Crab population rebounds in the Chesapeake Bay
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – A new survey has found the Chesapeake Bay’s adult population of blue crabs has increased substantially over last year after new management measures were put in place.
The Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced the results of the winter dredge [...]

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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) – Virginia has reduced the harvest of female blue crabs by 37 percent as part of an effort to restore the Chesapeake Bay’s crab population.
Preliminary data released this week shows 9.4 million pounds of female crabs were harvested from the bay by Virginia watermen in 2008, compared to an average haul [...]

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Now, Dasher! Now, Prancer! …On, Millie and Spruce?
By JAMES K. SANBORN, Capital News Service/Maryland Newsline
WHITEFORD – “Hi, reindeer. Hi, Rudolph,” one child excitedly yelled as he was driven past two penned reindeer on a recent visit to Applewood Farm.
Millie and Spruce, the farm’s reindeer, are often mistaken for their more famous “cousins.”
The two are [...]

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Anyone remember the old Mad Magazine feature “The Moment Before Disaster?”
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Tigers at Thai Temple Drugged Up or Loved Up?
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KANCHANABURI, Thailand, Dec 17, 2008—
Deep in the heart of Western Thailand, where the River Kwai weaves through the rich green jungle, the monks of the Wat Pa Luang Ta Bua Temple are beginning their day.
They [...]

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Gay penguins expelled from zoo colony for stealing eggs are given their own to look after following animal rights protest
By Caroline Graham
Last updated at 4:13 PM on 15th December 2008
A pair of gay penguins thrown out of their zoo colony for repeatedly stealing eggs have been given some of their own to look after [...]

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Speaking of “Do unto others…”
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Dog Saves Other Injured Dog Lying On A Highway (VIDEO)
Huffington Post | LiveLeak

Check out an amazing video of a dog saving another dog that had been hit by a car on the highway. The heroic canine runs into traffic and drags the severely injured dog out of harm’s way. Rather unbelievable.

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Aren’t zookeepers supposed to be able to tell little girl polar bears from the little boy polar bears?  Don’t they…um…check?  Wouldn’t they have noticed that both bears tinkled sitting down?

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) — Puzzled zookeepers in northern Japan have discovered the reason why their attempts to mate two polar bears kept failing: Both are female.
The [...]

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By ALEX DOMINGUEZ, Associated Press WriterBALTIMORE – Maryland and Virginia watermen are eligible for up to $20 million in crab disaster relief, federal officials announced Tuesday.
Each state will be eligible for as much as $10 million in relief to help watermen hurt by the failure of the Chesapeake Bay’s soft shell and peeler blue crab [...]

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Organs from pigs could be widely available for transplanting into patients in a decade, Lord Winston said yesterday.  The first organs suitable for transplanting, most likely kidneys, are expected to be ready within three years and, if tests are successful, their use could be widespread by 2018.  A herd of as few as 50 pigs [...]

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By Gopal Sharma
REUTERS, updated 9:54 a.m. ET, Tues., Oct. 21, 2008

KATHMANDU – Japanese climbers returning from a mountain in western Nepal said on Tuesday they had found footprints they think belonged to the abominable snowman or Yeti. “We saw three footprints which looked like that of human beings,” Kuniaki Yagihara, a member of the Yeti [...]

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Scientists: Virginia shark’s pup a ‘virgin birth’
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By STEVE SZKOTAK, Associated Press Writer
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Scientists have confirmed the second case of a “virgin birth” in a shark.
In a study reported Friday in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists said DNA testing proved that a pup carried by a female Atlantic blacktip [...]

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Palin is in full support of this.

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Fuzzy, not warm, caterpillar packs a wallop
By ERICA MITRANO, Staff writer  

Please do not pet the caterpillars.
Normally, stroking caterpillars might not be the most tempting thing, but the puss caterpillar, also called the southern flannel caterpillar, has shaggy brown hair that might tempt a person to pet it. But the hairs sting, causing severe pain and [...]

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Meet a deer little handful called Rupert who was delivered by Caesarean section after his mother was killed by a car
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1065209/Meet-deer-little-handf ul-called-Rupert-delivered-Caesarean-section-mother-killed-car.html

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