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Scientists have discovered
that it spends several months of
every year out
of the water and living
inside trees.
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Hunter’s camera
captures images of a
‘unicorn deer’
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Aquatic
Insect Bling
Caddis fly larvae
usually form
manufacturing
sheaths by spinning
silk with sand,
minerals, plant
particles, and bits
of bone they find in
their aquatic
environments. French
artist Hubert Duprat
collects the larvae,
carefully strips
their shells, and
then puts them in
aquaria filled with
stuff like pearls,
rubies, gold, and
diamonds. The larvae
make new coverings
out of these
materials.
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Chaos
Theory
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African Clawed, Meat-Eating
Frogs Kill and Eat Everything In California Pond They
Also Create Toxic Pond Sediment
NBC NEWS
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Bald
Eagle Fishes
A Pond In Columbia, MD
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Brave New
World
US
Geneticist
Mice first,
humans next!
It
can runs
for
hours,
it lives
longer,
has more
sex, and
eats
more
without
gaining
weight.
Chalk it
up to a
change
in a
single
gene.
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For The
Inquisitive
Canine
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The
Neighborhood
Is Getting A
Little Wild
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Live
New Jersey
Deer Cam
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I Want
One!
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The Pixel
Armadillo
Aerospace
Volunteer
Rocket
Scientists
Check out
the related
videos too!
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NASA's Return to the
Moon Trailer
To
promote NASA's plan
to return to the
moon, the space
agency
created a dramatic
short video that
plays just like the
trailer for a
Hollywood sci-fi
blockbuster.
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HUMMINGBIRDS - AMAZING PHOTOS
This is something I have never
seen before, or ever even
heard of. This lady
lives in a Hummingbird fly zone.
As they migrated, about 20
of them were in her yard. Just
for a lark, she took
a little red dish and filled it
with sugar water and this is the
result.
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After 250 Years of Classifying Life, 90 Percent
Remains Unknown
11/13/07 Live Science: Most people can
tell the difference between some types of berries,
or bugs or trees, but much of the planet's life
remains unnamed and unseen.
Swedish naturalist, Carl Linnaeus, tried long ago to
set humanity on track to remedy that.
His book, "Systema Naturae," first published in 1735
at 13 pages long, proposed a hierarchical system for
classifying plants and animals and launched an
effort to identify and inventory all the world's
living things.
Now 250 years after publication of the book's latter
editions, scientists still have discovered as few as
10 percent of the species now living on earth, said
Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson, who spoke here
last week at an event at the New York Botanical
Garden to celebrate a visit of Linnaeus' personal
copy of the book's first edition.
"We live, in short, on a little-known planet. When
dealing with the living world, we are flying mostly
blind," Wilson said. "When we try to diagnose the
health of an ecosystem, such as a lake or a forest,
in order to save and stabilize it we are in the
position of a doctor trying to treat a patient,
knowing only 10 percent of organs."
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Comet
17P/Holmes
A comet that has
unexpectedly brightened in the
past couple of weeks and now is
visible to the naked eye is
attracting professional and
amateur interest.
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The comet is
exploding and its
coma, a cloud of gas
and dust illuminated
by the sun, has
grown to be bigger
than the planet
Jupiter. The comet
lacks the tail
usually associated
with such celestial
bodies but can be
seen in the northern
sky, in the
constellation
Perseus, as a fuzzy
spot of light about
as bright as the
stars in the Big
Dipper.
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The world's bee colonies are
dying mysteriously, and a study
from Landau University suggests
that mobile phones may be to
blame.
The colonies are subject to
"Colony Collapse Disorder,"
(science-ese for "we don't know
where all these bees have gone")
and the disorder accounts for
the death of anywhere from 50-70
percent of bee colonies. Since
bees pollinate most crops,
flowers and fruiting trees, the
end of bees is seriously bad
news for the world's food
supply.
It's been long understood that
bees respond to electromagnetic
radiation.
Dr Jochen Kuhn at Germany's Landau
University has shown that
bees don't return to their hives
when cellphones are present.
The study doesn't prove that
cellphones are responsible for
CCD
but it does
provide evidence that mobile phones
are implicated in the death of
hives.
The alarm was first sounded last
autumn, but has now hit half of
all American states.
The West Coast is thought to
have lost 60 per cent of its
commercial bee population, with
70 per cent missing on the East
Coast.
CCD
has since spread to Germany,
Switzerland, Spain, Portugal,
Italy and Greece. And last week
John Chapple,
one of London's biggest
bee-keepers, announced that 23
of his 40 hives have been
abruptly abandoned.
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ABOUT CCD (Colony Collapse
Disorder)
Other apiarists have recorded
losses in Scotland, Wales and
north-west England, but the
Department of the Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs insisted:
"There is absolutely no evidence
of
CCD
in the UK."
The implications of the spread
are alarming. Most of the
world's crops depend on
pollination by bees.
|Albert Einstein once said that
if the bees disappeared, "man
would have only four years of
life left".
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