August 11, 2009 • 10:55 am
“A SCRUFFY bitser dog called Moja was hailed a hero yesterday after sticking by his dead master’s side for two days and guiding rescuers to the hidden spot where the Queensland man crashed his car.”
….”Police, family, friends and two AGL rescue helicopters began searching, but with a 1000sq km radius to cover, trying to find the white Nissan utility was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
But on Saturday a woman from a farmhouse near Curra decided to investigate a dog barking for hours on end.
She found the crash site – and Moja sitting next to Mr Drew’s body beside the vehicle.”
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August 7, 2009 • 11:00 am
“Scientists had long thought that the lesser short-tailed bat evolved its walking preference independently.
Since the bat’s native habitat lacks predators, researchers reasoned that—much like flightless birds on isolated islands—the bat had adapted to its safer surroundings in part by walking.
But the discovery of fossils of a now extinct walking bat in northwestern Queensland, Australia, suggests that the modern-day bats descended from 20-million-year-old Australian relatives.
“We were amazed to find they were virtually identical to the bats in New Zealand today,” said study leader Sue Hand, a paleontologist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.”
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