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Details revealed about huge dinosaurs
Apr 17 2006 9:48PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists are learning more about what appears to be one of the biggest meat-eating dinosaurs known, a two-legged beast whose bones were found several years ago in the fossil-rich Patagonia region of Argentina.
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Hawaii researchers seek interstellar wind
Apr 17 2006 9:31PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii astronomers are analyzing data they gathered from the Sahara desert to find evidence of interstellar wind blowing through the solar system.
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Study: Bay Area quake would be staggering
Apr 17 2006 9:30PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - If an earthquake like the one that devastated the city in 1906 struck today, the toll would be staggering: tens of thousands of buildings damaged and hundreds of people dead, according to a new study.
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Grants fund study of suburban bobcats
Apr 17 2006 9:06PM (CT)
COLCHESTER, Vt. (AP) - Hidden in the brush behind suburban homes one afternoon earlier this month was a 26-pound female bobcat. She was on the move.
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Rare birds' deaths roil S. African island
Apr 17 2006 7:00PM (CT)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - The wind-swept island where former President Nelson Mandela spent most of his 27 years in jail is prized nearly as much for its teeming wildlife as its historical significance.
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Park officials release captured bison
Apr 17 2006 6:44PM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Authorities at Yellowstone National Park released most of the 300 bison that had been held on fenced-in pasture for nearly a month, a park spokesman said Monday. Officials hoped the greening grass would keep the bison from straying outside the park in search of forage.
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New technology could help clean manure
Apr 17 2006 6:31PM (CT)
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A new technology being promoted by Green Mountain Power and the University of Vermont might clean up manure before it's spread on farm fields, reducing the chances for air and water pollution.
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Weather satellite to monitor South America
Apr 17 2006 4:18PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - South American meteorologists are getting a boost from space: A U.S. weather satellite long used for tracking hurricanes and other wild weather will soon be moved over a continent plagued by its own costly natural disasters.
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Rabbit restoration effort under way
Apr 17 2006 9:45AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The numbers of New England cottontail rabbits are on the decline in Maine, with only 300 of the animals remaining in a small range in the southern end of the state.
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Tiny owl may be taken off endangered list
Apr 17 2006 5:48AM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A tiny desert owl is set to be taken off the federal government's endangered species list, drawing praise from developers but protests from environmentalists.
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