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New leopard species found in Borneo
Mar 14 2007 10:20PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - A type of leopard found on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo and believed to be related to its mainland cousin is in fact a completely new cat species, WWF said Thursday. The conservation group said American scientists compared the DNA of the clouded leopard with that of its mainland cousin and determined the two populations diverged some 1.4 million years ago.
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Israel urged to halt archaeological work
Mar 14 2007 8:04PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - A UNESCO panel has urged Israel to immediately halt archaeological work at a Jerusalem holy site that has angered Muslims around the world.
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Endangered rabbits return to Washington
Mar 14 2007 6:15PM (CT)
EPHRATA, Wash. (AP) - The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit is finally back in its old stomping grounds, munching olive-drab sagebrush and hopefully doing what rabbits do best.
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Possible seas discovered on Saturn moon
Mar 14 2007 6:15PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Scientists have discovered what appear to be sea-size bodies of liquid, probably methane or ethane, on the surface of Saturn's largest moon, including one about as big as Montana.
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N.C. zoo gets koala from San Diego zoo
Mar 14 2007 6:13PM (CT)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Great, a 5-year-old male koala, has been sent to Riverbanks Zoo with one goal in mind _ make new koalas. But zoo officials say any expansion of their koala family won't happen overnight. Great takes a while to get used to his new home and he has never been allowed to breed.
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Farmer wants to sell mammoth skeleton
Mar 14 2007 6:05PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A 76-year-old Kenosha County man in whose cornfield the skeleton of a mammoth believed to be about 12,500 years old was dug up in 1994 is interested in selling it, and officials of the Milwaukee Public Museum are interested in it.
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Study: Coal industry faces bleak future
Mar 14 2007 6:02PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The coal industry faces a bleak future unless ways are developed on a commercial scale to capture and store carbon dioxide in the campaign against global warming, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Okla. teen wins $100,000 science prize
Mar 14 2007 11:42AM (CT)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A 17-year-old girl won a scholarship worth $100,000 for building an inexpensive yet accurate spectrograph that identifies the "fingerprints" of different molecules.
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