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In just 40 samples, we detected 49 species spanning mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish, in the Rainforest House( at Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark) we even detected the guppies in the pond, the two-toed sloth and the boa. When sampling air in just one outdoor site, we detected many of the animals with access to an outdoor enclosure in that part of Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark, for example kea, ostrich and rhino. – Kristine Bohmann	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The egg belonged to an individual that was at least 23 feet long -- a giant marine reptile. – Lucas Legendre	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Once the species is identified, then a suitable location is found for the reptile. – Richard Crowley	Found on CNN 4 years ago
State reptile specialists say it is between 4 and 5 feet long. – Chicago PD spokesman Anthony Gugliemi	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Over the past half century, humanity has witnessed the destruction of 60 % of mammal, bird, fish and reptile populations around the world, we are the first generation to truly comprehend the reality of what we're doing to the natural world, and we may be the last with the chance to avert much of the damage. With this knowledge comes an extraordinary burden of responsibility that we all share. – Irish President Michael Higgins	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We believe that after the master sex gene on the sex chromosomes does its work, a cascade of gene regulatory processes (those governing development) is initiated leading to a male or a female hatchling reptile, for the most part, these regulatory processes are buffered in some way from varying temperatures in the nest, but only to a point. At high temperatures, the control of the master sex genes is eroded, and temperature brings in its influence. – Arthur Georges	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
There's such a huge gap in our understanding around the time when the common ancestor of birds and crocodilians was alive — there isn't a lot out there in the fossil record from that part of the reptile family tree. – Sterling Nesbitt	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. – Edmund Burke	added by anonymous 10 years ago

In just 40 samples, we detected 49 species spanning mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish, in the Rainforest House( at Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark) we even detected the guppies in the pond, the two-toed sloth and the boa. When sampling air in just one outdoor site, we detected many of the animals with access to an outdoor enclosure in that part of Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark, for example kea, ostrich and rhino.

– Kristine Bohmann

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The egg belonged to an individual that was at least 23 feet long -- a giant marine reptile.

– Lucas Legendre

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Once the species is identified, then a suitable location is found for the reptile.

– Richard Crowley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

State reptile specialists say it is between 4 and 5 feet long.

– Chicago PD spokesman Anthony Gugliemi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Over the past half century, humanity has witnessed the destruction of 60 % of mammal, bird, fish and reptile populations around the world, we are the first generation to truly comprehend the reality of what we're doing to the natural world, and we may be the last with the chance to avert much of the damage. With this knowledge comes an extraordinary burden of responsibility that we all share.

– Irish President Michael Higgins

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We believe that after the master sex gene on the sex chromosomes does its work, a cascade of gene regulatory processes (those governing development) is initiated leading to a male or a female hatchling reptile, for the most part, these regulatory processes are buffered in some way from varying temperatures in the nest, but only to a point. At high temperatures, the control of the master sex genes is eroded, and temperature brings in its influence.

– Arthur Georges

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There's such a huge gap in our understanding around the time when the common ancestor of birds and crocodilians was alive — there isn't a lot out there in the fossil record from that part of the reptile family tree.

– Sterling Nesbitt

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

– Edmund Burke

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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