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While owls and foxes have earned a reputation for wisdom and cunning, the humble goldfish has become popularly known for its ignorance, swimming contentedly around its bowl as its memory was wiped every three seconds.
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Alishia Beckham is on the front lines defending the United States from foreign invaders _ armed with weapons that include a hand mirror and a flashlight.
made popular Sep 1 2008
Palaeontologists may have found a hitherto undiscovered dinosaur species when they unearthed the remains of a 120 million-year-old giant animal near the village of...
made popular Aug 30 2008
AP, Washington
The Bush administration is providing insufficient time for public comment as it seeks to loosen rules protecting endangered species, representatives of more than 100...
made popular Aug 22 2008
Scientists have found that DNA can be randomly rearranged because of odd repeating structures that have been noticed in the genetic code of higher animals.
made popular Aug 16 2008
Environmentalism is synonymous with loss. We fret about the loss of the rain forest, the loss of the Arctic ice cap and, eventually, the loss of a livable planet to...
made popular Aug 14 2008
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A Bush administration proposal that would eliminate the input of independent government scientists in some endangered species reviews would be tossed out if Democrat...
made popular Aug 13 2008
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Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne is defending proposed changes to the endangered species law, saying they will ensure the statute is not used as a “back...
made popular Aug 11 2008
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Tiny foreign mussels assault drinking water sources in California and Nevada. A deadly fish virus spreads swiftly through the Great Lakes and beyond. Japanese shore...
made popular Aug 4 2008
Check out some fantastic images of species discovered in the Southeast Asia’s Celebes Sea.
made popular Aug 3 2008
AP, San Francisco
An appeals judge says the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate the water discharged from ships as a way to protect local ecosystems from invasive species.A...
made popular Jul 23 2008
AP, Washington
With climate change increasingly threatening the survival of plants and animals, scientists say it may become necessary to move some species to save them.Dubbed...
made popular Jul 17 2008
Thousands of new plant and animal species were discovered in 2007, though only 10 were bizarre enough, lethal enough or just plain cool enough to garner spots on a new...
made popular Jun 19 2008
AP, Albuquerque
Environmentalists are seeking emergency protection for nearly three dozens rare plants, animals and insects under the Endangered Species Act, saying all are at risk due...
made popular Jun 16 2008
AP, Philadelphia
Frank Gallagher spent 37 years as a mailroom supervisor at a natural science museum _ so long that he used to wisecrack that he should be part of the collection.Now he...
made popular Jun 9 2008
Indian scientists have discovered 67 new animal species, including fishes, spiders and crop eating insects, and 29 plant species, including grass and flower varieties,...
made popular Jun 5 2008
AP, Washington
A congressional investigator says at least four top Interior Department officials may have inappopriately interfered in decisions on protection of endangered...
made popular May 21 2008
The world’s species are declining at a rate “unprecedented since the extinction of the dinosaurs”, a census of the animal kingdom has revealed. The...
made popular May 17 2008
Humans are arguably the most bizarre creatures in the animal kingdom. The proof is in the many gross, unnecessary, contradictory and simply inexplicable things we do....
made popular May 9 2008
AP, Albuquerque
Environmentalists are suing the federal government, claiming promises to whittle down a backlog of plants and animals being considered for endangered species protection...
made popular Mar 25 2008
AP, Washington
A conservation group sued the Interior Department on Thursday seeking documents about decisions on endangered species the group alleges were tainted by political...
made popular Dec 27 2007
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Indonesia is set to liberate 17 endangered pygmy kangaroos to the Papuan rain forest after rescuing them from illegal traders and private zoos. However, the number of...
made popular Jun 6 2007
The Yangtze dolphins or baiji (white dolphins) are river dolphins that are found only in the Yangtze river of China.
Recent research shows that their populations have...
made popular Dec 3 2006
Testosterone is not the only hormone that stirs up aggression in males but female hormone estrogen and sunlight also play an important role in stirring it up in male...
made popular Oct 19 2006
Natura 2000 is a European Union programmed to preserve the 25-nation bloc’s most important wildlife areas and species. According to World Wildlife Fund (WWF), ...
made popular Aug 14 2006
Researchers have discovered a unique strain of mouse. It can re grow body parts without any scarring. They hope this could lead to new therapies for people. It is...
made popular Apr 19 2006
Some lands on earth may pose some of the greatest extinction dangers
for wildlife in the future. Though apparently, from the frigid northern
Canada and Alaska to...
made popular Mar 8 2006
We all know the duck-billed dinosaurs’ massive crests help it smell. But, its actually not so. This has been kicking up debates or decades. But, a U of T...
made popular Feb 3 2006
Global Warming is not sparing any corner of the world. And Alaskans are living with the “Global Warming” hype. Warming in the Arctic is stimulating the...
made popular Dec 3 2005
So, time to take steps to protect some dwindling species has come. The world’s second largest shark, a bird found in the Garden of Eden and Central Asia’s...
made popular Nov 26 2005
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