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'Extinct' frog species found again after 30 years
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SYDNEY – A species of frog thought to have been extinct for 30 years has been found in rural Australian farmland, officials said Thursday.The rediscovery of the yellow-spotted bell frog is a reminder of the need to protect natural habitats so "future generations can enjoy the noise and color of our n...
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New Species Found at Great Barrier Reef
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Panama "Alien" Really a Dead, Bloated Sloth
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Right-Handed Chimps Provide Clues
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Giant fish 'verges on extinction'
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What do you know--another tragedy out of China. This one comes in the form of an expected recently extinctified (made up word) giant freshwater fish known as the Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius). It used to haunt the mighty waters of the Yangtze River. These monsters measured in at around 21 f...
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Pea-Sized Seahorse Makes 'Top 10 Species' List
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A pea-sized seahorse, caffeine-free coffee and bacteria that live in hairspray are among the "top 10" species described in 2008, a group of scientists announced today. The top 10 new species also include the very tiny (a snake just a slither longer than 4 inches or 104 millimeters), the very long (an...
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Strange elongated skull discovered...
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What whimps...male lizards disguise as females in fights with more aggressive males...
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MELBOURNE (AFP) – Young male lizards in South Africa imitate females to fool aggressive older males into leaving them alone, in an example of transvestism in the natural world, researchers have found. The lizards not only avoid fights but gain access to females under the nose of their more macho riv...
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Looking to deepsea worms for a glue that could one day help humans...
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Clones dog fetches USd150,000
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First Beaver sighetd in Detroit river in 75 yrs
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DETROIT – Wildlife officials are celebrating the sighting of a beaver in the Detroit River for the first time in decades, signaling that efforts to clean up the waterway are paying off. The Detroit Free Press reports that a beaver lodge has been discovered in an intake canal at a Detroit Edison riverf...
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Study: 'Astonishing richness' in polar sea species
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BANGKOK, Thailand – The polar oceans are not biological deserts after all. A marine census released Monday documented 7,500 species in the Antarctic and 5,500 in the Arctic, including several hundred that researchers believe could be new to science. "The textbooks have said there is less di...
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7 Species That Get High More Than We Do
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Almost everyone loves drugs. Whether it's a cigarette break after a high-powered business meeting, a cold beer after a hot day on the job or a half-ounce of heroin injected directly into the scrotum to ease the stress of writing Internet comedy, people love their intoxicants. But that's not a human i...
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Climate Change May Encourage Invasive Species To Spread
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SALT LAKE CITY — Climate change will likely shuffle some of the West's most troublesome invasive weeds, adding to the burden faced by farms and ranchers in some areas and providing opportunities for native plant restoration in others, according to a new study. In many cases, a warming climate will p...
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London Polar Bear Sculpture Stranded On The Thames
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A new sculpture floating in the Thames River is catching eyes and raising awareness of melting ice caps. The sculpture, a realistic-looking polar bear stranded on an iceberg in the Thames, reminds onlookers that there are already victims of global warming... Read
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Species Bonanza...48 new pre-historic species discovered.
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In just four years, the Isle of Wight, otherwise known as "Dinosaur Island," has yielded the remains of 48 new animal species, including eight new dinosaurs, six dino-era mammals, and many different types of lizards, frogs and salamanders. Watch video about the strange phenomenon of d...
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The biggest snake discovered...was longer than city bus and could have eaten a cow...
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NEW YORK — Never mind the 40-foot snake that menaced Jennifer Lopez in the 1997 movie "Anaconda." Not even Hollywood could match a new discovery from the ancient world. Fossils from northeastern Colombia reveal the biggest snake ever discovered: a behemoth that stretched 42 to 45 feet l...
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Penguins on the march to extinction
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The emperor penguin, the species popularized in modern culture by the 2005 documentary "March of the Penguins," are at serious risk of extinction in parts of their range because of climate change, according to a new study published this week. Researchers at Woods Hol...
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War still rages on over Darwin
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WASHINGTON — Two centuries after Charles Darwin's birth on Feb. 12, 1809 , people still argue passionately about his theory of evolution. Was Darwin right? Should schoolchildren be exposed to contrary views in science class? These two controversies continue to rage, partly because both sides ar...
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111 yr old reptile is a father
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A CAPTIVE reptile in New Zealand has unexpectedly become a father at the ripe old age of 111 after receiving treatment for a cancer that made him hostile toward prospective mates. The centenarian tuatara, named Henry, was thought well past the mating game until he was caught canoodling w...
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Do we really need to protect this fish?
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"An Atlantic wolffish,is seen at a Portland, Maine, fish store, on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008. The Conservation Law Foundation asked the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday to list the Atlantic wolffish as endangered under the Endangered Species Act." Or...
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Group wants to rebrand fish as sea kittens...
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has launched a marketing campaign to rebrand fish as "sea kittens," a name the organization hopes will increase awareness and make the vertebrates more endearing to those who would eat them. "A lot of people don't realize that fis...
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An open letter to Obama...genetically modified organisms...
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When the delicate balance of nature is disturbed...things go bad!
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It seemed like a good idea at the time: Remove all the feral cats from a famous Australian island to save the native seabirds. But the decision to eradicate the felines from Macquarie island allowed the rabbit population to explode and, in turn, destroy much of its fragile vegetation that birds depen...
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Peacocks on the pill...
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Troubled Australian Fairy Penguins Protected By Friendly Sheepdogs
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Sheepdogs have helped to guard a colony of fairy penguins, and proven themselves to be very good at their job. So good, in fact, that conversationalists are pondering what other threatened animals these K9s can protect. A colony of fairy penguins on Warrnambool's Middle Island off the south coast o...
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21 new species in danger of extinction: UN convention
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Twenty-one animal species, including the cheetah, three dolphin families and an Egyptian vulture, were added to the list of those in danger of extinction by a UN conference that ended Friday. Six other bird species as well as manatees have also been placed on the list of animals benefiting from incr...
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Bring out the big guns...Brazil beefs up troops and forts to protect Amazon forest
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Defence Minister Nelson Jobim said the government will increase the number of troops in the Amazon from 17,000 to 30,000 and build 28 new forts on Indian land and conservation areas of the world’s largest rain forest. According to the newspaper report the project is an initiative from President Lul...
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Nude Protesters From Spain Are All About Animal Rights
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Are nude animal rights protests old hat? We got word of a protest by AnimaNaturalis, an animal rights group from Spain, in which a semi-nude woman was painted like a wild cat of some sort and remained in a cage in a public area with a sign protesting keeping circus animals in cages. But we had an awfully ha...
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