8K Mile Journey of the Limosa & More for Thursday, August 6, 2009

Limosa lapponica image licensed under Creative Commons by Dave Hamster

Scientists In Northern Alaska Spot A Shorebird Tagged 8,000 Miles Away

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090804215021.htm

Limosa lapponica

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limosa_lapponica

Limosa lapponica (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/1049548


DNA computer 'answers questions'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8184033.stm

DNA Computer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computer

'Slaughter' fears

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8186773.stm

Loxodonta

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_elephant

Loxodonta africana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loxodonta_africana

Loxodonta cyclotis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loxodonta_cyclotis

Loxodonta Africana (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/289808

Loxodonta cyclotis (EOL Link) [IUCN Red List Not Evaluated]

http://www.eol.org/pages/289547

Loxodonta Africana (IUCN Red List – Near Threatened)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/12392/0

Koala that inspired Australia after bush fires dies during operation

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8186991.stm

Sam the Koala

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_the_Koala

Gunshot riddle as beaver vanishes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8187394.stm

Castor fiber

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_fiber

Castor fiber (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/1036116

Grey squirrel threat to Highlands

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/8185953.stm

Sciurus carolinensis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_squirrel

Sciurus carolinensis (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/347685

Crows Can Use Three Tools In Sequence

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090805144114.htm

Corvus brachyrhynchos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus_brachyrhynchos

Corvus brachyrhynchos (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/1177464

Venomous Sea Snakes Play Heads Or Tails

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090805201539.htm

Laticauda colubrina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laticauda_colubrina

Laticauda colubrine (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/963373

Bringing Fish From Ocean Floor: Carefully Released Rockfish Can Survive Barotrauma

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727203302.htm

Sebastes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastes

Barotrauma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barotrauma

Marine Pest Species Costing Billions In Damage To Fisheries, Coastal Communities And Infrastructure Are Spreading

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090726092331.htm

Invasive Species

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species

Ancient pterosaurs were skilled fliers

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5745gj-us-china-pterosaur/

How the humble raindrop has driven flower evolution

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8186000/8186098.stm

Do Chicago’s Suburbs Hold The Key To Understanding West Nile Virus?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090730155551.htm

West Nile Virus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Nile_Virus


Popular Insect Repellent Deet Is Neurotoxic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090804193230.htm

DEET

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEET


Structure of HIV genome 'decoded'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8186263.stm

HIV-1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV-1

Sustainable Agriculture: Perennial Plants Produce More; Landscape Diversity Creates Habitat For Pest Enemies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090804071358.htm

Sustainable agriculture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_agriculture

Lead-based Consumer Paint Remains A Global Public Health Threat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090804094641.htm

Lead paint

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_paint

Martian methane mystery deepens

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8186314.stm

'UFO' seen on BBC News webcam

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8186289.stm

For Monday, October 20, 2008

Yeti footprints image licensed under Creative Commons by Ben Tubby

Thirsty world: Desperate quest for water

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/23/what.matters.thirst/index.html

Flu: The Get-Well-Quick Plan

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFluNews/story?id=6057562&page=1

Foods And Meds You Shouldn't Mix

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/20/earlyshow/health/main4531572.shtml

"Extraordinary Hope" From New Cancer Drugs

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/20/earlyshow/health/main4532119.shtml


Hong Kong finds bird flu virus in crow

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre49j0s4-us-hongkong-birdflu/

Corvus splendens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Crow

Bird Flu Vaccine Protects People And Pets

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081019184800.htm

Genetic Diseases: Ancient Evolutionary Legacy?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081016124043.htm

Gut Bacterial Waste Helps Host Control Weight

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081018093223.htm

Mutation Protects Against Obesity, Diabetes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081019184802.htm

Parents 'wrong' on child weight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7676015.stm

Prescription opiates and kids: One pill can kill

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27168078/

Canada to ban baby bottles with BPA

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27266627/

High summits 'could harm brain'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7676028.stm

Fatty acids clue to Alzheimer's

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7676606.stm

Doctors get death diagnosis tips

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7679373.stm

Decay Of Brain's Myelin Causes Physical Decline

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081017150738.htm

Myelin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myelin

Worms' Nervous System Shown To Alert Immune System

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081014114846.htm

New Fossil Reveals Primates Lingered In Texas

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081014111401.htm

Dinosaur Dance Floor: Numerous Tracks at Jurassic Oasis on Arizona-Utah Border

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081020093414.htm

Survival Secret Of Antarctic 'Antifreeze Fish'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081016124049.htm

Dissostichus mawsoni

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=7039&genusname=Dissostichus&speciesname=mawsoni

Dubai hotel urged to free shark

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7678780.stm

Ship Strike Reduction Rule Aims To Protect North Atlantic Right Whales

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081012093255.htm

Protected 'Swimways' Urged For Endangered Leatherback Sea Turtle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081018093221.htm

Tainted feed kills 1500 dogs bred for fur

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081020/ap_on_re_as/as_china_tainted_milk;_ylt=ArOerUTB0wxztifVuZiVK16s0NUE

Billions of fish, fish eggs die in power plants

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081018/ap_on_sc/dead_fish;_ylt=AsdbzMCNPMKyNoYLl.V.Z8Ss0NUE

Alternative Energy: New Sugarcanes To Deliver One-Two Energy Punch

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081013194043.htm

City Trash Plus Farm Leftovers May Yield Clean Energy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081013195119.htm

Engineers Build First-ever Multi-input 'Plug-and-play' Synthetic RNA Device

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081017131010.htm

Spinning Natural Proteins Into Fabrics For New Wound-repair Products

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081020094447.htm

Chicken Soup May Help Fight High Blood Pressure

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081013110117.htm

Files: U.S. pilots ordered to shoot down UFO during Cold War

http://www.yahoo.com/s/973482

'Look out!' Alitalia near miss with UFO remains unexplained

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7679145.stm

Britain releases UFO files, dispels some mysteries

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27280196/

Japanese team finds 'yeti footprints' in Nepal

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081020/wl_sthasia_afp/nepaljapanwildlifeyetioffbeat;_ylt=AlhoKshDtxFUZZG8SJpaRYis0NUE

For Monday, October 13, 2008

Anarhichas lupus image licensed under Creative Commons by asbjorn.hansen

World 'to fail' on nature target

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7666079.stm

2008 Istanbul UFO Video

http://vimeo.com/1929672

Dairy blames toxic milk on subcontractors

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27161757/

China dairy sued over infant’s toxic milk death

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27161751/

Mystery disease causes rampant bleeding

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27149176/

Eagle taught to fly

javascript:vPlayer('27163150','698d9d01-66bd-407e-af5f-7b390732ba0e')

Baldness Gene Discovered: 1 In 7 Men At Risk

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081012164437.htm

Atlantic Wolffish: Fearsome Fish That Deserve Protection?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081002091915.htm

Anarhichas lupus

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=2501&genusname=Anarhichas&speciesname=lupus

Huge Gap Between World Demand For Fish and What Can Be Sustainably Harvested

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081013111947.htm

Why Starving Cells Prolong Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081013111940.htm

Engineering Aluminum-tolerant Crop Plants: Biochemists Devise Method For Bypassing Toxicity Effects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081002171906.htm

Aluminum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum

Byproduct Of Steel Shows Potential In Carbon Dioxide Sequestration

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081013110345.htm

Steel slag

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slag

Plant-eating Japanese predator could control UK superweed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7531221.stm

Superweed's astonishing growth

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7644242.stm

Fallopia japonica

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_knotweed

For Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Pigeon photo licensed under Creative Commons by Ritalin

http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news?slug=reu-wimbledonpigeons&prov=reuters&type=lgns

Wimbledon under fire for pigeon cull - Tennis - Yahoo! Sports

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon

Columbidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080625/sc_afp/sciencepaleontologyfishevolution;_ylt=Aqi0iQDM4KgLs8B2E_jb_uGs0NUE

Fish out of water: The evolutionary crawl from sea to land - Yahoo! News

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventastega

Ventastega - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7473470.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Fossil fills out water-land leap

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080625-tetrapods.html

Fishy Ancestors of Humans Surprisingly Diverse

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_sc/sci_marine_aliases;_ylt=AlaW2vufCSU3Vi9RtWCG4Rys0NUE

Scientists seek to sort sundry names for sealife - Yahoo! News

http://www.coml.org/

Census of Marine Life Portal


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080625/sc_nm/oceans_dc;_ylt=AmifvW2fdfHzTllpJXfsgHkPLBIF

Wrong names for fish seen complicating conservation - Yahoo! News



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7464437.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Sun-loving frogs aid fungus fight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7472310.stm

BBC NEWS UK England Close encounters over Mersey

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080623125003.htm

When Threatened, A Few African Frogs Can Morph Toes Into Claws

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080623113715.htm

Life On The Edge: To Disperse, Or Become Extinct?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080623105012.htm

Laser Fluorescence Could Find Life On Mars

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080619142102.htm

Scientists Fix Bugs In Our Understanding Of Evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0304-sea_urchins_reveal_medical_mysteries.htm

Sea Urchins Reveal Medical Mysteries -- Sea Urchins' Genetics Add To Knowledge Of Cancer, Alzheimer's And Infertility

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_urchin

Echinoidea

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080616115700.htm

Mini Subs To Probe Odd Coral-like Growths In British Columbia, Canada, Lake

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080625153342.htm

No Scent, No Sex For The Japanese Beetle

For Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Lesser prairie hen photo licensced under Creative Commons by epburn

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080610095001.htm

'Cursus' Is Older Than Stonehenge: Archeologists Step Closer To Solving Ancient Monument Riddle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursus

Cursus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080606105454.htm

School Of Robofish Communicate With Each Other In Underwater Robot Teams

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080609141215.htm

New Catfish Species Named For Museum Mail Supervisor

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=63775&genusname=Rhinodoras&speciesname=gallagheri

Rhinodoras gallagheri, : (NOTE: WRONG SPECIES IMAGE DEPICTED IN LINK!!!)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25061258

Cat-sized reptiles roamed ancient Antarctica - LiveScience- msnbc.com

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080607232647.htm

Fossilized Burrows 245 Million Years Old Suggest Lizard-like Creatures In Antarctica

Conn. police find pipe bomb stuffed inside chicken - Yahoo! News

Fighter jet hits UFO Metro.co.uk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7447582.stm

BBC NEWS Business Corn prices surge to record high

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7447994.stm

BBC NEWS Americas Whale birth captured on video

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/7448006.stm

BBC NEWS UK England North Yorkshire Mud phobia pig gets its own boots

Limusphobia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7448215.stm

BBC NEWS Technology Honour for biomaterials pioneer

http://web.mit.edu/cheme/people/faculty/langer.html

:: MIT ChE :: People in the Department - Faculty - Robert S. Langer

http://www.millenniumprize.fi/

Millennium Prize - Frontpage

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7446112.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Fast fall of Mediterranean sharks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7444266.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Chinese parks 'sell tiger wine'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7447381.stm

BBC NEWS UK Biologists call for balloon ban

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7446647.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Bird family trees predict decline

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7443534.stm

BBC NEWS Health Brain size 'not key to intellect'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7446348.stm

BBC NEWS UK Magazine Why do dolphins beach en masse?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080609115216.htm

Climate Change Hastens Extinction In Madagascar's Reptiles And Amphibians

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080610212404.htm

The Symbolic Monkey? Animals Can Comprehend And Use Symbols, Study Of Tufted Capuchins Suggests

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchin_monkey

Cebus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080605095616.htm

Otters Reveal Their Identity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutra_lutra

Lutra lutra

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080610185204.htm

Technology Enrolled In Hunt For Life On Mars

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080605095623.htm

New Type Of Glass Can Dissolve And Release Calcium Into The Body

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioactive_glass

Bioactive glass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080610165057.htm

Early Humans Experimented To Get Bow And Arrow Just Right, Findings Suggest

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080609172919.htm

New Research Refutes Myth Of Pure Scandinavian Race

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080606145620.htm

Mystery Of Infamous 'New England Dark Day' Solved By Tree Rings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England%27s_Dark_Day

New England's Dark Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/11/1130193.aspx

Google co-founder aims for space - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com

http://www.spaceadventures.com/index.cfm

Space Adventures

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25049471/

U.S. tobacco farming is bigger than ever - CNBC TV- msnbc.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco

Tobacco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25083233/

Death risk chart shows smokers should beware - Health care- msnbc.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25085264/

Did food sellers overreact to tomato scare? - Food Inc.- msnbc.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25075424/

FDA closing in on source of tomato outbreak - Infectious diseases- msnbc.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/06/09/tiger.conservation/index.html

Stars come out to support tiger initiative - CNN.com

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_re_as/hong_kong_bird_flu;_ylt=Ahs1L5kRzAxISVax0BuZg4Os0NUE

Hong Kong slaughters all market poultry - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_sc/indonesia_fishing_macaques;_ylt=AnU0xEy_XXQezwifPA5ZzQis0NUE

Scientists find monkeys who know how to fish - Yahoo! News

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-tailed_macaque

Macaca fascicularis

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080610/ap_on_re_us/prairie_chicken;_ylt=AgOKFdTCcI3xZKkg2fWi6Eys0NUE

Report: Rare chicken's numbers on the decline - Yahoo! News

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Prairie_Chicken

Tympanuchus pallidicinctus

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080611/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_india_tigers;_ylt=Am_GvvVBQOdAY_H7ukYNvCbtiBIF

Tigers spill out of Indian sanctuary - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080611/sc_afp/whalingusjapan;_ylt=Agnb36dxfUqfw1C2MJxkBrwPLBIF

US moves to plug loophole for slaughter of whales - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080610/ap_on_re_as/china_quake_pandas;_ylt=AjuaMEUkn5XYx8uKA25alfAPLBIF

Honors for Mao Mao the panda killed in China quake - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080610/sc_afp/wwfchinaenvironment;_ylt=AnJSPFgBh0A3WsEVUCfE6UoPLBIF

China consuming twice what its ecosystems can supply: WWF - Yahoo! News

For Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Photo licensed under Creative Commons by glenfinlas

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7422299.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature No road skill makes hog road kill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog

Erinaceinae

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7421259.stm

BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Cat puts Japan rail firm on track

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7421807.stm

BBC NEWS UK Scotland Edinburgh, East and Fife Zoo sends aid to pandas in China

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7422932.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Swans fight against bird flu

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/7423035.stm

BBC NEWS UK England Cumbria Squirrel hunters set 1,000 traps

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7419183.stm

BBC NEWS UK Scotland Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West Beavers to return after 400 years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Beaver

Castor fiber

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080527201814.htm

Giant Flying Reptiles Preferred To Walk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azhdarchidae

Azhdarchidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080527091910.htm

Nanotechnology Risks: How Buckyballs Hurt Cells

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene#Buckminsterfullerene

Fullerene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080523201046.htm


Melting Glaciers May Release DDT And Contaminate Antarctic Environment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT

Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080527101003.htm

Organic Free Grazing Cows Are Cream Of The Crop

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080521114919.htm

Saltwater Sleuths: Seeking Clues To Help Determine Ages Of Fish And Shellfish Populations

http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/

Northeast Fisheries Science Center

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080527105742.htm

Fundamental Building Block In Flowering Plants Evolved Independently, Yet Almost Identically In Ancient Plants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080523064620.htm

Miracle Leaves That May Help Protect Against Liver Damage

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=HIRH80

PLANTS Profile for Hippophae rhamnoides (seaberry) USDA PLANTS

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080526153329.htm

Rice In Your Gas Tank: Boosting Biofuel Production From Rice Straw


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24846610/

Female albatrosses shack up - LiveScience- msnbc.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laysan_Albatross

Phoebastria immutabilis



http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080528/od_nm/vietnam_ufo_dc;_ylt=AtDr6RWUXyofzRfUN6U7zmas0NUE

Vietnam reports "UFO" explosion - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080526/ap_on_fe_st/australia_giant_squid;_ylt=Al2K9kyHsiTv7MIVtB01QK8PLBIF

Australian fishermen net 500-pound squid - Yahoo! News