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Beauty and the Beak
Eagle wounded by poacher gets new beak, new look
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS,
AP
Posted: 2008-06-06 07:41:01
ST. MARIES, Idaho (AP) - More than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty can finally live up to her name - with the help of volunteers.
Father at the ripe old age of 111
And this is just the beginning for New Zealand tuatara’s zoo family
The Associated Press
updated 11:07 a.m. CT, Tues., Jan. 27, 2009
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A captive reptile in New Zealand has become a father at the ripe old age of 111 after receiving treatment for a cancer that made him hostile toward prospective mates.
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The other day I was at work & needed a sweet thing ... I thought about a chocolate chip cookie (I work right next to my local grocery store) but when I got over to the store I gravitated to the chocolate & settled on an Endangered Species Dark Chocolate Bar with cranberries & almonds ... it was sooooooooooooooooooo good ...New Rob Interview with UK's Sunday Times
On a balmy autumn day in Vancouver, a young man is longing for a walk outside in the sunshine, and deciding against it. Far easier for him to stay in his hotel room, cocooned in five-star luxury with a mobile phone that has run out of charge, safe at least from the girls chanting his name outside. Robert Pattinson, 23 and from Barnes in southwest London, ought still to be one of Hollywood’s beautiful dreamers, moving up the ranks of movie acting, enjoying his American adventure, his guitar, his good looks.Spooky new spider weaves monster webs
One of the largest orb-weaving spiders had remained hidden from entomologists in plain sight. The new species of giant golden orb weaver (Nephila komaci), which builds meter-wide webs, entangled a doctoral student who stumbled upon a specimen in a museum collection. "It was surprising to find a giant female Nephila from South Africa in the collection…that did not match any of the described species," Matjaz Kuntner, who is now chair of the Institute of Biology of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and co-author of the paper, said in a prepared statement.Let pandas die out, says noted naturalist
LONDON - Conservationists should "pull the plug" on giant pandas and let them die out, according to BBC presenter and naturalist Chris Packham. "Here's a species that, of its own accord, has gone down an evolutionary cul-de-sac," Packham told Radio Times magazine. Packham believes that money spent on conserving the panda would be better invested in other animals as the species is not strong enough to survive alone.Some animals, photos and stats, Are they endangered?
Bottlenose Dolphin
Where they live: Scotland, Caribbean, New Zealand, other places
Conservation Status: Bottlenose dolphins are not endangered. Their future is stable because of their abundance and high adaptability. However, some specific populations are threatened due to various environmental changes.
An extinct animal has been brought back to life for the first time after being cloned from frozen tissue.
Extinct ibex is resurrected by cloning An extinct animal has been brought back to life for the first time after being cloned from frozen tissue. By Richard Gray and Roger Dobson Last Updated: 11:47PM GMT 31 Jan 2009 (Tlegraph,UK) Young Spanish ibex (Capra pyrenaica), Sierra de Gredos, Spain Photo: Jose Luis GOMEZ de FRANCISCO/naturepl.com The Pyrenean ibex, a form of wild mountain goat, was officially declared extinct in 2000 when the last-known animal of its kind was found dead in northern Spain. Shortly before its death, scientists preserved skin samples of the goat, a subspecies of the Spanish ibex that live in mountain ranges across the country, in liquid nitrogen.JOHN STOSSEL GIVES HIS TAKE ON TOUGH SUBJECTS, ON “YOU CAN’T EVEN TALK ABOUT IT,” FRIDAY, MAY 8 ON “20/20″
JOHN STOSSEL GIVES HIS TAKE ON TOUGH SUBJECTS, ON “YOU CAN’T EVEN TALK ABOUT IT,” FRIDAY, MAY 8 ON “20/20″ May 7, 2009 by J!-ENT From pregnancy discrimination laws to doing less for senior citizens, from farming endangered animals to letting athletes do steroids, John Stossel brings us his take on tough subjects in an hour-long report, “You Can’t Even Talk About It,” airing on “20/20,” FRIDAY, MAY 8 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. Reports include: America Needs to Do Less for Its Senior Citizens: Stossel reports when Medicare was created, senior citizens did not live as long, and medicine offered fewer wonderful but expensive treatments. Now Medicare is headed towards bankruptcy.House Moves to Save Wild Horses
WASHINGTON — Galloping to the aid of the nation's wild horses and burros, the House voted Friday to rescue them from the possibility of a government-sponsored slaughter and give them millions more acres to roam. But the effort may get penned up in the Senate. The bill passed the House, 239-185, with Republican opponents arguing that it underscored wrongheaded Democratic priorities by focusing on animals instead of people at a time when the nation's unemployment rate is approaching double digits.
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