Topic: NATURE - on August 27, 2007 at 4:03:00 PM CEST
Piranha on Steroids
Be careful - your place in the food chain may get re-shuffled... How to reduce the urge to go skinny dipping Eat your heart out, Barry Bonds!
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Topic: NATURE - on August 26, 2007 at 5:58:00 PM CEST
Brazil reviving endangered Amazon manatee
Brazilian scientists hope that two captivity-raised male Amazon manatees they plan to reintroduce to the wild will spark a bout of reproduction that might save the endangered species from extinction.
In February 2008 scientists at the National Amazon Research Institute (INPA) plan to take the two manatees (Trichechus inungis) and drop them into the Rio Cuieiras, a tributary of the Rio Negro, where researchers hope they will seek out females and begin repopulating the area.
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Topic: NATURE - on August 19, 2007 at 12:33:00 PM CEST
The Giant's Causeway
The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns resulting from a volcanic eruption. It is located on the North East coast of Northern Ireland, about 3 kilometres (2 miles) north of the town of Bushmills. Legend has it that the Irish giant Finn McCool built the causeway to walk to Scotland to fight his Scottish counterpart Benandonner.
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Topic: NATURE - on August 18, 2007 at 12:18:00 PM CEST
Cleverest crows opt for two tools
Crows have shown that two tools are better than one when it comes to problem solving, scientists say.
A University of Auckland study has revealed that New Caledonian crows can use separate tools in quick succession to retrieve an out-of-reach snack.
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Topic: NATURE - on August 13, 2007 at 11:53:00 AM CEST
Worlds Weirdest Animals and Creatures
Our planet Earth is populated well enough with bizarre and astonishing creatures without the need for resorting to fiction. Some are rare — some are on the verge of extinction.
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Topic: NATURE - on August 13, 2007 at 11:50:00 AM CEST
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Topic: NATURE - on July 23, 2007 at 10:49:00 AM CEST
Coyotes commonly underfoot in cities
From a coyote's perspective, Golden Gate Park may seem about as close to paradise as you can get in the middle of San Francisco.
Plenty of water. Ample room to hide or make dens. Lots of feral cats and other tempting prey.
Two coyotes appeared to be defending the park as home territory last week, causing trouble for some domestic dogs that happened to wander by. Animal control authorities called to investigate decided to shoot the coyotes to remove any threat to public safety.
The episode underscores the increasingly urban lifestyle of North America's most widespread predator species. In fact, coyotes have been found roaming nearly every big American city, raising new issues of wildlife management for cities more used to dealing with tamer matters.
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Topic: NATURE - on July 23, 2007 at 10:42:00 AM CEST
Seeing eye to eye
Tiger cubs play with rabbits at a zoo in Wenling in east China's Zhejian province on Saturday.
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Topic: NATURE - on July 23, 2007 at 10:39:00 AM CEST
Starlings Flying Formations and Patterns
Starlings gathering in flocks, thousands of birds,flying in formations & patterns, before dropping down to roost in a copse of about 50 trees.
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Topic: NATURE - on July 16, 2007 at 10:36:00 AM CEST
Don't Fall Asleep in the Wrong Place
Maybe these photos will make you think twice about camping out in the jungle!!!
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Topic: NATURE - on July 4, 2007 at 3:05:00 PM CEST
Rare Pink Dolphin Seen in Louisiana Lake
It's sleek, fast, cute — and pink.
A charter-boat captain from Lake Charles, La., photographed a rare pink dolphin a couple of weeks ago in Calcasieu Lake, an estuary just north of the Gulf of Mexico in southwestern Louisiana.
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Topic: NATURE - on July 2, 2007 at 5:24:00 PM CEST
Mysterious "Night-Shining Clouds" Sighted
Still shrouded in mystery, these "night-shining clouds" were photographed illuminating the sky over Budapest, Hungary, on June 15.
They are among the first such noctilucent clouds pictured this year.
The clouds form in the upper layer of the Earth's atmosphere in summer.
Scientists don't know much about how the clouds form, or why they have been appearing more often at lower latitudes and glowing brighter.
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