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A list of enigmas: bamboo bats, frogs-head flyers, Rohu’s bat and the false serotines (vesper bats part XVI) [Tetrapod …
By now (if, that is, you’ve been following this thrilling, roller-coaster ride of a series) we’ve gotten through the better part of vesper bat phylogeny: we’ve climbed ‘up’ the vesper bat cladogram and are now within the youngest major section of the group. Recent phylogenetic studies have recognised a serotine clade (Eptesicini or Nycticeiini), a hypsugine clade (including Savi’s bat and a load …
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Easter eggs for all
Friday, April 15, 2011 Today Oldsmar Easter Egg Hunt: Children up to age 12 are invited to make a dash for more than 5,000 eggs filled with small toys, candy and a few special mystery prizes. All hunts will be broken down by ages. 9 a.m. Free. R.E. Olds Park, 107 Shore Drive W, Oldsmar. (813) 749-1260; www.ci.oldsmar.fl.us/Leisure_Svcs/parks_re_olds.htm. Today Relay …
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Great Allentown Cleanup Events
GREAT ALLENTOWN CLEANUP Today
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Friends of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo launches fund drive to help improve Syracuse facility
“Conserving What We Love” campaign seeks 7,000 to help complete new elephant and primate facilities and bring home three of the zoo’s pachyderms.
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Shale gas stirs ecology fears in Karoo
The Karoo could solve South Africa’s energy problems — but only through an extraction process called fracking that has greens seeing red.
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Sierra Club Ally Hilton Kelley Wins Prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize
Washington, D.C. – Sierra Club ally Hilton Kelley has been awarded this year’s prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, considered the “Nobel prize for environmental activism,” for his landmark environmental justice work to improve air quality in one of the most polluted areas in the nation.
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FITCHBURG HISTORY, PART IV: THE ARTS
Fourth monthly installment in a yearlong series on the history of Fitchburg By Anne O’Connor Correspondent FITCHBURG — It is so easy to see a favorite work of art, a play or a movie, or listen to some music.
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Slavery in Charleston: A chronicle of human bondage in the Holy City
Charles Carleton Coffin would be haunted by the sight for the rest of his life. Behind the iron gate of the “MART,” Coffin found a long hall lined with benches down one wall, a platform on the other and, beyond it, a four-story brick building with grated windows and iron doors.
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Libyan rebels reject African Union proposal as fighting rages
The Libyan opposition has rejected a “road map” proposal by the African Union to bring an end to fighting between them and the government of Moammar Gadhafi, opposition leaders said Monday.
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Eclectic Rant: Kagame’s Rwanda: Myth and Reality
On April 7, 2010, President Barack Obama marked the 17th anniversary of the “unimaginable slaughter” of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, saying it reminded the world of its duties to civilians in places like Libya.
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Attacks and interference heighten humanitarian risks
Mounting attacks in war zones from Afghanistan to Sudan have made aid work one of the most dangerous jobs around, according to specialists who are calling for governments and guerrillas to stay out of the humanitarian zone.
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Addressing stillbirths
Over 2.6 million babies are stillborn globally every year, but a million of these could have been prevented if mothers had received proper care during pregnancy and birth.
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Gold mines, a city’s pride, leave toxic legacy
Denis Farrell In this photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011, a child walks barefooted at the Tudor Shaft squatter settlement near Randfontein, South Africa, west of Johannesburg. When it rains the streets pool with orange water that smells of vinegar.
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Against the tide: Currents keep dolphins apart
Conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and other conservation and research groups have discovered that groups of dolphins in the western Indian Ocean do not mix freely with one another. In fact, dolphin populations are kept separate by currents and other unseen factors.
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Gold mines, a city’s pride, leave toxic legacy
A look at how Japanese radiation concerns are effecting one California grocery. More>>
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History(R) Announces New Series Featuring Larger-Than-Life Alaskan Craftsmen With a Passion for Preserving Natural …
The new half-hour series will launch Thursday, April 7 at 10:00/9:00c.
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The man with the Midas touch goes green fingered at Mill End Nursery
FORMER high flier Andrew Asbury has swapped his Savile Row suit, silk Hermes tie and handmade Church shoes for Levis, a Landrover sweatshirt and tough Caterpillar boots.
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Who Wanted To Spoil Prof Fiadjoe’s Party?
Accra, March 6, GNA – Chairman Emeritus Professor Albert K. Fiadjoe and Commissioners of the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) had taken pains to do a thorough job and as it appeared that everything was cruising to a successful end, then all of sudden a particular group decided to throw spokes into the wheel of a highly intellectual endeavour.
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New Animal Species Discovered in Ethiopia
Highland Jackals Found to Instead Constitute Previously Unknown Species of African Wolf
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Egyptian Jackal Actually Wolf Family Member
Scientists have discovered that the Egyptian jackal, which was previously thought to be a subspecies of the golden jackal, is actually a relative of the grey wolf. Genetic information shows that the species is more closely related to Indian and Himalayan wolves than golden jackals. The researchers said that the renamed “African wolf” was the only grey wolf species found in Africa. They also …
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Morocco to host 2015 African Nations Cup
LUBUMBASHI (Reuters) – Morocco will stage the 2015 African Nations Cup and the 2017 edition will be hosted by South Africa, the Confederation of African Football said on Saturday.
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Putting peace into practice
Julia Smith is a member of a small, amazing group of people who have the potential to change our planet for the better. Her story is one that gives hope in a world of strife and hardship.
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Rebecca Canning’s relatives receive donations
The family of a former Telford girl who died in a car crash on the north Shropshire border have thanked people for their messages of support and fundraising efforts in the wake of the tragedy.
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African pygmy goat at Wingham wildlife park


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African pygmy goat at Wingham wildlife park

Angelina Jolie Forces Kids To Spend Christmas In Namibia
Angelina Jolie – Hollywood star, Angelina Jolie, her hubby Brad Pitt and their six children spent Christmas in Namibia this year.
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Jolie, Pitt enjoy Namibian Christmas
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, as well as their family, have spent Christmas in Namibia.
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