Ancient hunters off the hook
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Prehistoric hunters may be off the hook in the latest twist of a prehistoric whodunit that tries to explain why bison populations sharply crashed thousands of years ago.
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A TRADITIONAL Oriental ritual helped to dispel
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WASHINGTON -- A newly discovered fossil might be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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This top-of-the-line equipment blurs the line between hunting and military operations.
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By ALLEN THOMAS  Intermittently for the past week, I've been mulling in my mind the shooting of a sea lion by a spring chinook fisherman in the Willamette River. The use of the word "vigilante'' in connection with this incident stings .
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By Cathy Locke, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--It's not often that a pipeline project spawns an archaeological dig.
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New data casts doubt on the popular theory that big North American mammals were wiped out by human hunting.
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A whale caught off the Alaskan coast had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it had survived a similar hunt â more than a century ago.
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Authorities working to protect eiephants from poachers get a big boost from the DNA analysis of ivory, enabling them to zero in on where specific animals were killed. By the Associated Press.
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By MORIARTY, Angela  Things sure have changed since 83-year-old Gordon Max was a young lad like his great-grandson Leroy. His was a day where ploughing was done by hand and weight training meant throwing a bale of barley on your shoulders to harden them up. Deer hunting season was coming.
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For years, geologists and devoted amateurs have lobbied for a regional trail dedicated to ice-age floods. At last, their efforts may pay off.
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As the men bumped away from camp in the four-wheel-drive pickup, over rutted dirt roads and through tiny streams, the sun revealed open plains around them, dotted with scrawny oak trees. Paul Tyjewski, Paul Royce and their guide, Kal Katzer, began glimpsing exotic wildlife gathering under the trees, using the cover of daybreak to feed before predators arose. Only, in this instance, the animals' instincts had failed them, since the predators were wide-eyed, eager and getting ever closer with their 7mm Remingtons. In one area, skittish kudu, African antelopes with twisting horns rising two feet out of their skulls, hopped from tree to tree. Nearby, aoudads -- massive versions of sheep from the Barbary rocks of North Africa, with horns curving out and back from their skulls -- playfully butted heads. Katzer pointed out ibex, exotic goats with thick, scaly horns.
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Deep sea treasure hunters face charges of operating as modern-day pirates. They, however, prefer to see themselves as "commercial archaeologists".
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When I compare the current attack of the Olympics with the original Games in ancient Greece, a theme emerges. Back then, athletes were occasionally disemboweled and those who stepped over the line were flogged.
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The hunting specialist fires a wild earnings miss.
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A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt &#151; more than a century ago. Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3 1/2-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale's age, estimated between 115 and 130 years old.
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This week's rundown of fishing reports from around the region: Area A : Drifting and jigging seems to be the way to go for cod out of Newburyport. It has been hit or miss, but the cod schools are small, so with luck you can catch several at a time. Mackerel and stripers have also been around; keeping a few ...