AP - New Mexico is reaping a revenue windfall because of high prices for oil and natural gas, and a debate is brewing about whether the extra cash should be spent on highways, schools, health care or tax rebates. -- read full article
AP - Forecasters say Hurricane Bertha is moving slowly, but could regain major hurricane status as it heads toward Bermuda. The storm is currently a Category 2.
LiveScience.com - In the new film "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," the main character
Hellboy saves the world from trolls, demons, and other strange
netherworld creatures. The cigar-chompin', red-skinned devil-man
doesn't do it just for fun; it's his job. -- read full article
AP - Federal rangeland managers said continuing to allow cattle to graze on the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is harming the rare plants, fish and wildlife the monument was created eight years ago to protect. -- read full article
AP - Crime scene DNA is typically recovered from blood or semen stains, but the DNA that exonerated members of JonBenet Ramsey's family came from invisible skin cells.
Reuters - A top U.S. Democratic senator said in
a newspaper interview published Wednesday that he would
consider supporting opening up new areas for offshore oil and
gas drilling.
Reuters - Some odd-looking fish fossils
discovered in the bowels of several European museums may help
solve a lingering question about evolutionary theory, U.S.
researchers said on Wednesday.
AP - A zookeeper's house cat has adopted a baby red panda abandoned by its mother and is nursing the cub along with her own kittens, the Artis zoo said Wednesday.
LiveScience.com - A funky fish with one eye atop its head and another on its side lurked in Europe's reef shallows about 50 million years ago, newfound transitional fossils suggest. -- read full article
LiveScience.com - Artists may now be able to paint dinosaurs and ancient birds and mammals in their true colors, thanks to the discovery of pigment residues in fossilized feathers.
In recent years, paleontologists have found fossil feathers in about 50 rock formations pegged to dates ranging from the Jurassic period (from about 200 million to 150 million years ago) to the late Tertiary (from 65 million to about 2 million years ago).
These feathers are preserved as residues of carbon that were previously thought to be traces of feather-degrading bacteria. ... -- read full article
AP - Nine environmental groups said Tuesday they plan to sue the federal government if wolverines aren't granted protection under the Endangered Species Act within 60 days.
AP - The United States and leaders of the Czech Republic agreed Tuesday to place a radar system in this former Soviet satellite that would warn of long-range missiles coming to Europe from the Middle East.
