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Mirror test implies elephants self-aware
Oct 30 2006 11:02PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - If you're Happy and you know it, pat your head. That, in a peanut shell, is how a 34-year-old female Asian elephant in the Bronx Zoo showed researchers that pachyderms can recognize themselves in a mirror _ complex behavior observed in only a few other species.
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Ocean dead zone off Oregon dissipating
Oct 30 2006 9:31PM (CT)
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - An ocean dead zone off Oregon that killed fish, crabs and sea worms in an area bigger than Rhode Island last summer lasted nearly three times longer than any of its predecessors before dissipating with autumn's change in the weather, scientists said Monday.
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Scientist finds 100 million-year-old bee
Oct 30 2006 7:22PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A scientist has found a 100 million-year-old bee trapped in amber, making it possibly the oldest bee ever found. "I knew right away what it was, because I had seen bees in younger amber before," said George Poinar, a zoology professor at Oregon State University.
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Scientists uncover new bird flu strain
Oct 30 2006 7:21PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have discovered a new strain of bird flu that appears to sidestep current vaccines. It's infecting people as well as poultry in Asia, and some researchers fear its evolution may have been steered by the vaccination programs designed to protect poultry from earlier types of the H5N1 flu.
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Miami zoo hosts poop exhibit
Oct 30 2006 7:20PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Meadow muffins. Guano. Feces. Solid waste. Caca. The words for poop are endless, but the Miami Metrozoo has another term to add to the list: educational.
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Australians unveil test tube baby koalas
Oct 30 2006 7:20PM (CT)
GOLD COAST, Australia (AP) - Scientists on Monday unveiled three test tube baby koalas produced with new artificial insemination technology designed to ensure the species' survival.
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U.K. report: Warming will damage economy
Oct 30 2006 7:12PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Raising the stakes in the global warming dispute with the United States and China, Britain issued a sweeping report Monday warning that the Earth faces a calamity on the scale of the world wars and the Great Depression unless urgent action is taken.
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U.N.: Global warming gases on rise again
Oct 30 2006 4:12AM (CT)
BONN, Germany (AP) - The industrialized world's emissions of greenhouse gases are growing again, despite efforts under the Kyoto Protocol to cap them and stave off global warming, the United Nations reported Monday.
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