Biologists Hunt for Snakehead in Chicago
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Biologists plan to use large nets and traps this week in Chicago's Burnham Harbor to search for the northern snakehead &#151; a type of fish known for its voracious appetite and ability to wreak havoc on freshwater ecosystems.
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An anxious search Tuesday of a Chicago harbor turned up no more northern snakeheads, a voracious alien fish that can devastate freshwater ecosystems by gobbling up food and native fish.
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To help shoppers avoid mislabeled toxic pufferfish, and pilots steer clear of birds, federal agencies are starting to tap into an ambitious project that is gathering DNA "barcodes" for the Earth's 1.8 million known species.
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Police divers searched the Des Plaines River on Wednesday for a missing woman who had planned to place a damaged statue of a Hindu deity in the water when she disappeared two days earlier.
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State agriculture officials are asking Oregonians to keep an eye out for suspicious insects, after an exotic pest from Asia was spotted in a Portland neighborhood.
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One of the rarest snakes in the U.S., the Louisiana pine snake is relatively abundant on a tract of commercial forest in the state. Scientists hope to learn why.
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HOUSTON - In a case of life imitating art, a Houston movie theater has shut down while workers hunt for an 8-foot snake spotted by a maintenance worker.    Among the movies playing at the 16-screen Tinseltown theater is the horror-thriller "Anacondas."   Terrell Falk, a spokeswoman for Cinemark USA Inc., said the worker saw a snake about a week ago that he described as thick as a man's arm slithering along a wall...
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Biologists are checking the diversity of fish in the Lower Salt River and reservoir lakes.
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By Bob Lamb | Tribune Outdoors Editor, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Dec. 10--It seems like everything is on track for a special deer hunt on Goose Island County Park this weekend. Biologists and managers with the state DNR, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S.
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Police in Boulder, Colorado, say they know the identity of an individual who sent threatening letters to University of Colorado professors who teach evolutionary biology. But the suspect appears to be on the run.
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November 30 - PORTLAND - The federal government on Tuesday unveiled its new plan to protect Columbia and Snake River salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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The dreaded Northern Snakehead, a  voracious predator dubbed the "Frankenfish" that can breathe  out of water and wriggle across land, has invaded the Great  Lakes, authorities said on Friday.
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ST. LOUIS - There's a definite down side to swiping a two-headed albino rat snake: There's no good way to disguise the stolen goods...
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ITHACA, N.Y. - A new test will help scientists quickly detect a fast-spreading aquatic virus that threatens the Great Lakes fishing industry, according to its developers at Cornell University.
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Government scientists are chasing a possible new case of mad cow disease in the United States, with final results on a suspicious slaughtered animal expected
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By Steve Lynn  By Steve Lynn  SPECIAL TO THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL  Vince Meier points at a white crane fishing in the middle of the shallow Kansas River north of Interstate 70 and MacVicar where he and his men used to work.
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Angler lands 2ft snakehead amid invasion fears A UK angler has provoked a piscine killer invasion alert by landing a 2ft snakehead in a Lincolnshire river - the first recorded example in British waterways of the highly-invasive southeast Asian species which will reportedly eat anything which crosses its path.â¦