, the Olathe school district, the city and Garmin International ... Webster's Third New International Dictionary from The Olathe News. The book is more than 3 inches thick. Also winning a trophy ... moloch, and Kavya got it right. Kavya won by ...
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