Madagascar: A Spectacular Last Hurrah
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A species of self-destructing palm trees that flower once every 100 years and then die has been discovered in Madagascar.
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By Betsy Taylor  ST. LOUIS - Hunched over her desk at the Missouri Botanical Garden, Cynthia Hong-Wa scrutinizes tropical plants found only in her homeland almost 9,600 miles away in Madagascar.
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The impact on physical anthropology of the diminutive hominid Homo floresiensis cannot be understated. The discovery in a rock shelter on the Indonesian island of Flores , announced in the
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A nearly 13 million-year-old ape discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes, a research team says in Friday's issue of Science magazine.
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BANGKOK, Oct 14 (IPS) -  The great white shark, Irrawaddy dolphin, minke  whale and the ramin tree were among the big winners at the  endangered species sweepstakes of the Convention on International  Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) as its 13th Conference of the  Parties drew to a close in the Thai capital on Thursday.
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An extinct ape that lived 13 million years ago has been identified as the leading contender for the title of last common ancestor of humans and all great apes alive today.
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Botanists discover a species of giant self-destructing palm in Madagascar, quite unlike an ordinary palm tree.
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By Charoen Kittikanya, Bangkok Post, Thailand  Mar.
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A list of 15,000 species threatened with extinction - many of them by human activity - is published.
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There may be something almost nostalgic in our celebration of a âheroic explorer.â
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BANGKOK - The future looked brighter for leaf-tailed geckos and great white sharks after a UN meeting on trade in wild plants and animals.
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The Indian Ocean island of Madagascar voted on Sunday in an election expected to return dairy tycoon Marc Ravalomanana to a second term as president of one of the world's poorest countries.
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Princely Treasures is the grand finale to mark the end of Magyar Magic, a yearlong series of events celebrating Hungary joining the European Union last year.
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ANDRINGITRA NATIONAL PARK, Madagascar -- Martin Randriantsoa, a nature guide, stopped at a sacred waterfall and stuck his hand into a cold, clear pool. Underneath a rock, he fished out a Malagasy crayfish, plentiful in these streams, but a species found only on this island nation. He watched the crayfish walk across his palm before releasing it.
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Planet Earth captures a pride of lions stalking an elephant in Botswana. Learn what went into creating this killer scene. By Sonia Zjawinski from Wired magazine.
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People in Madagascar are braced for a tropical cyclone which is expected to make landfall in the north-east.
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Madagascar holds its first presidential poll since a 2001 election that brought the island to the brink of civil war.