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• Half of mammals are in decline, study finds
BARCELONA, Spain - One in two mammal species on Earth are in decline and at least one in four are at risk of disappearing forever, according to a scientific survey released Monday and whose sponsors described the trend as an "extinction crisis" in ...
• Super-sized dinos had super-sized stomachs
With body lengths of more than 131 feet (40 m) and heights of 56 feet (17 m), sauropods dwarfed meat-eating dinosaurs and even the largest land mammals ever. Sauropods appeared on the scene about 210 million years ago in the Late Triassic and ...
• Court wrangles over Navy sonar, whales
Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled in February that the Navy must limit sonar use when ships get close to marine mammals. Richard Kendall, representing the Natural Resources Defense Council, told the justices that the Navy is managing ...
• Mysterious DNA survives eons of evolution
The fact that these segments haven't been weeded out by natural selection implies that they serve an important function in mammals. Yet mice in the lab bred to lack four of these DNA strands appear healthy and don't seem to be missing any vital genes ...
• Officials Explore Options To Save Wayward Dolphins
Teri Rowles, lead veterinarian with NOAA's Fisheries Service. As a last resort, officials said they would try to capture the dolphins for release into the ocean. Past efforts in New England to lure or herd stray ocean mammals have met with mixed success