Primitive Bats Took to the Wing, but They Didnât Have That Ping
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The most primitive bat ever discovered could fly but not navigate by sound, scientists have reported.
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MIAMI -- One evening last week, two roosters in a ring surrounded by cheering spectators pecked and clawed one another in a fight to the death. With each lunge, feathers flew, then floated to the ground. Finally, one bloodied bird, its eyes plucked out, lurched and faltered.
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No. 700 was a modest home run. It traveled about two rows deep into the left-field bleachers. It brought some spangly streamers out of the upper deck and none of the Giants from the dugout, except for AJ Pierzynski
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Weighing in at 150 pounds or more, the all-time biggest bird couldn't just hop into the air and fly away, researchers say.
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Researchers have witnessed a chimpanzee skewering a lemur-like creature for supper, but it's unclear whether the spectacle was a bit of luck or an indication that chimps have a more advanced ability to hunt than was thought.
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Baseball players may not be the only animals looking to gain an advantage by using steroids.
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OISTINS, Barbados -- Some people in this self-proclaimed Land of the Flying Fish now concede that it might have been unwise to make a wandering species the nation's mascot.
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A sharp rise in global temperatures about 50 million years ago may have been responsible for the evolution of bats, Science magazine reports.
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A fossil of a gliding animal shows that mammals experimented with flight around when birds first took to the skies.
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Science & environment: Dinosaurs may have been pushed towards extinction by humble insects, not meteorites
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Even the windiest days at Wrigley Field hadn&#039;t produced a power display like this.
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The sensitivity of a homing pigeon&#39;s beak could provide an answer to the complicated story of how it finds its way home. Scientists have shown for the first time that homing
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HOUSTON - The crowd was on its feet, beckoning the latest slugging surprise in the Houston Astrosâ vaunted offense to re-emerge from thedugout.
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Wildlife in Sri Lanka's biggest national park survived last month's tsunami, but it was probably keen senses and the lay of the land rather than any mysterious instinct for danger that enabled animals to scamper to safety.
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Ancient fish could bite a shark in two  Sharks were not always the top predators in the ocean.
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WARROAD, Minn. - It might have seemed like the birds were fighting back against a Duluth hunter on a recent trip to far northern Minnesota...
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If it seems quiet in your back yard these days, it&#39;s probably because so many species of birds have flown the coop, bound south on their migratory journeys.