Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2120 science Animals & Pets News en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:13:18 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2120 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/sc_afp/g8meetclimatewarmingwwf afp/20090703/g8meetclimatewarmingwwf AFP science Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:13:18 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/sc_afp/g8meetclimatewarmingwwf"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246651977617-1-0.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=vpX7GFVbqO8XjvdXogKqoQ--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="The environmental group WWF, urged the Group of Eight industrialised nations to show global leadership by making a commitment to keep climate change in check at their summit next week. Echoing a call by German Chancellor Angela Merkel a day earlier, the WWF said the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, must commit to keeping the rise in global average temperature "well below" two degrees Celsius.(WWF)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The environmental group WWF on Friday urged the Group of Eight industrialised nations to show global leadership by making a commitment to keep climate change in check at their summit next week.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/sc_afp/g8meetclimatewarmingwwf"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246651977617-1-0.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=vpX7GFVbqO8XjvdXogKqoQ--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="photo" title="The environmental group WWF, urged the Group of Eight industrialised nations to show global leadership by making a commitment to keep climate change in check at their summit next week. Echoing a call by German Chancellor Angela Merkel a day earlier, the WWF said the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, must commit to keeping the rise in global average temperature "well below" two degrees Celsius.(WWF)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/sc_nm/us_australia_dinosaurs nm/20090703/us_australia_dinosaurs Reuters science Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:45:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/sc_nm/us_australia_dinosaurs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246609387228-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=43&q=85&sig=suSrZA5Be68oSp9Ns96ydg--" align="left" height="43" width="130" alt="A handout image released by the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History shows 'Banjo' Australovenator wintonensis. Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.(AFP/Travis Tischler)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Fossils of three new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in Australia, including a meat-eater larger than Velociraptor from the Jurassic Park movies, suggesting Australia may have a more complex prehistoric past.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/sc_nm/us_australia_dinosaurs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246609387228-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=43&q=85&sig=suSrZA5Be68oSp9Ns96ydg--" align="left" height="43" width="130" alt="photo" title="A handout image released by the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History shows 'Banjo' Australovenator wintonensis. Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.(AFP/Travis Tischler)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/sc_afp/scienceaustraliapalaeontologydinosaur afp/20090703/scienceaustraliapalaeontologydinosaur AFP science Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:11:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/sc_afp/scienceaustraliapalaeontologydinosaur"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246609252391-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=QTd.8z8a0FAQXzz9fXxSYg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Will Murphy, 7, inspects the teeth of a Theropod dinosaur at an exhibition at the Melbourne Museum, 2008. Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.(AFP/File/William West)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/sc_afp/scienceaustraliapalaeontologydinosaur"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246609252391-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=QTd.8z8a0FAQXzz9fXxSYg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Will Murphy, 7, inspects the teeth of a Theropod dinosaur at an exhibition at the Melbourne Museum, 2008. Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.(AFP/File/William West)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/sc_afp/indonesiaenvironmentwildlifeanimal afp/20090702/indonesiaenvironmentwildlifeanimal AFP science Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:15:45 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/sc_afp/indonesiaenvironmentwildlifeanimal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246544407516-1-0.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=fqIQfPNJyg.DNhwl5EMVJw--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="A Sumatran elephant (Elephant maximus Sumatranus) with her one day old baby at Taman Safari in Bogor, seen here in 2003. An elephant calf has starved to death in Indonesia, the eighth endangered Sumatran elephant to have died in the wild since May. There are about 2,400 to 2,800 Sumatran elephants in Indonesia, of which 200 to 250 are in Riau, according to WWF.(AFP/File/Adek Berry)" border="0" /></a>AFP - An elephant calf has starved to death in Indonesia, the eighth endangered Sumatran elephant to have died in the wild since May, environmental group WWF said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/sc_afp/indonesiaenvironmentwildlifeanimal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246544407516-1-0.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=fqIQfPNJyg.DNhwl5EMVJw--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="photo" title="A Sumatran elephant (Elephant maximus Sumatranus) with her one day old baby at Taman Safari in Bogor, seen here in 2003. An elephant calf has starved to death in Indonesia, the eighth endangered Sumatran elephant to have died in the wild since May. There are about 2,400 to 2,800 Sumatran elephants in Indonesia, of which 200 to 250 are in Riau, according to WWF.(AFP/File/Adek Berry)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_pelicans_vs_trout ap/20090702/us_pelicans_vs_trout AP us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:03:43 GMT AP - Federal officials have told the Idaho fish and game officials that their plan to halve the number of pelicans nesting in southern and eastern Idaho by 2013 to boost fisheries is an "eradication program" that needs more work. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/eu_endangered_species ap/20090702/eu_endangered_species AP science Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:02:36 GMT AP - Governments are failing to stem a rapid decline in biodiversity that is now threatening extinction for almost half the world's coral reef species, a third of amphibians and a quarter of mammals, a leading environmental group warned Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_animal_testing_records ap/20090701/us_animal_testing_records AP politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:02:35 GMT AP - Animal research facilities will be required to disclosee more information online about their experiments under a court settlement signed Wednesday by the Humane Society of the United States and the Agriculture Department. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/sc_afp/namibiaanimalsenvironmentseal afp/20090701/namibiaanimalsenvironmentseal AFP science Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:06:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/sc_afp/namibiaanimalsenvironmentseal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246457740365-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=.tqdz9sETn9vjr1920.wbQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Seals are seen at Cape Cross seal reserve, some 430 kilometers west of Windhoek in 2000. In a bid to save tens of thousands of baby seals being killed for their fur, Namibia animal rights activist are rushing to raise millions of dollars to buy out a fur company that buys the pelts.(AFP/File/Jutta Dobler)" border="0" /></a>AFP - In a bid to save tens of thousands of baby seals being killed for their fur, Namibia animal rights activist are rushing to raise millions of dollars to buy out a fur company that buys the pelts.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/sc_afp/namibiaanimalsenvironmentseal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246457740365-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=.tqdz9sETn9vjr1920.wbQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="Seals are seen at Cape Cross seal reserve, some 430 kilometers west of Windhoek in 2000. In a bid to save tens of thousands of baby seals being killed for their fur, Namibia animal rights activist are rushing to raise millions of dollars to buy out a fur company that buys the pelts.(AFP/File/Jutta Dobler)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/sc_afp/g8climate afp/20090701/g8climate AFP science Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:11:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/sc_afp/g8climate"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246452928240-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=xfF.5M.GyWiIdRD1dIOf6A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Downtown Vancouver is pictured on June 10, 2009. Canada ranks last among the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations for tackling climate change while Germany is top, the green group WWF and the German insurance giant Allianz reported on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Erica Berenstein)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Canada ranks last among the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations for tackling climate change while Germany is top, the green group WWF and the German insurance giant Allianz reported on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/sc_afp/g8climate"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246452928240-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=xfF.5M.GyWiIdRD1dIOf6A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Downtown Vancouver is pictured on June 10, 2009. Canada ranks last among the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations for tackling climate change while Germany is top, the green group WWF and the German insurance giant Allianz reported on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Erica Berenstein)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/sc_afp/malaysiaenvironmentrhino afp/20090701/malaysiaenvironmentrhino AFP science Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:06:47 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/sc_afp/malaysiaenvironmentrhino"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246446394640-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=hwThn0eFpADc6sQRusZVFA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A wild Sumatran rhino photographed by using a motion-triggered camera in Borneo. Conservation group WWF said that the future of one of the world's rarest animals, the Borneo rhino, depends on action taken to protect the forest reserves where it lives.(AFP/WWF/File/Ross Jo)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The future of one of the world's rarest animals, the Borneo rhino, depends on action taken to protect the forest reserves where it lives, conservation group WWF said Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/sc_afp/malaysiaenvironmentrhino"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246446394640-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=hwThn0eFpADc6sQRusZVFA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="A wild Sumatran rhino photographed by using a motion-triggered camera in Borneo. Conservation group WWF said that the future of one of the world's rarest animals, the Borneo rhino, depends on action taken to protect the forest reserves where it lives.(AFP/WWF/File/Ross Jo)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/sc_afp/entertainmentusmusicjacksonanimalhedren afp/20090701/entertainmentusmusicjacksonanimalhedren AFP science Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:35:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/sc_afp/entertainmentusmusicjacksonanimalhedren"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246411955571-1-0.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=tLPV10Eqcb160j8WWm2wDQ--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="Actress Tippi Hedren (pictured in 2008), who adopted Michael Jackson's two tigers at her Los Angeles area preserve, is urging animal lovers to mourn the late King of Pop by helping captive big cats. Hedren took in Jackson's tigers Thriller and Sabu in 2005 as the pop icon's life unraveled and he gave up his private zoo at Neverland.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Frederick M. Brown)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Actress Tippi Hedren, who adopted Michael Jackson's two tigers at her Los Angeles area preserve, is urging animal lovers to mourn the late King of Pop by helping captive big cats.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090701/sc_afp/entertainmentusmusicjacksonanimalhedren"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090701/capt.photo_1246411955571-1-0.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=tLPV10Eqcb160j8WWm2wDQ--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="photo" title="Actress Tippi Hedren (pictured in 2008), who adopted Michael Jackson's two tigers at her Los Angeles area preserve, is urging animal lovers to mourn the late King of Pop by helping captive big cats. Hedren took in Jackson's tigers Thriller and Sabu in 2005 as the pop icon's life unraveled and he gave up his private zoo at Neverland.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Frederick M. Brown)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_re_us/us_gray_wolf_endangered ap/20090630/us_gray_wolf_endangered AP science Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:22:25 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_re_us/us_gray_wolf_endangered"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090629/capt.16a5829386c04982817dbe6c613437f3.gray_wolf_endangered_ny124.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=s.vr9Py8_SsQaSrri39Rcw--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="FILE- This July 16, 2004 file photo shows a gray wolf at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. More than 4,000 gray wolves in the upper Great Lakes region are going back on the federal endangered species list — at least temporarily. A coalition of activist groups said Monday, June 29, 2009 it reached an agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore federal protections for wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - The federal government on Monday agreed to put gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region back on the endangered species list — at least temporarily.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_re_us/us_gray_wolf_endangered"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090629/capt.16a5829386c04982817dbe6c613437f3.gray_wolf_endangered_ny124.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=s.vr9Py8_SsQaSrri39Rcw--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="photo" title="FILE- This July 16, 2004 file photo shows a gray wolf at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. More than 4,000 gray wolves in the upper Great Lakes region are going back on the federal endangered species list — at least temporarily. A coalition of activist groups said Monday, June 29, 2009 it reached an agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore federal protections for wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090629/ts_afp/entertainmentusmusicjacksonanimal afp/20090629/entertainmentusmusicjacksonanimal AFP topstories Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:30:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090629/ts_afp/entertainmentusmusicjacksonanimal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090629/capt.photo_1246245406864-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=ApoRhMVKp8sG71DUKvGFRw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt=""Michael Jackson and Bubbles", a sculpture of top-selling US artist Jeff Koons exhibited in September at the Chateau de Versailles, western Paris. Besides leaving a musical legacy, Jackson orphaned an array of exotic pets with some of them unaccounted for and even his beloved chimpanzee Bubbles depending on donations.(AFP/File/Stephane de Sakutin)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Besides leaving a musical legacy, Michael Jackson orphaned an array of exotic pets with some of them unaccounted for and even his beloved chimpanzee Bubbles depending on donations.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090629/ts_afp/entertainmentusmusicjacksonanimal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090629/capt.photo_1246245406864-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=ApoRhMVKp8sG71DUKvGFRw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title=""Michael Jackson and Bubbles", a sculpture of top-selling US artist Jeff Koons exhibited in September at the Chateau de Versailles, western Paris. Besides leaving a musical legacy, Jackson orphaned an array of exotic pets with some of them unaccounted for and even his beloved chimpanzee Bubbles depending on donations.(AFP/File/Stephane de Sakutin)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090626/ap_on_re_eu/eu_portugal_whaling ap/20090626/eu_portugal_whaling AP world Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:58:04 GMT AP - There are no guarantees that negotiators from pro- and anti-whaling nations will settle their dispute within a 12-month deadline they have set themselves, the new head of the International Whaling Commission said Friday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090625/sc_afp/whalingenvironmentiwc afp/20090625/whalingenvironmentiwc AFP science Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:15:09 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090625/sc_afp/whalingenvironmentiwc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090628/capt.photo_1245949678901-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=HRLAav3NH7I5dtrrdOsJ7A--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="A humpback whale diving near the island of Vava'u in Tonga. Denmark must wait to find out whether it can resume hunting humpback whales off Greenland, after a meeting of international delegates failed Thursday to reach agreement.(AFP/File/David Brooks)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The International Whaling Commission's annual conference ended in disarray Thursday, keeping in place a ban on commercial whaling amid deep rifts between hunters and conservationists.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090625/sc_afp/whalingenvironmentiwc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090628/capt.photo_1245949678901-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=HRLAav3NH7I5dtrrdOsJ7A--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="photo" title="A humpback whale diving near the island of Vava'u in Tonga. Denmark must wait to find out whether it can resume hunting humpback whales off Greenland, after a meeting of international delegates failed Thursday to reach agreement.(AFP/File/David Brooks)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090625/sc_afp/whalingenvironmentiwcdenmarkgreenland afp/20090625/whalingenvironmentiwcdenmarkgreenland AFP science Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:09:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090625/sc_afp/whalingenvironmentiwcdenmarkgreenland"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090628/capt.photo_1245949678901-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=HRLAav3NH7I5dtrrdOsJ7A--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="A humpback whale diving near the island of Vava'u in Tonga. Denmark must wait to find out whether it can resume hunting humpback whales off Greenland, after a meeting of international delegates failed Thursday to reach agreement.(AFP/File/David Brooks)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Denmark must wait to find out whether it can resume hunting humpback whales off Greenland, after a meeting of international delegates failed Thursday to reach agreement.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090625/sc_afp/whalingenvironmentiwcdenmarkgreenland"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090628/capt.photo_1245949678901-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=HRLAav3NH7I5dtrrdOsJ7A--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="photo" title="A humpback whale diving near the island of Vava'u in Tonga. Denmark must wait to find out whether it can resume hunting humpback whales off Greenland, after a meeting of international delegates failed Thursday to reach agreement.(AFP/File/David Brooks)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_on_re_as/as_east_timor_protecting_the_whales ap/20090625/as_east_timor_protecting_the_whales AP science Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:46:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_on_re_as/as_east_timor_protecting_the_whales"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090625/capt.c6f97607075b463b9dba71f93ec6db2b.east_timor_protecting_the_whales_jak801.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=qYKW_yxDRUk_0yI0NnCN2w--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="In this undated photo released by Australia's Northern Territory Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sports (NRETAS), a blue whale is seen in Timor waters. The government of East Timor says it plans to establish a national park to protect a motherload of dolphins and whales — some of them endangered species — recently discovered mingling and feeding off the coast of Asia's youngest country.(AP Photo/NRETAS, Kiki Dethmers, HO)" border="0" /></a>AP - The government of East Timor says it plans to establish a national park to protect a bounty of dolphins and whales — some of them endangered species — recently discovered mingling and feeding off the coast of Asia's youngest country.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_on_re_as/as_east_timor_protecting_the_whales"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090625/capt.c6f97607075b463b9dba71f93ec6db2b.east_timor_protecting_the_whales_jak801.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=qYKW_yxDRUk_0yI0NnCN2w--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this undated photo released by Australia's Northern Territory Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sports (NRETAS), a blue whale is seen in Timor waters. The government of East Timor says it plans to establish a national park to protect a motherload of dolphins and whales — some of them endangered species — recently discovered mingling and feeding off the coast of Asia's youngest country.(AP Photo/NRETAS, Kiki Dethmers, HO)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090624/sc_livescience/cancerkillswildanimalstoo livescience/20090624/cancerkillswildanimalstoo LiveScience.com health Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:35:18 GMT LiveScience.com - Cancer accounts for about 10 percent of all human deaths. If you think that sets us apart, scientists have news for you: Wild animals die of cancer at about the same rate, and it threatens some species with extinction. "Cancer is one of the leading health concerns for humans," Dr. Denise McAloose, a pathologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society, said in a statement. "But we now understand that cancer can kill wild animals at similar rates. ... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090624/wl_nm/us_whaling_extension nm/20090624/us_whaling_extension Reuters world Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:58:33 GMT Reuters - The International Whaling Commission failed to find a compromise between whaling and anti-whaling nations on Wednesday in a serious blow to its authority as a regulator. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090624/sc_afp/switzerlandcomorosmadagascarscienceanimalbat afp/20090624/switzerlandcomorosmadagascarscienceanimalbat AFP science Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:55:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090624/sc_afp/switzerlandcomorosmadagascarscienceanimalbat"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090624/capt.photo_1245866097025-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=HKo8.Ifx10AxPkQBTVT_Hw--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Scientists have identified a new species of bat weighing just five grammes in the Comoros island archipelago off eastern Africa, the Natural History Museum in Geneva said on Wednesday.(Mseum Geneve)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Scientists have identified a new species of bat weighing just five grammes in the Comoros island archipelago off eastern Africa, the Natural History Museum in Geneva said on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090624/sc_afp/switzerlandcomorosmadagascarscienceanimalbat"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090624/capt.photo_1245866097025-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=HKo8.Ifx10AxPkQBTVT_Hw--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="photo" title="Scientists have identified a new species of bat weighing just five grammes in the Comoros island archipelago off eastern Africa, the Natural History Museum in Geneva said on Wednesday.(Mseum Geneve)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)