August 20, 2008—A ten-year-old tortoise with paralyzed hind legs has been fitted with wheels at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo—and her "love life" is picking up speed.
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August 28, 2008—The fatal cancer that has ravaged Australia’s Tasmanian devils is evolving more quickly than the feisty marsupials can fight it.
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March 23, 2009—An animal behaviorist regularly romps with lions on his private animal preserve in South Africa. "If they did kill me ... if I had the opportunity to come back after dying, I would do it all the same," he says.
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October 24, 2008— Costa Rica’s Cocos Island National Park, nicknamed 'Shark Island,' has what might be the highest concentration of sharks anywhere. But even here, sharks are vulnerable.
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April 29, 2009—A South Korean research team claims to have cloned beagles with an implanted fluorescent gene. The dogs "glow in the dark." Some researchers say the technique could be applied to treatment of human diseases.
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August 19, 2008—For the second day an orphaned humpback whale calf is trying to nurse from yachts in an Australian harbor. If the whale doesn’t get milk soon, the animal could die.
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April 19, 2007—Witness the bizarre display of the marvelous spatuletail, a tiny bird that uses a pair of extra long feathers to wow potential mates.
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March 25, 2008—Pacific leatherback turtles are under serious threat of extinction, as their numbers diminish due to egg poaching and drownings in fishing nets.
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February 5, 2009—Fossils from the world’s biggest snake—a prehistoric giant that weighed more than a ton and was more than 42 feet (13 meters) long—have been found in a Colombian coal mine.
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