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short-tailed

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Adj.1.short-tailed - having a short tail
caudate, caudated - having a tail or taillike appendage


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Phylogenetic analyses, based on partial medium- and large-segment sequences, support an ancient evolutionary origin of a genetically distinct hantavirus detected by reverse transcription--PCR in tissues of northern short-tailed shrews (Blarina brevicauda) captured in Minnesota in August 1998.
New fossil data unearthed in Bermuda indicate that the North Atlantic population of short-tailed albatross died off around 400,000 years ago, when an era of global warming caused the oceans to rise, says Storrs L.
Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) With a population of fewer than 600 breeding individuals, the short-tailed albatross is one of the world's rarest birds.
 
 
 
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