News tagged with eagles
Flourishing eagles feast on Maine's rare seabirds
May 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Bald eagles, bouncing back after years of decline, are swaggering forth with an appetite for great cormorant chicks that threatens to wipe out that bird population in the United States.
Decline in Alaskan sea otters affects bald eagles' diet
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Oct 03, 2008 |
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Sea otters are known as a keystone species, filling such an important niche in ocean communities that without them, entire ecosystems can collapse. Scientists are finding, however, that sea otters can have even farther-reaching ...
Field stations foster serendipitous discoveries in environmental, biological sciences
Apr 08, 2009 |
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North America's biological field stations have long been home to a rich legacy of research results, scientists say, making them important places for serendipitous discoveries in the biological and environmental ...
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Syntax in our primate cousins
Dec 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study carried out in Ivory Coast has shown that monkeys of a certain forest-dwelling species called Campbell's monkeys emit six types of alert calls. The primates combine these calls into ...
Study explores violent world of raptors
Nov 25, 2009 |
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A journey that started with a box of bird feet carried three Montana State University graduate students into the gruesome world of raptors and led to their findings being published in a prominent journal.
Where religious belief and disbelief meet in the brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have found that the process of believing or disbelieving a statement, whether religious or not, seems to be governed by the same areas in the brain.
Tech tools will keep you in the NFL game
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Last Sunday was the first Sunday of the NFL season, and if you are a football fan, technology offers lots of ways to indulge your passion, especially if you cheer for a team in another city.
Extinct New Zealand eagle may have eaten humans
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Sophisticated computer scans of fossils have helped solve a mystery over the nature of a giant, ancient raptor known as the Haast's eagle which became extinct about 500 years ago, researchers said Friday.
A virtual football? Put away the china
Sep 04, 2009 |
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The last time we chatted, I wrote that somewhere in Nintendo's lair of mass mind control, "evil" scientists were patenting a game controller based on horse riding. It would look sort of like one of those bouncy balls we ...
Tribal effort to fix broken world hinges on condor
Aug 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The tribes of the lower Klamath River have since ancient times decorated themselves with condor feathers when they performed the dances designed to heal a world gone wrong.
North Carolina football players testing pill that can give body temperature readings
Aug 12, 2009 |
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At first, it was hard for University of North Carolina football player Kendric Burney to swallow. They handed him a pill containing a battery, thermometer and radio transmitter and told him it would lodge in his intestine, ...
Some NFL teams clamp down on tweets
Aug 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The only tweets during the Miami Dolphins scrimmage Saturday will come from the officials' whistles.
Naming evolution's winners and losers
Jul 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mammals and many species of birds and fish are among evolution's "winners," while crocodiles, alligators and a reptile cousin of snakes known as the tuatara are among the losers, according ...
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