Kuwait Reports New Case of Birdflu in Ostrich

Kuwait said on Sunday it has found a new case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in the south of the Gulf Arab state near the Saudi border.// "We now have 46 infected focal points after the latest finding in an ostrich in Wafra," said health ministry spokesman Ahmed al-Shatti. "We no...

Wynonna Judd and alli(R) Hit The Road for a Healthier America

... Peak Pkwy. 3/13 4pm-12am ostrich Festival - 2250 South McQueen Chandler AZ Tumbleweed Park Road 3/14 10am-8 pm ostrich Festival Phoenix AZ 3/15 7am-10am St. ...

Ostriches Infected With Bird Flu in Mossel Bay

...ropean Union (EU) announced a ban on the import of ostrich meat from the Western Cape districts of Mossel Bay and Riversdale. Also an entire ostrich farm near Mossel Bay was placed under quarantine. ...ruger, chief executive of the SAOBC (South African ostrich Business Chamber) said that the ban did not affect...

The outbreak of Avian flu at Cape Farm held under check

... A quarantine is under effect in an ostrich farm, after fears of avian attack resulted in the culling of nearly sixty ostriches//. The agriculture department is happy with the fast reaction of ...

Ostrich in Biological News

New discovery suggests trees evolved camouflage defense against long extinct predator

...a. Before the arrival of humans New Zealand had no native land mammals, but was home to moa, giant flightless birds, closely related to the modern ostrich and the top herbivore predator in the food chain. However moa were hunted to extinction 750 years ago. The Araliaceae tree has several defences whi...

T. rex quicker than Becks, say scientists

...tely predicted a top running speed of just under the 8 metres per second of T. rex. Musculoskeletal details of a 30kg South American emu and a 65kg ostrich were fed into the program next and top running speeds of 13m/s (about 30mph) and 15m/s (35mph) were calculated respectively. The process was then r...

Dinosaurs -- stones did not help with digestion

...elatives of the dinosaurs possess. Among these the ostrich is the largest herbivore. For their investigations...uartz and granite as food to ostriches on a German ostrich farm. After the ostriches had been slaughtere...extrapolate over four orders of magnitude, from an ostrich weighing 89 kilograms to a sauropod weighing 50,00...

NC State scientist finds soft tissue in T. rex bones

...ls were present, and many of the small microstructures present in the T. rex sample displayed the same appearance as the blood and bone cells from the ostrich sample. Schweitzer then duplicated her findings with at least three other well-preserved dinosaur specimens, one 80-million-year-old hadrosaur and ...