Fine Points: Lions and Tigers. No Bears? Oh, My!
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Have jewelry designers gone over the hedge? Precious critters are stampeding out of their jewelry cages, and they are not your garden-party-variety menagerie.
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SAN DIEGO - A tiger named Awang Relak could help keep his species from becoming extinct, zoo officials say, but first he needs to do something about his teeth.    The 240-pound Indochinese tiger was anesthetized and strapped to a medical table at the San Diego Zoo on Friday so a dentist could clean out pockets of infection and pry smaller teeth away from larger ones...
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DETROIT - If this was a yardstick game, the kind a team measures itself by, then the Detroit Lions need some more of them. There were more than 36 inches of separation between the Lions and the Philadelphia
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Sept. 23, 2004 - Cougars, wolves, lions and other predators inflict relatively few losses on livestock and farmers gain only a temporary boost if these marauders are culled, the British weekly New Scientist announced Wednesday.
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Dude, you have got to see this. Look in your in-box. Right there between the chain letter promising never-ending good fortune and the Top 10 list of reasons why cats are better than dogs. There it is: An e-mail filled with goofy images of sometimes dubious origins.
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By Terry Ganey, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Sep. 18--A fish that's becoming a growing problem in Midwest rivers might end up being fed to sea lions and penguins in zoos if a pilot project successfully develops.
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Paris - Wolves, lions, cheetahs and other predators inflict relatively few losses on livestock and farmers gain only a temporary boost if these marauders are culled, New Scientist says.
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Bush tucker plan to protect indigenous wildlife An Australian kids' book writer and illustrator has come up with a tasty plan to protect the Lucky Country's indigenous wildlife from the feral cat menace - eat the blighters.â¦
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Red Raiders&#39; Cumbie passes for 520 yards vs. Golden Bears, who felt robbed of BCS bid. â¢ Of note: Kicking off New Year&#39;s Eve is this clash of teams hoping to salvage seasons that went sour.
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Studying the zebra fish spinal cord, grooming habits of the Barbary macaque and the regional impact of dams.
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"So far, it can only crawl a little"  BERLIN - It's a girl! Maybe. Zoo officials in Nuremberg announced Wednesday that Germany's new polar bear cub is probably a female. via Detroit Free Press
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I return at last to the creationism-intelligent design debate. After all my rather coy gambits on this topic over recent months, the conclusion may come as something of an anticlimax. It really is for me too: I'm tired of wrestling with it.
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Poaching is up in central Africa, but elephant herds are growing in the south. Nations are arguing over whether to lift the ban on ivory sales.
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Stephen Colbert was right about bears.
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The end is nigh, says new report The world's tigers face "ecological extinction" due to a combination of "increased poaching, habitat destruction, and poor conservation efforts by governments", Reuters reports.â¦
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Joey Harrington ended 15-of-30 for 166 yards with an interception for Detroit (6-9), which snapped a two-game losing streak. The Lions bounced back from a heartbreaking 28-27 decision to Minnesota in Week
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DNA analysis of bison fossils suggests climate and environmental change, not human hunters, triggered herd declines and the extinction of mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and other large mammals in Siberia and North America.