In this photo provided by the office of Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Sen. Murkowski hugs a 63-pound king salmon she caught July 7, 2006, along the Kenai River in Alaska, during the annual Kenai River Classic. The event, primarily attended by senators, corporate executives and lobbyists, raised about $800,000 for river conservation. BP Vice President Peggy Hudson caught the largest fish, a 67-pound king.
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Israeli scientists said on Wednesday they had discovered a prehistoric ecosystem dating back millions of years.
The discovery was made in a cave near the central Israeli city of Ramle during rock drilling at a quarry. Scientists were called in and soon found eight previously unknown species of crustaceans and invertebrates similar to scorpions.
"Until now eight species of animals were found in the cave, all of them unknown to science," said Dr Hanan Dimantman, a biologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He said the cave's ecosystem probably dates back around five million years when the Mediterranean Sea covered parts of Israel.
The cave was completely sealed off from the world, including from water and nutrients seeping through rock crevices above. Scientists who discovered the cave believe it has been intact for millions of years.
"Every species we examined had no eyes which means they lost their sight due to evolution," said Dimantman.
Samples of the animals discovered in the cave were sent for DNA tests which found they were unique, he said. The cave has been closed off as scientists conduct a more detailed survey.
"This is a cave of fantastic biodiversity," Dimantman said.
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A Sloth bear eats a Barbary macaque monkey at the Beekse Bergen Safari Park in Hilvarenbeek, south Netherlands on Sunday, May 14, 2006. Bears killed and ate a monkey in a Dutch zoo in front of horrified visitors, the zoo said Monday.(AP Photo/Marco Barelds)
Read more: Bears Eat Monkey in Front of Zoo Visitors - Yahoo! News
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Hot lava flows from the Mount Merapi volcano close to Tunggularum village near the city of Yogyakarta, Central Java on May 13, 2006. (Dwi Oblo/Reuters)
Read more: Indonesia volcano on "danger" status - Yahoo! News
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In this photo provided by the USGS, a helicopter flies past a new 'slab' rock growth in the crater of Mount St. Helens, Friday, April 28, 2006. If the skies are clear as forecast, volcano watchers who turn out for the reopening of the Johnston Ridge Observatory on Friday, May 5, 2006, may get a view of a hulking slab of molten rock. (AP Photo/USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, Dan Dzurisin)
Read more: Rock Slab Growing at Mount St. Helens - Yahoo! News
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BANGKOK, Thailand - A magnitude-8.0 earthquake struck early Thursday near the South Pacific nation of Tonga, the U.S. Geological Survey said. A tsunami warning was issued for Fiji and New Zealand.
The temblor, classified by the USGS as a "great" quake, struck 95 miles south of Neiafu, Tonga, and 1,340 miles north-northeast of Auckland, New Zealand.
The U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued the tsunami warning but said it was not known whether the quake generated a potentially deadly giant wave.
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The bottom of this container is 6" in diameter.
I don't mind bugs that much but when I turned and looked at what the cat was meowing at, a few inches from my face was this freaky House centipede - YIKES! If you would like to see an mini video clip of this thing go here.
I would like to see Manocloth stick this up his nose.
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I mentioned this to a few friends and they thought I was nuts so I posted some info about it...
Twelve years and counting — the saga of the tots’
tub toys continues. On January 10, 1992, 28,800 turtles, ducks, beavers and frogs packed in a cargo container — called Floatees by the manufacturer — splashed into the mid-Pacific, where the 45th parallel intersects the International Date Line (44.7?N, 178.1?E). During August- September, 1992, after 2,200 miles adrift, hundreds beached near Sitka, Alaska. Twelve years later, in 2004, beachcombers were still ?nding the bath-time critters.
At Sitka’s second annual beachcomber fair held on
25 July 2004, Dean Orbison and son Tyler Orbison, 22, exhibited a hamper full of 111 toys they’d beachcombed nearby Sitka during 1993-2004. The basket held comparable numbers: 18% turtles, 35% ducks, 26% beavers, and 21% frogs. During years at sea, the ducks and beavers faded to white while the turtles and frogs remained original blue and green, respectively. Animal bites and the surf smashing them against rocks had ruptured many.
Through the years, Dean patiently recorded the date and location where they found ninety of the fist-sized toys.
Read more: Rubber Duckies...
Read more: CNN.com - How sneakers, toys and hockey gear help ocean science - May. 28, 2003
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Manar Maged was born March 30, 2004, with a rare birth defect called craniopagus parasiticus. The defect occurs when an embryo begins to split into identical twins but fails to complete the process, leaving an undeveloped conjoined twin in the womb.
The 14-hour separation surgery was performed 13 months ago in the Nile Delta town of Benha, 25 miles north of Cairo. It was the first of its kind in the Middle East.
After that surgery, Maged underwent five more operations to insert a valve to drain excess fluid from her brain, Hefnawi said. When she was admitted to the hospital a month ago with a fever, doctors decided to affix an external shunt, but she contracted an infection again.
There were 10 previous cases like Maged's throughout the world when she underwent surgery last year, but Maged was the only one to survive the procedure, doctors said at the time.
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A group of 269 biologists and other scientists from around the country asked the Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday not to lift the protections given to the Yellowstone grizzly bear by the Endangered Species Act.
Doing that, they said, could jeopardize its survival.
A letter from the scientists came on the last day of the comment period on the agency's plan to remove protection for the bear. The service has said that the bear population, estimated at 500 to 600, is fully recovered and growing at 4 percent a year. There are safeguards to restore protection, federal biologists say, if the numbers decline.
Some environmental groups, including the National Wildlife Federation, support the move to remove the bear from the endangered list.
The letter from opponents of the move says the Yellowstone grizzly is cut off from other bears, and therefore new sources of DNA. Because of that, the population needs to be 2,000 to 3,000, the scientists say, to survive a catastrophic event, like disease or the loss of a critical food source.
via the N.Y. Times
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These 2 guys claim they caught a 25 ib. Largemouth Bass. The previous record was like 22 lbs, (I have no idea how many grams that is). Instead of keeping it they released it! Now of course it can't be verified.
Did you know that if you hold a Bass by its lower lip it paralyzes it?
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This image provided by the Journal Science shows a Laonastes, the only living representative of the otherwise extinct Distomydae, a family of rodents that lived in south Asia and Japan. It has the face of a rat and the tail of a skinny squirrel _ and scientists say this creature discovered living in central Laos is pretty special: It's a species believed to have been extinct for 11 million years. The long-whiskered rodent made international headlines last spring when biologists declared they'd discovered a brand new species, nicknamed the Laotian rock rat. It turns out the little guy isn't new after all, but a rare kind of survivor _ a living member of a species until now known only from fossils. Nor is it a rat. (AP Photo/Mark A. Klinger, Science)
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Divers have discovered a new crustacean in the South Pacific that resembles a lobster and is covered with what looks like silky, blond fur, French researchers said Tuesday.
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Much of Yellowstone National Park lies in the crater of a massive volcano, formed in a landscape-altering eruption 640,000 years ago. The crater, or caldera, measures some 28 miles wide by 47 miles long.
Subsequent lava flows—most recently 70,000 years ago—filled in much of the blasted-out crater, disguising the area's volcanic identity.
Now a study by scientists with the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory attributes changes in both surface terrain and geyser behavior to flows of magma, or molten rock, 9 miles below the Earth's surface.
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Across the country, cities constantly struggle with public safety and ongoing financial burdens caused by tree roots lifting cracked concrete sidewalks. Rubbersidewalks offer a convenient solution to this problem. The modular sidewalk system allows air and water to reach the soil below, and can be pulled apart for easy tree and root maintenance, decreasing the need for urban tree removal.
Rubbersidewalks are made of 100% recycled tire rubber. The waste rubber from one passenger tire creates one-square-foot of Rubbersidewalk, helping to recycle the more than 34 million passenger tires disposed in California alone. At the end of their lifecycle (at least 14 years), Rubbersidewalk pavers can be recollected and recycled back into the manufacturing process.
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A cave so huge helicopters can fly into it has just been discovered deep in the hills of a South American jungle paradise.
Actually, "Cueva del Fantasma"—Spanish for "Cave of the Ghost"—is so vast that two helicopters can comfortably fly into it and land next to a towering waterfall.
It was found in the slopes of Aprada tepui in southern Venezuela, one of the most inaccessible and unexplored regions of the world. The area, known as the Venezuelan Guayana, is one of the most biologically rich, geologically ancient and unspoiled parts of the world.
Read more: Explorers Discover Huge Cave and New Poison Frogs - Yahoo! News
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I guess if you live in Florida or Arizona you probably like February, but in Chicago it is the worst.
Check out my top 12 months of the year below and then tell us yours in the comments....
| Rank | Month |
|---|---|
| 1. | October |
| 2. | September |
| 3. | May |
| 4. | November |
| 5. | June |
| 6. | July |
| 7. | December |
| 8. | August |
| 9. | April |
| 10. | March |
| 11. | January |
| 12. | February |
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - Soon after scientists landed by helicopter in the mist-shrouded mountains of one of Indonesia's most remote provinces, they stumbled on a primitive egg-laying mammal that simply allowed itself to be picked up and brought to their field camp.
Describing a "Lost World" — apparently never visited by humans — members of the team said Tuesday they also saw large mammals that have been hunted to near-extinction elsewhere and discovered dozens of exotic new species of frogs, butterflies and palms.
"We've only scratched the surface," said Bruce Beehler, a co-leader of the monthlong trip to the Foja Mountains, an area in the eastern province of Papua with roughly 2 million acres of pristine tropical forest.
Read more: Scientists Find 'Lost World' in Indonesia - Yahoo! News
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The VARMIT getter is a device for controlling the populations of burrowing rodents such as gophers, ground squirrels, moles and even badgers, thus greatly reducing the damage they cause to crops, irrigation systems, and landscaping.
A calibrated mixture of 95 percent oxygen and 5 percent propane, the gas is dispersed into the tunnel system. It is remote detonated to ensure the operator does not get fragmented. The tunnel system and anything in tunnel system is gone for pennies.
The tunnel system is completely destroyed. Because as we all know, When the tunnel is left intact after trapping or poisoning another rodent WILL move in.
Bastard rodents!
Some of these videos are hilarious!
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Looks like he has a cut on his finger.
An undated photo released by Cornol, Switzerland and Raffles Museum Singapore, shows a male Paedocypris fish. Scientists from Europe and Singapore say they have discovered the world's tiniest fish -- a species that lives in peat wetlands in Southeast Asia and, when fully grown, is the size of a large mosquito.
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Check out this video of the microscopic world of bedbugs. Hold on past the first 30 seconds of credits that are a pain in the ass..... it's worth it.
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Scientists at the National Taiwan University have successfully bred three pigs which glow fluorescent green in the dark, marking a breakthrough in stem cell research.(AFP/Taiwan University)
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Another nail in the coffin of the God theory.
Proponents of intelligent design, which holds that a supreme being rather than evolution is responsible for life's complexities, have long criticized science for not being able to explain some natural phenomena, such as how bees fly.
Now scientists have put this perplexing mystery to rest.
Using a combination of high-speed digital photography and a robotic model of a bee wing, the researchers figured out the flight mechanisms of honeybees.
THEY'VE GOT WINGS!! That's how they fly!!!!
How much money went into this study????
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