Beaver seen in NYC; first in centuries
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Beavers grace New York City's official seal. But the industrious rodents haven't been spotted here for as many as 200 years &#151; until this week.
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Now a new study, published tomorrow in the science journal Nature, suggests that another striking mammal, the Irish elk, likewise lived way beyond the last ice age.
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By Janet Caggiano, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 19--In first grade, Edwin S. Snead III saw George Washington as a larger-than-life superhero riding a white steed.   His view hasn't changed much in the last 70 years.
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CLEVELAND - This squirrelly newcomer caused quite a stir at Jacobs Field. A brown squirrel ran onto the field in the bottom of the third inning Wednesday night and ran circles around the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians...
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GREENSBURG, La. - These eager beavers had a whole new slant on money laundering. A bag of bills stolen from a casino was snapped up by beavers who wove thousands of dollars in soggy currency into the sticks and brush of their dam on a creek in eastern Louisiana.
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A new fossil discovery from China shows that a tiny squirrel-like creature glided through the air during the age of dinosaurs, more than 75 million years earlier than scientists had documented that ability in a mammal.
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily November 18, 2004 - NEW YORK - New Yorkers were literally running in the streets to get a glimpse of Howard Stern on stage in Union Square Thursday morning, drawing the college age carousers of the park and businessmen from the surrounding buildings.
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By Jana Eisenberg  Adam and Jennifer Goetz had been living in Manhattan -- she working as an art director, and he as a sous-chef at the Waldorf- Astoria -- but always knew that they wanted to raise children in their hometown, Buffalo.
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A front page article in the Nov. 24 Patriot Ledger states that researchers have found the "rare" sculpin fish for the first time east of the Connecticut River, in the Eel River in Plymouth.
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Should New York take a cue from the original ground zero?
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The Brave One transposes 1970s fears to today's New York City
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U.S. scientists say a species of ox discovered in Cambodia in 1937 and hailed as one of the 20th century's most famous finds might never have existed.
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By Rhona Ganguly; Emma Pinch  Britain's most endangered mammal has been discovered thriving in many of Birmingham's urban watercourses.
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A new exhibit in New York City showcases the champ in some never-before-seen shots, taken  by Magnum Photos
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By Pam Kowalik, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Feb.
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PITTSBURGH - Paleontologists are hailing the discovery by a first-year geology student of a new species of amphibian, a salamander-like creature that lived 300 million years ago.
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Men have been responding with enthusiasm to this winterâs influx of fur.