Pittsburgh Zoo unveils polar bear home
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Two polar bears at the Pittsburgh Zoo &amp; PPG Aquarium should be resting easier these days. The zoo has unveiled a $14 million exhibit for the animals that includes a waterfall, a freshwater stream and a 150,000-gallon pool chilled to between 50 and 55 degrees. It also features a yard where they can play or nap.
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By Allyson Bond, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Feb. 5--ASHEBORO -- The changing global environment and its impact on Americans is not that far off, according to North Carolina Zoo Director David Jones.
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PITTSBURGH - The Steelers couldn't have designed a more Pittsburgh-perfect day for an important December home game. They received everything a warm-weather opponent wouldn't want: snow, swirling winds, chilly temperatures, and a marshy field.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins will remain in the city after reaching a deal with local and state officials for a new arena, Gov. Edward Rendell announced on Tuesday.
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A zebrula -- a cross between a horse and a zebra -- has drawn curious onlookers to a zoo in Germany because of its unusual coat.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska zoo is to build what it believes to be the world's first elephant treadmill as part of plans to enrich its only elephant's life with better accommodation and activities.    At 9,120 pounds, Maggie could stand to lose some weight...
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The Monterey Bay Aquarium has an unusual visitor that experts are hoping will be a permanent houseguest: a great white shark.
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"By now I can distinguish her different noises and know what the little one wants"  Germany's latest famous polar bear cub opened her eyes for the first time on Tuesday - and it appears she may be cross-eyed. Though her eyes have just opened as tiny slits, zoo keeper Stefanie Krueger said it ... via MyATLtv.com
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Should zookeepers intervene when a mom wants to eat her offspring? That's the question being debated by Germany's polar bear lovers
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What could be the oldest known remains of a polar bear are uncovered on the Svalbard archipelago.
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The Bowdoin women's basketball team is riding high, as usual. The Polar Bears are 21-1, ranked first in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Division 3 national poll and second in the D3hoops.com poll.
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Some artists suffer for their work. Maggie, an 11-year-old sea lion at the Pittsburgh Zoo &amp; PPG Aquarium, gets to eat dead fish for hers. Kesha Phares, a zoo trainer, has been teaching the animal to paint since last year.
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Vertebrate Paleontologist Amy C. Henrici of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh holds a stone fossil of a new genus and species of terrestrial adopted amphibian that lived in the Pennsylvanian Period, about 300 million years ago, Monday
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Officials at Atlanta's zoo were ecstatic after witnessing the rare birth of a giant panda in captivity.
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To honor the Red Sox four-game World Series sweep of the Colorado Rockies, staff at the Franklin Park Zoo on Monday named a baby giraffe "Sox."
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A Chinese zoo is running a  Big Brother style competition with a difference -- the  contestants have to live in a monkey enclosure.
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Washington's National Zoo, beset by  a series of unusual animal deaths and charges of mismanagement,  introduced its first litter of endangered cheetah cubs on  Friday with fanfare befitting some rare good news.