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An artist's rendering of the Bunostegos, a cow-sized, plant-eating reptile that roamed the ancient central desert of Pangea more than 250 million years ago Bumpy-faced beasts dominated before dinos

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Just before the first known dinosaurs emerged, a bumpy-faced beast dominated the world's only desert.
Subjects: fossils, palaeontology Locations: niger

The UN says we need to change how we produce food, and also how we distribute it: more than half the food produced worldwide today is lost, wasted or thrown away due to inefficiencies Food supply may fall 25% by 2050, says UN

Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Up to a quarter of global food production could be lost by 2050 due to the combined impact of such problems as climate change, land degradation and water scarcity, the United Nations says.
Subjects: poverty, climate-change, land-pollution, water-pollution, sustainable-and-alternative-farming Locations: china, kenya, niger

The Mesozoic cow grazed on ground-level plants, sucking them up through its vacuum-like mouthCow-like dinosaur sucked up plants

Friday, 16 November 2007
Palaeontologists have unveiled a 110-million-year old African dinosaur with a mouth that sucked up plants like a vacuum cleaner and had almost translucent skull bones.
Subjects: dinosaurs, palaeontology Locations: france, niger, united-states

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