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They will record plant species, forest structure, ash cover, soil properties, river sediment and the overall topography of the burned area.
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The principle would work, he says, for any species with a genetic structure to its population.
ECONOMIST: DNA tracking
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As a result, scientists know almost nothing about the species' habits or social structure.
MSN: Found: Whale thought extinct for 2 million years
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Today meteorologists use 10 cloud genera and 14 different species that describe the shape and structure of each type of cloud.
FORBES: Head in the Clouds
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You would, therefore, have expected that macroscopic differences between species are reflected in differences between the molecular structure of these proteins, but this is not so.
ECONOMIST: Genetic science
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"It's analysing the health of the reef in terms of species distribution, and mapping that against the structure of the reefs to discover what reefs are important, " said Mr Vevers.
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This is because the new fossil and 1470 share several features, including the flat face below the nose and dental structure, which once led to the species' separation.
BBC: Fossil key to human origins
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She also compared the structure and pattern of the fibres with those of modern animals and found that the species they most resembled was the emu also a bird and also, like T. rex, bipedal.
ECONOMIST: Some 68m-year-old evidence that birds are dinosaurs
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Coral reefs are home to 25 percent of the world's marine fish species, and cover 1 percent of the Earth's surface, making them the largest single living structure on Earth.
CNN: All About: Coral Reefs
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This book, which describes the descendants of a civilisation that has converted the material in its planets into a giant ringlike structure around its sun, was inspired by Freeman Dyson's idea that a truly technologically advanced species would endeavour to capture as much light as possible by building a spherical shell around its central star.
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