Yellow-lipped sea kraits, Laticauda colubrina, are proving two heads are better than one! According to a recent study, the poisonous sea snakes trick predators into believing their tail is a second head!
The Two-Faced Sea Snake: Proving Two Heads are Better Than One!
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Yosemite’s Large Trees See A Decline Of 24%
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The number of large-diameter trees in Yosemite National Park have declined 24-percent between the 1930s and 1990s. The findings are based on a study done by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington. Scientists compared tree densities from 1932-1936 to those from 1988-1999 where large-diameter trees are those with a diameter greater than [...]
Swine Flu Kills Over Half A Dozen in India
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Deep Down into the Antarctic Ice
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It’s early Sunday morning at Halley Research Station, Antarctica. The sun is rising quickly on the horizon, the wind is low and the temperature outside is a modest -18 degrees C. Conditions look perfect. As I look across the dining room at my friends and colleagues Niv and Colin I see two smiling faces nodding [...]
Toronto’s Residential Fruit-Picking Program
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