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Friday, November 20, 2009

After Mastodons and Mammoths, a Transformed Landscape

Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals -- including such iconic creatures as mammoths, ...  > full story

Predator Beetle to Battle Hemlock Pest

Hemlock woolly adelgids (HWA) -- aphidlike insects that have destroyed stands of hemlocks throughout the East Coast -- were first identified in hemlocks in the central Finger Lakes in ...  > full story

Decline in Russian Tigers Renews Calls to End All Trade in Tiger Parts

A shocking decline in the Russian Federation's wild tiger population highlights the importance of eliminating trade in and ...  > full story

Evolution of Highly Toxic Box Jellyfish Unraveled

With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long ...  > full story
 

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