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Researchers join to save gooney birds
Mar 3 2006 10:49PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - A pack of 10 gooney bird chicks _ still fuzzy and flightless _ flew into Kauai Friday _ on a chartered plane. Japanese researchers are set to raise the wild birds and thus get a leg up on saving their country's own endangered golden gooney.
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Scientists lament canceled NASA mission
Mar 3 2006 10:23PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Scientists on Friday lamented the cancellation of a NASA mission to orbit two asteroids, saying the project would have shed light on how the solar system formed.
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Yellowstone bison numbers down sharply
Mar 3 2006 9:04PM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The number of bison in Yellowstone National Park has declined sharply since late last summer, when the population hit a documented high of 4,900. A park spokesman attributed the drop to the hundreds of bison captured and sent to slaughter and to normal winter deaths.
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14th-century shipwreck found in Stockholm
Mar 3 2006 8:54PM (CT)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Archeologists have found a shipwreck from the late 1300s buried in the mud of a bay in central Stockholm, officials said Thursday.
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'Hippie Chimps' fast disappearing in Congo
Mar 3 2006 8:54PM (CT)
MBIHE-MOKELE, Congo (AP) - Even as Congolese villagers devise novel ways to snare the fast-disappearing bonobo, scientists are racing to save the gentle "hippie chimp" from extinction.
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Colo. officers see possible wolf on video
Mar 3 2006 8:53PM (CT)
WALDEN, Colo. (AP) - State wildlife officers spotted and caught on video what biologists believe was a wolf in northern Colorado, marking what could be the second time a wolf has wandered into the state since their reintroduction to Idaho and Yellowstone National Park in 1995.
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States ask Supreme Court for emissions aid
Mar 3 2006 8:42PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A group of states, cities and advocacy organizations appealed to the Supreme Court on Friday to get involved in a fight with the Bush administration over carbon dioxide emissions from cars and trucks.
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Boat engines cue dinner for sperm whales
Mar 3 2006 7:31PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Years ago, the sound of a boat sometimes spelled death for the heavily hunted sperm whale. Now, some of them have figured out, it means dinner.
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Miss. study looks at why levees flooded
Mar 3 2006 7:29PM (CT)
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) - Computer models only go so far. So engineers will soon be making waves in a 4-foot-wide model of the canal between New Orleans and neighboring Jefferson Parish.
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Prehistoric milling site found in Calif.
Mar 3 2006 6:58PM (CT)
AZUSA, Calif. (AP) - Archaeologists working on a housing development found a prehistoric milling site estimated to be 8,000 years old, officials said.
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60 of 76 deer killed at Wis. game farm ill
Mar 3 2006 6:52PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Sixty of the 76 deer killed at a Portage County game farm earlier this year tested positive for chronic wasting disease. It is the highest concentration of animals infected with the deadly ailment in a farm herd the state has found so far, officials said Friday.
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Prehistoric milling site found in Calif.
Mar 3 2006 6:24AM (CT)
AZUSA, Calif. (AP) - Archaeologists excavating a housing development site found a prehistoric milling area estimated to be 8,000 years old, officials said.
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