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AP - An effort to scoop thousands of turtle eggs from their nests to save them from death in the oily Gulf of Mexico will begin in the coming weeks in a desperate attempt to keep an entire generation of threatened species from vanishing.
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AP - Archeologists have uncovered a mass grave with the complete skeletons of 51 horses buried side-by-side, probably the long-forgotten equine victims of a 17th century battle over a strategic Dutch river.
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AP - Scientists have discovered an ancient whale whose bite ripped huge chunks of flesh out of other whales about 12 million years ago — and they've named it after the author of "Moby Dick."
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LiveScience.com - Ostrich wings apparently help the giant flightless birds run,
explaining the puzzling phenomenon of why ancient dinosaurs evolved feathered limbs
before developing flight.
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Reuters - Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen retired on Wednesday from his military position but will remain incident commander overseeing the government's response to the BP Plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Reuters - BP Plc kept oil-capture and relief-well drilling operations going at its Gulf of Mexico deep-sea leak on Wednesday despite rough seas and high winds spawned by Hurricane Alex.
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SPACE.com - NASA's intrepid Opportunity rover currently rolling across
the surface of Mars has just caught its best-yet glimpse of its next stop the
huge Endeavour Crater.
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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have implicated
eight genes in the development of alopecia areata, a disorder that causes
hair to thin and fall out.
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AP - Egyptian archaeologists who have completed excavations on an unfinished ancient tunnel believe it was meant to connect a 3,300-year-old pharaoh's tomb with a secret burial site, the antiquities department said Wednesday.
