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Coyote Found Frozen In Its Tracks
Offbeat  (tags: discovery, near road, wildlife, frozen coyote, odd, unusual )

Simone
- 15 hours ago - thedenverchannel.com
A Silt, Colo., man made an amazing discovery this week: a coyote frozen solid in its tracks, standing upright next to a road near his home. Seth Wettlin told TheDenverChannel.com that he ran out of gas on the way home Wednesday night and saw the
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Once Thought Extinct Hoverfly Discovered in Forest of Dean
Offbeat  (tags: hoverfly, extinction, environment, protection, discovery )

Cher
- 11 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A hoverfly, which was once listed as extinct and is classified as an endangered species, has been discovered at the Forestry Commission's Welshbury Wood in the Forest of Dean.
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Snake Spits Out New Species of Chameleon at Scientist's Feet
Offbeat  (tags: animals, new species, discovery, environment, wildlife )

Cher
- 25 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Latest find in natural world was result of reptile coughing up lizard as conservationist studied monkeys in the jungle
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It's a Grolar, the Climate-Change Polar Bear
Offbeat  (tags: grolar, cross between polar bears, grizzly bears, discovery, hybrid )

Simone
- 27 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
Polar bears face a new threat besides melting ice -- male grizzly bears are moving into their territories, competing for food and are even mating with their females. Scientists have already discovered one case of a hybrid "grolar" bear and are
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New 'Moustached' Amphibians Discovered in India
Offbeat  (tags: animals, discovery, amphibians, environment, protection )

Cher
- 55 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Three new species of legless amphibians have been discovered in the forests of India's north-eastern states, Manipur and Nagaland.
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World's First Vegetarian Spider Discovered in Central America
Offbeat  (tags: spiders, vegetarian, Central America, discovery )

Cher
- 67 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
There are approximately 40,000 species of spiders in the world, all of which are thought to be predators that feed on insects or other animals. Now, scientists have found that a small Central American jumping spider has a uniquely different diet: the
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Why An Ape Dropping Raw Meat Into a Fire May Have Made the Greatest Discovery in History
Offbeat  (tags: animals, apes, meat dropped into fire, discovery, environment )

Cher
- 98 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
According to a compelling new book, the single most important scientific discovery took place two million years ago in the plains of modern day Africa, when an ape dropped a piece of meat into a fire.
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Vicious Tongue-Eating, Blood-Sucking Parasite Found
Offbeat  (tags: parasite, environment, fish, blood sucking, discovery )

Cher
- 100 days ago - ecoworldly.com
The parasite, a type of a louse, is about 1 inch in length and survives on animal's blood by drinking the blood from a tongue artery. Paul Chambers, a marine researcher from the Societe Jersiaise, identified the parasite. Chambers described the isopod
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New Species of Fungus Found on the New Forest
Offbeat  (tags: environment, new species, discovery, fungus )

Cher
- 110 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The New Forest has confounded conservationists once again by yielding up a species hitherto unknown to science. But even as the new type of 'tooth fungus' was being discovered on the Forestry Commission estate, near Lyndhurst, its future was already
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'Moon Rock' in Dutch Museum Is Just Petrified Wood
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, off-beat, society, technology, bizarre, space, scientists, research, discovery )

Suzybell
- 112 days ago - verizon.net
AMSTERDAM - It's not green cheese, but it might as well be.The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood.Rijksmuseum spokeswo
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Scientists Discover Bioluminescent Deep Sea Worms That Fire Light Missiles
Offbeat  (tags: deep sea worms, discovery, environment, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 117 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
In the latest proof that the oceans continue to offer remarkable findings and much of their vastness remains to be explored, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have discovered a unique group of worms that live in the depths
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Fascinating Leaf Creation Found
Offbeat  (tags: environment, leaf, discovery, unusual )

Cher
- 123 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A fascinating leaf formation has been discovered in a Tredworth garden.
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Dead Tiger in Sunderbans Had Swallowed King Cobra
Offbeat  (tags: dead tiger, discovery, swallowed king cobra snake, unusual, bizarre )

Simone
- 152 days ago - ptinews.com
he 14-year-old tiger that was found dead two days ago in Sunderbans of West Bengal had swallowed two snakes, including a venomous king cobra, before it succumbed to liver infection, a senior state forest official has said. "It was a startling
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New 'Dracula' Fish Discovered
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, interesting, dracula, fish, scientists, discovery, zoologists )

Tom
- 283 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Named after Count Dracula, it is the only one of its kind to have bones which project through the skin, looking like real teeth. Scientists have described its features as "extraordinary" and believe it is one of the most interesting vertebrates to be iden
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DNA Links Bones Near Plane Crash Site to Fossett
Offbeat  (tags: archaeology, discovery, investigation, news, scientists, study, americans, usa, 2008, americans, interesting, news, off-beat, odd )


- 410 days ago - news.yahoo.com
MADERA, Calif. - Authorities say they've positively identified some of Steve Fossett's remains: two large bones found a half-mile from where the adventurer's plane crashed in California's Sierra Nevada.
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