Piranha Found in Area Lake
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By BUFORD GREEN STAFF WRITER  JACKSONVIL
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ROYALTON, Ill. - A worried neighbor's call to Animal Control led to a bizarre scene at a southern Illinois home: Four officers wrestling an alligator out of a hot tub, a house filled with animal cages, and the arrest of a man wanted by the military for desertion...
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DENVER - A black Labrador named Pearl who plunged through thin ice on a Denver lake Tuesday was reunited with her owner after a firefighter in a dive suit scooted along the ice and scooped up the scrambling pooch. The rescue was caught on video by two television stations.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 17--Giant machines have been digging phosphate from the soil of Beaufort County for two generations. Now those who run the huge strip mine near the community of Aurora want to expand operations into 2,500 acres of nearby protected wetlands.
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Wildlife officials in Baker Lake Resort, Washington, recently found a black bear passed out on the lawn.
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A young walrus is exploring new surroundings at the Alaska SeaLife Center after first appearing without its mother about a month ago near the Red Dog Mine port facility south of Kivalina.
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Went down the plughole, as suspected Chilean scientists have confirmed suspicions that the missing lake which went awol in the Magallanes region of Patagonia simply drained away though a crack, Reuters reports.â¦
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FOUNTAINTOWN, Ind. - It's a sight not often seen in rural central Indiana - a 6-foot-tall kangaroo bounding around on the loose.  Hancock County Animal Control officers helped capture the Australian marsupial, an escaped pet named Skippy, early Monday not far from its home.
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Voracious carp that can literally throw themselves right into boats and pose a major ecological threat to Midwestern rivers and lakes could someday be a meal at the local zoo.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Mar. 11--SOLANO COUNTY -- This seasonal pool, no more than 8 inches deep, has harbored tadpole shrimp for hundreds of thousands of years, Matt Gause said before wading into its grassy fringes in search of the wriggling invertebrates.
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Lake Vostok, an Antarctic freshwater lake buried by 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) of ice, may host a diverse community of microbial life-forms, scientists say.
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By Mary Beth Lane, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Sep. 24--ALBANY, Ohio -- For 34 years, people have enjoyed the bass and catfish in Lake Snowden. Campers spend hours watching the deer and wild turkeys that roam the wooded hills.
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By Dan Sorenson, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 15--There's something croaking at the International Wildlife Museum.
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RYAN LAKE, N.W.T. (CP) - RCMP are bringing in an underwater camera to help search for a man who disappeared while canoeing in front of his family in choppy water on a deep lake in the Northwest Territories.
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By Lentz-Cipollini, Kendra A; Dunson, William A  ABSTRACT  Seventeen seasonal ponds in Pennsylvania containing the federally endangered northeastern bulrush, Scirpus ancistrochaetus, were sampled for water chemistry, hydrology, and plant population area.
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By M.S. Enkoji, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 16--A water trail that hugs the 72-mile shoreline of Lake Tahoe could become the next best way to showcase the magnificent depths of the mountain lake.
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By The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  May 29--MANATEE -- A musty odor and taste coming from some drinking water in Sarasota County is due to algae at the Lake Manatee Reservoir.