'Last wave' for wild golden frog
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A BBC film crew captures footage of a rare frog waving, wrestling and courting for the first time.
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BRANDON, Fla. - A palm-sized pet turtle and the golden retriever that gobbled it up survived the misadventure thanks to the quick actions of a 12-year-old girl, a veterinarian said.  The saga of Pepper the red-eared slider turtle and Bella the golden retriever started last week.
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PUERTO AYORA, Ecuador  - While scientists search for a mate for "Lonesome George" -- the last known survivor of a species of Galapagos tortoise -- some say the effort to fend off extinction may be in vain.
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By Prasanna Raman  * ON the editorial floor where I sit, often a frog's croaking is heard. The first time I heard it, my colleagues and I thought a frog was moonlighting as a journalist here. But, it was just the journalist's cell phone's ringtone.
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A third of the world&#39;s amphibian species are in danger of extinction, according to the first-ever global survey of the animals.
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IT is one of only two complete specimens ever known to be found - and it is causing a stir. The 7m-long Longman&#39;s beaked whale, which washed up on a beach at Byron Bay, was last seen in Australia in 1882.
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By Julia Chan  KOTA KINABALU: It seemed like a happy ending. The crowds cheered as the Bryde's whale swam away from Pulau Gaya on Friday. And everyone assumed it had survived its ordeal because marine patrol officers didn't spot it again.  But it was not to be.
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 18--The Grand Forks County Wildlife Federation lost a good friend last week with the passing of Ken Bohlman.   Just as importantly, club members say, so did wood ducks.   Bohlman, of Thompson, N.D., died Feb.
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ATHENS, Greece  Brendan Hansen is the swimmer who caught a wave and then lost it. He owns two world records and zero gold medals.
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MUNCIE, Ind. - Salamanders usually live four or five years in the wild, but a 28-year-old tiger salamander named Survivor outlived his owner. Teacher Gene Frazier bought "Sur" as a tadpole in 1976 at an Indianapolis bait shop and raised him on tiny chunks of lunch meat.
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By Steve Vantreese, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Jun. 16-- -- Doug Travis' 60 years of service as a conservation educator ended the way he always said they would.   He died.
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The Southern chorus frog has been found in southeastern Virginia, far outside its previously known range. The animal had never before been reported north of Beaufort County, N.C., about 125 miles to the south.
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By Warren Cornwall, The Seattle Times  Sep. 20--For the third time in five years, a major fish die-off has  struck Puget Sound's beleaguered Hood Canal, adding to evidence that the fjord  remains sick.
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Travel: Audio slideshow: Gwladys Fouche and Truls Brekke follow the endangered species from rescue to rehabilitation in the rainforest of northern Sumatra
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By Rocky Barker, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Feb. 25--Singer-songwriter and Idaho resident Carole King has pulled out of a project that would have helped bull trout she had worked to protect.
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A THIRD of the world&#39;s frogs, toads and newts are on the brink of extinction thanks to pollution and loss of their habitat, a study published today warns.
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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.