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Octopuses observed avoiding predators
Mar 24 2005 10:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Octopuses, known for using camouflage to avoid predators, have been observed apparently trying to sneak away by walking on two arms while pretending to be a bunch of algae. Two kinds of octopus were seen to use different ways of walking along the sea floor, researchers were reporting in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
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Experts warn ships may bring lake invaders
Mar 24 2005 8:00PM (CT)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Ships navigating the St. Lawrence Seaway may carry more than coal and grain through the Great Lakes, say environmentalists, who warned Thursday about potential secondary "cargo" like killer shrimp or monkey gobies.
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Weather service to keep hurricane 'line'
Mar 24 2005 7:59PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The National Weather Service will keep using a "skinny black line" to project hurricane tracks on forecast maps although some officials worry people in wider warning areas on either side may fail to take precautions.
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Scientists recover tissue from T. Rex
Mar 24 2005 7:55PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex.
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Panda undergoes artificial insemination
Mar 24 2005 1:09PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A rare possible panda pregnancy was announced by the top official at Zoo Atlanta on Wednesday. "We have some exciting news," zoo president and CEO Dennis Kelly said at a news conference just outside the panda compound.
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Museum to show dinosaurs being taken apart
Mar 24 2005 10:48AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - What could be better than seeing the first tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered? Watching it being taken apart. Visitors to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, which has one of the oldest and largest dinosaur collections in the nation, will be able to watch as the museum's collection of fossilized dinosaur skeletons are taken apart before a renovation of the museum's almost century-old Dinosaur Hall.
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Fighting cows to face new doping tests
Mar 24 2005 6:38AM (CT)
SION, Switzerland (AP) - Cows that lock horns in an annual test of strength in the Swiss Alps must face renewed doping tests, authorities have decided.
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