The MBIE Migration Data Explorer has the information (https://mbienz.shinyapps.io/migration data explorer/ ) back to 2010, albeit needs a bit of knowledge to use it. Specifically, arrival and departure data from Customs states Resident Visa for all residence class visas other than Australians (who are captured and listed separately), but for INZ application data, Permanent Resident Visa (PRV) applications are reported separately from other residence class visas as Returning Residence Visa in the application categories (this relates to the visa framework in the Immigration Act). This category also includes Variation of Travel Conditions applications, so requires some drilling to get PRV numbers.
Dire wolves were made famous by
Game of Thrones and the Stark family, but the creatures did actually exist and new research has revealed some interesting facts about them. They existed for more than 100,000 years up until about 10,000 years ago when they became extinct.
Researchers from Durham University in the United Kingdom as well as scientists from the University of Oxford, Ludwig Maximilian University in Germany, the University of Adelaide, and UCLA all helped with sequencing DNA that was extracted from the teeth and ear-bones of five fossils belonging to dire wolves that date back more than 50,000 years and that were found in Wyoming, Idaho, Ohio, and Tennessee.
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The iconic and terrifying dire wolf, made famous in the television series âGame of Thrones , prowled through North America until about 11,000 years ago or perhaps more, after which they went extinct. They were once believed to be closely related to living wolves. But research suggests that this is not true. Extinct dire wolves split off from other wolves nearly six million years ago and were only a distant relative of todayâs wolves, according to a new study, which puts to bed a mystery that biologists have pondered for more than 100 years.
The ancestors of the gray wolf and the much smaller coyote evolved in Eurasia and are thought to have moved into North America less than 1.37M years ago, relatively recently in evolutionary time. An international team sequenced the ancient DNA of five dire wolf sub-fossils from Wyoming, Idaho, Ohio and Tennessee, dating back to over 50,000 years ago. The collaboration of 49 researchers across