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Oh crumbs! Hadron Collider breaks down

Of course the conspiracy theorist will now be saying stupid things...Some physicists have said that time-travelling particles from the future could be damaging the machine in an attempt to thwart any experiments....

Little Bird Defeats Hawk

"This is the moment a tiny but very angry kingbird hitched a piggyback ride on a red tail hawk. The feisty little flyer began attacking the bird of prey after it ventured too near its nest. "The kingbird is a...

Parasites May Have Killed T-Rex

A new study finds Tyrannosaurus Rex may have become extinct due to the work of a small one-celled parasitic organism, which caused lacerations in the dinosaur's jaw bone. The disease trichomoniasis gallinae causes lesions in the beaks of modern birds of prey, and Australian...

Te Hokioi: Maori Man-Eating Bird Legend Is True

A legendary bird that ate humans is more than a Maori legend. Te Hokioi, a bird with talons as big as tigers' paws, existed in the form of Haast's eagle, which became extinct around 500 years ago when humans killed its main prey, the moa. Sir Julius von Haast discovered the...

City birds sleep late

City birds can afford to sleep in their nests a little longer than their country cousins according to a new report from the British Trust for Ornithology. The micro-climate created by urban human activity sees the...

Girl Penguin Breaks up Chick Raising Male Penguin Couple

Two male penguins named Harry and Pepper have been together for six years, acting in all ways as a nesting couple. When a penguin male/female couple would not care for their egg Pepper and Harry were allowed to...

Finland: Cold weather kills over 40% of young birds

Last days cold weather and rains have done massive destruction with young birds in Finland. Last nights lowest temperature was -4,4C at Alajärvi. Even the birdhouses have lost 40% of the young birds and situation...

Smuggler hid 13 songbirds in his pants, surprisingly got caught

A man tried to smuggle 13 songbirds from Vietnam into the United States by hiding them in a custom-made pair of leggings, and thinking no one would notice. Sony Dong was arrested when he touched down in Los Angeles...

Newest White House Residents

Ahh ... sweet spring, the time for new beginnings, renewal and hope. Meet the newest family of the White House - a red-breasted mama robin and her chicks.  She's made her home in the bushes right outside the...

Egyptian woman dies of H5N1 bird flu

A woman in Egypt has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus, just one day after a six-year-old boy died of the disease. The twenty-five year old woman was the 25th person to die of the disease in Egypt. She died in a Cairo hospital of respiratory failure. Another four-year-old boy...

Baxter: Product contained live bird flu virus

When I saw this story on a website some days ago, but was unable to find any one else writing about it, I thought it might just be another of the whirlwind of unproven stories that find a home on the...

Avian Flu Virus Sent to 18 Countries in Vaccines by "Mistake"

Reported recently on nowpublic now getting a little more coverage:"If someone exposed to a mixture of the two had been simultaneously infected with both strains, he or she could have served as an incubator for a...

Further Bird Flu Fears

The problem doesn't seem to be going away fast. More infections and cull's every week. Some companies are resorting to moving their employees out of affected areas! Don't be supprized when Asian flights are all...

One more Abbotsford-area Farm Added to Bird Flu Quarantine

B.C. poulty and bio-security officials report that for the next three weeks extensive testing and containment measures to curb any spread of the avian flu H5N1 virus will be in effect in the Abbotsford area of...

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