Mystery of Wales turtle 'solved'
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Scientists think they may at last know why the world's largest leatherback turtle was washed up on a Welsh beach.
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A fossil found in Wyoming resolves a puzzle over when bats gained their sonar-like ability to navigate and locate food.
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Scientists meet in Malaysia to discuss how to save the critically endangered leatherback turtle.
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By Joel Hood, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  May 27--LOXAHATCHEE GROVES -- The town of "turtle waters" is losing its turtles.
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Two Hungarians puzzled by how certain creatures with shells, like turtles and beetles, are able to self-right have developed a shape with one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium to explain the phenomenon.
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A British-led study has determined North American marine turtles are at risk if global warming occurs at predicted levels.  University of Exeter scientists say an increase in temperature of 1 degree Celsius could eliminate the birth of male turtles from some beaches.
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Small and inexpensive steps could go a long way towards rescuing the Western Pacific&#39;s dwindling population of giant sea turtles, an expert has said.
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By Brian Nearing, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  May 30--HULETTS LANDING -- To a northern map turtle basking in the sun on the Lake George shoreline, that shape moving slowly in the water could just be an old log. Only at the last minute does it become clear -- it's Karen Robbins.
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Scientists, wringing their hands over the identity of the famed "hobbit" fossil, have found a new clue in the wrist.
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German academics believe they have solved the centuries-old mystery behind the identity of the "Mona Lisa" in Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait.
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Behind an abandoned house at the golf course&#39;s edge, a turtle sunned itself on a floating palm frond in the swimming pool&#39;s green, rancid water, a few feet from a bobbing Styrofoam cup.
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After decades of dives, a scientist offers a theory to explain the spectacular deceptions of cephalopods.
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Ancient bison DNA may help explain a longstanding mystery of North American wildlife: why mammoths, North American lions, short-faced bears and many other large mammals disappeared about 10,000 years ago.
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A rare plant which was believed to be extinct in the UK is rediscovered in a Herefordshire orchard.
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Researchers in Vietnam announced Friday they have caught one of the world's most endangered turtles in the wild, a development which could bolster efforts to protect the species from hunters and collectors.
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Scientists are trying to figure out why the number of loggerhead sea turtle nests has declined significantly over the past seven years.
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Dolphins living off the coast of Wales whistle, bark and groan in a different dialect from dolphins off the western coast of Ireland, scientists have discovered.