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Giant web creates bug buzz in Texas

Bill Hanna
star-telegram.com
Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:40 UTC
If you hate creepy-crawlies, you might want to avoid Lake Tawakoni State Park where a 200-yard stretch along a nature trail has been blanketed by a sprawling spider web that has engulfed seven large trees, dozens of bushes and even the weedy ground.

But if you hate mosquitoes, you might just love this bizarre web.

©STAR-TELEGRAM / Tom Pennington
Lake Tawakoni State Park rangers Mike McCord, left, and Freddie Gowin monitor the growth of a giant communal spider web at the park Tuesday. The web, rare for Texas, has formed over the past several weeks.
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Paracas National Reserve Sea Lions Disappear After Earthquake


LivinginPeru.com
Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:04 UTC
Peru's Natural Resources Institute (INRENA) has reported that since the earthquake which struck Peru's southern coast and devastated most of the Ica Region, 60 percent of the sea lion population, which lived on Paracas Bay, has disappeared.

Representative for INRENA Protected Areas, Luis Alfaro, told Peru's Andina News Agency, "We can only see 50 sea lions where there used to be 150."

©LivinginPeru.com
Paracas National Reserve sea lions.
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UK: Cuckoos and hedgehogs on the at-risk list of our best-loved wildlife

David Derbyshire
The Daily Mail
Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:23 UTC
They were once among the most common sights and sounds of the countryside.

But decades of intensive farming, chemical pollution and habitat loss have taken their toll on some of our bestloved wildlife.

From today, the cuckoo, hedgehog and house sparrow join the official 'priority' list of the UK's most threatened animals.

©Unknown
Cuckoos are among birds threatened

According to the Government, more than 1,000 plants and animals are under threat from extinction or serious decline - twice the number on the last major conservation list published a decade ago.
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Two-Headed Cow Born In California

Dani Carlson & Brian Morrow
26KMPH
Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:15 UTC
It's not something you see everyday; a two-headed calf is born in Tulare County.

©26KMPH
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Scientists ask: Where have all the dolphins gone?


AFP
Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:51 UTC
Sightings by marine scientists of dolphins in the north Atlantic's Bay of Biscay have dropped off by 80 percent compared to the same period in 2006, a wildlife conservation group said Wednesday.

The alarming drop in numbers of the Bay's three most common species of dolphin -- the striped, bottlenose and common -- can be attributed to one or both of two causes, Clive Martin, senior wildlife officer for the Biscay Dolphin Research Programme, told AFP.
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Pacu caught in local Lake


clickondetroit
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00 UTC
Macomb County, Mich.l -- A Macomb County man caught an 18-inch pacu, a relative of the piranha fish in Lake St. Clair.

Toby Davison. 43, of St. Clair Shores, is a longtime fisherman.

"On the line, I knew it wasn't normal," Davison told the Macomb County Daily. "It was really fighting against the metal."

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Boy Hooks Piranha-Like Fish From Ohio River


WLWT.com
Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:39 UTC
Kyle Owens has a fish tale straight from the waters of the Ohio River.

The 10-year-old Chilo boy went fishing for catfish this past weekend but caught something he was not expecting.

©WLWT.com.

"I thought it was like a 10-pound catfish, reeling it in," said Owens. "I thought, 'It's a big blue gill,' and I was about to stick my thumb into its mouth and then I saw its teeth."
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Study: Marine Bird Populations Declining


Associated Press
Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:11 UTC
BELLINGHAM, Wash. - Marine bird populations in northern Puget Sound have seen significant declines since the late 1970s, according to a Western Washington University study.
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Hundreds of Saudi camels die from mystery ailment


Reuters
Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:28 UTC
Hundreds of camels have died in Saudi Arabia this week from a mystery ailment.

The Agriculture Ministry has said 232 camels died in the space of four days in the Dawasir Valley, 400 km (250 miles) south of Riyadh. King Abdullah has promised compensation for owners, who say the real number of deaths is far higher.
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Invasive Australian Jellyfish Sighted Outside Gulf Of Mexico


Science Daily
Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:45 UTC
The invasive Australian jellyfish, Phyllorhiza punctata, first reported in great quantities in the Gulf of Mexico in 2000, has made a vigorous reappearance this summer in waters from southwestern Louisiana to Morehead City, North Carolina. Beachgoers and boaters are encouraged to report their sightings of these exotic jellies to the Dauphin Island Sea Lab's jellyfish website, Dockwatch.

©Dan Martin/Dauphin Island Sea Lab
The Australian spotted jellyfish can weigh up to 25 pounds.
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