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Giant Quake Fish Startles Japan

Posted: 03/09/10 3:48PM
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Rare, deep-sea oarfish have been washing ashore, and they've got ecologists and superstitious fishermen worried.

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Oar fish live in the depths of the ocean, surfacing infrequently when they are sick or damaged. In Japan it is believed the appearance of oar fish means an earthquake is imminent. Since November, over 19 of the rare fish have washed up on the shores of Japan. The animal is thought to be the origin of ancient mariner myths of sea serpents.

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In this photograph taken in Englewood, Colo., on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010, unsold 2010 Prius sedans sit at a Toyota dealership. A California Highway Patrol officer helped bring a runaway Toyota Prius travelling 151 kilometres an hour to a safe stop on Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck on a San Diego County freeway.

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Governor General Michaelle Jean eats the heart of a seal during a community feast in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut on Monday May 25, 2009. Seal meat hors-d'oeuvre and main courses will be on the lunch menu at the parliamentary restaurant on Wednesday.

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Winnipeg police and firefighters confer at the scene of Saturday night's shooting in the West End area.

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A computer-addicted couple in South Korea has been arrested after they left their three-month-old baby to starve to death as they raised a virtual child online.

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This online classified ad offered the free removal and relocation of aboriginal youth from parts of Winnipeg. CBC News has blurred the faces in the picture. The ad has since been pulled down.

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Jeremy Peters-Fransen says St. Boniface Hospital should be showing more concern about the patients' records he receives by mistake.

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Deputy Commissioner Raf Souccar flew on RCMP planes to the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto, to a G8 regimental dinner in Barrie, and to the Ontario Provincial Police annual mess dinner in Borden.

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Comedy writer Ariane Sherine, 28, poses for pictures beside a London bus displaying an advertising campaign with the words: 'There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life," in London. New research from the London School of Economics suggests that liberal, atheist adults who believe in monogamy have higher IQs than their conservative, religious, philandering contemporaries.

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Saskatchewan RCMP Const. Kevin Gregson was suspended from the force at the time of the killing he is charged with committing. A written decision by the RCMP adjudication board details Gregson's behaviour during the three years he was suspended from the force.

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It's Raining Fish in Australia

Posted: 03/02/10 4:49PM
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Residents of a small Australian town were stunned last Thursday after fish began raining from the sky.

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Workers Describe Frenzy of Whale Attack

Posted: 03/02/10 12:49PM
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MIAMI - A killer whale that dragged a trainer to her death eluded SeaWorld workers' frenzied efforts to corral it with plastic nets while it swam pool-to-pool, according to witness statements released Monday.

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Snake Dined on Baby Dinos, Fossils Show

Posted: 03/02/10 11:00AM
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A decades-long study of fossils found in India in 1987 has revealed how ancient snakes ate newly hatched dinosaurs while still in their nests.

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King Tut Secrets Unlocked

This sculpture by Tyler Keillor of the University of Chicago is a reconstruction of the scene preserved in the 67-million-year-old fossils, with the ancient snake Sanajeh indicus poised to strike at the newly hatched titanosaur.

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Love letters from John F. Kennedy to his Swedish mistress are set to hit the auction block.

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In this Nov. 4, 2007 file photo, an archaeological worker looks across at the face of the linen-wrapped mummy of King Tut as he is removed from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

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This file photo provided by the Supreme Council of Antiquities shows a CT scan done on Jan.5, 2005 of the skull of King Tutankhamun's mummy, in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

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In this photo taken on Nov. 4, 2007, the feet of King Tutankhamun are seen at the moving of the linen-wrapped mummy of King Tut from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

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This undated file photo shows Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered King Tutankhamun's tomb, examining King Tut's sarcophagus. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

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In this Nov. 4, 2007 file photo, Egypt's antiquities chief Dr. Zahi Hawass, center, supervises the removal of the mummy of King Tutankhamun from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

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In this Feb. 15, 2010 photo, women look at one of the coffins of King Tutankhamun at the Egyptian museum in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

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Artist impression' provided by Nature.com, this week showing an Inuk to illustrate a study published in Nature in which Danish scientists carried out a DNA analysis of a tuft of human hair that hasbeen buried in the Greenland permafrost for the last 4,000 years.The first genome sequence of an ancient human is reported in Nature this week. As well as demonstrating a substantial advance in DNA sequencing techniques, the work also highlights a previously unknown migration of humans around 5,500 years agoEske Willerslev and colleagues analysed hairs from a male in Greenland which had been preserved in permafrost for around 4,000 years. Using SNP analysis, they were able to propose certain characteristics of this individual – known as 'Inuk' – such as his skin colour and hair thickness. There are currently very few details known about these particular humans due to the fact that little remains from their culture; however, this work suggests that genomic data can now be used to identify physical traits of individuals from extinct cultures, even when there are only small amounts of material, such as bones, left.

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In this picture made available by Szczecin University's Department of Archaelogy on Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 one of three Neanderthal teeth discovered in Poland is pictured . A team of Polish scientists say they have discovered three Neanderthal teeth in a cave in the southern part of the country. Mikolaj Urbanowski, an archaeologist and the lead researcher, said Monday that, although Neanderthal artifacts have been unearthed in Poland before, the teeth are the first remains of Neanderthals themselves discovered in the country.

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Ex-Trainer Says Mistake Triggered Whale Attack

Posted: 02/25/10 10:36AM
Filed Under: Top News, World, Animals in the News

ORLANDO, Fla. - The former boss of a trainer drowned by a killer whale in Orlando says he believes the attack was triggered by the trainer's mistake.

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Manitoba Pet Owners Push for Rental Rights

Posted: 02/14/10 11:09AM
Filed Under: Top News, Animals in the News, Controversial Rulings

The fur is set to fly in Manitoba over whether landlords should be forced to accept tenants with pets.

Animal owners are lining up behind an opposition bill that, if passed into law, would outlaw no-pet rules at rental properties across the province.

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An employee of Armatix poses for photographers as he presents the “SmartGun Concept" at the International Weapons trade fair in the southern German city of Nuermberg on March 12, 2010.

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Loonie at Par by Summer: CIBC

Interest rate increases will drive the Canadian dollar back up to parity with its U.S. counterpart by this summer, according to a report from CIBC.

Veiled Woman Blocked From Class

The Quebec government has stepped in again in the case of a Muslim woman who refused to remove her niqab veil during a language class.

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