'Missing link' croc displayed in Brazil
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The fossil remains of a land-bound reptile described as a possible "missing link" between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles were displayed to the public for the first time on Thursday.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary - A 5.5-foot-long South American snake has been stolen from the Budapest Zoo, officials said Wednesday.    Zookeepers noticed Tuesday morning that an emerald tree boa - a snake native to the Amazon rain forest - was missing from its cage...
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Wildlife officials in eastern India are to use satellites to track endangered gharial crocs.
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The once abundant shrimp of the legendary Rio Grande in Jamaica has become scarce and what can still be caught is often poisoned, a result of manâs impact on the natural world.
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In un quartiere del nord di Rio de Janeiro
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KIEV, Ukraine - An animal trainer who brought a crocodile to the beach to drum up interest in a circus got some unwelcome publicity when it broke free and made off into the Azov Sea.
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The fossil gives us a missing link, not directly between humans and an apelike ancestor, but between great apes and lesser apes such as gibbons.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Scientists have found well-preserved fossils of a new dinosaur species that lived 225 million years ago in southern Brazil but had its closest relatives in what is now Europe, Brazilian paleontologists said yesterday.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazil's drive to increase  computer software exports is beginning to show results and the  government expects the sector to sell about $400 million abroad  this year, four times what it exported in 2001.
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Swimmers and surfers on a popular Venezuelan beach got a shock when a nearly 10-foot (three-meter) fresh-water crocodile surfaced in the Caribbean sea off the coast near Caracas, officials said on Wednesday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Scientists have found  well-preserved fossils of a new dinosaur species that lived 225  million years ago in southern Brazil but had its closest  relatives in what is now Europe, Brazilian paleontologists said  on Thursday.
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Aim is to help gumshoes spot links between footprints left at crime scenes and footwear worn by suspects.
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LONDON -- Missing marmosets, abducted alligators, purloined penguins: Thieves are targeting Europe's zoos and safari parks to supply animal collectors who want to own ever more exotic species.
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US symbol removed from list of threatened species.
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Missing marmosets, abducted alligators, purloined penguins: Thieves are targeting Europe's zoos and safari parks to supply animal collectors who want to own ever more exotic species.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Rescue planes on Saturday found the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger jet that disappeared the previous day with 155 people aboard over the Amazon jungle, Brazil's airport authority said.
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Networking project in the Amazon turns up unknown amphibian, proving Negroponte right in more ways than one.