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Saturday, March 9, 2013

Animal News

No species has ever returned from extinction, but some animals have made amazing U-turns just before disappearing.
Caffeine-laced nectar provides bees with a memory boost and helps them find flowers. 
A study of 30,000 bees from 438 species over 140 years in the northeast US shows that bumbles are in trouble, southern bees are moving in and exotic species are on the rise. 
Tens of thousands of sharks have been spotted migrating along the Florida coast, causing beach closures.
A pointer named 'Major' was identified this week as being the first known modern breed of dog. See photos of other early dog breeds.

Prairie dogs pull up stakes and look for a new place to live when all their close kin have disappeared from their home territory–a striking pattern of dispersal that has not been observed for any ...

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