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Captain Beefheart

Dinosaur Blues

Teal sea glass

Sea Glass: The Search on the Shore

Part of the sea glass hunting elite, Nancy and Richard LaMotte are finding the treasures they covet harder to come by

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Dinosaur Tracking: Snowbirds From Another Era

Strangely enough, some dinosaurs might have migrated much like birds do now

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Welcome to our latest blog—Dinosaur Tracking

In our “Dinosaur Tracking” blog, we’ll delve into everyone’s favorite extinctanimal group and the lost worlds they so nobly inhabited

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The Miracle of the Reef

Coral spawn only once a year, and at night; how they manage to synchronize remains a mystery

Great white shark with its mouth open.

Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Great white sharks, endangered frogs and more

The Cassowary bird at Lahore Zoo.

Invasion of the Cassowaries

Passions run high in an Australian town: Should the endangered birds be feared—or fed?

For some people in the region (Chapel of All Saints, San Luis, Colorado), the DNA results have been a revelation.

Cracking the Code of the Human Genome

The ‘Secret Jews’ of San Luis Valley

In Colorado, the gene linked to a virulent form of breast cancer found mainly in Jewish women is discovered in Hispanic Catholics

Scrapped fishing boats in Fort Bragg (salvagers Bruce Abernathy and his son David) testify to the sharp decline of chinook salmon.

On California’s Coast, Farewell to the King Salmon

For the first time there’s no fishing for chinook salmon on the California coast. The search is on for why the prize catch is so scarce.

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