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The half-ton fish are known as China's "pandas under the water," but they'll soon vanish from the wild unless a new breeding program can save it. Third in a series on megafishes

August 15, 2007
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Flossie is expected to bring strong winds and heavy rain to the northwestern islands, but it's nothing the marine reserve there can't handle, a NOAA expert says.

August 14, 2007
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As conservationists warn that bluefin tuna are near extinction due to overfishing, scientists are using the latest technology to tease out the fishes' migration mysteries and hopefully craft better protections.

August 13, 2007
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When faced with a northern Pacific rattlesnake, California ground squirrels turn up the heat in their tails to subdue the heat-sensitive reptile.

August 13, 2007
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High-tech satellite tags are offering researchers a clearer picture of the feeding and breeding behaviors of the huge but elusive fish, two new papers report.

Photos: Tuna Demand Pressures Wild Stocks

August 13, 2007
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Found only on the Asian island, the animals number only about 15,000 and are threatened by logging, plantations, and human settlements, a new satellite study shows.

August 10, 2007
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See a roundup of the week's news: coal mine collapse in Utah, record-breaking battery-operated car, giant sea bloom, and more.

August 10, 2007
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There's light at the end of the tunnel for Florida's gopher tortoises, thousands of which were killed under a law that allowed builders to pave over their burrows.

August 10, 2007
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No one knows how they got there, but three mummified ibises and five falcons have been recovered from a textile factory by Egyptian antiquities authorities.

August 9, 2007
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The black-footed ferret, North America's most endangered mammal, has made a remarkable recovery in Wyoming, where only five of the animals existed in 1997.

August 9, 2007
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A two-month expedition has uncovered a handful of new animal species in a remote forest that has been out of scientific reach for nearly 50 years.

August 8, 2007
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One's pretty, the other not so much. But a new species of shrew and a rare orchid were both discovered by scientists recently in the southwestern Philippines.

August 7, 2007
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A massive new survey effort found fewer than 1,500 wild tigers—a sharp decline from previous estimates released just five years back.

August 7, 2007
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See a roundup of the week's news and events: Bridge over Mississippi River collapses, new Veil Nebula images released, and more.

August 3, 2007
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In captivity the apes tailor their gestures to help humans understand their desires, a new study suggests.

August 2, 2007

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