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If all goes as planned, I will be packing through Guatemala in November!
The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and a committee of scientists from around the world recently announced their picks for the top 10 new species.
All were discovered in 2011.Above is the first species on the list - sneezing monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri). It’s so named because it tends to sneeze when it rains. It is the first snub-nosed monkey to be reported from Myanmar.
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Who am I gonna hang out with now that I have to act on principal?
Thousand-Year-Old Mummies Found in Peru
Belgian archaeologists have uncovered a spectacular 1,000-year-old tomb in Peru containing more than 80 skeletons and mummies, many of them infants.
Carved into the earth and covered with a roof of reeds supported by shaped tree trunks, the 60-foot-long, oval chamber was discovered at the site of Pachacamac, about 20 miles south of the capital, Lima.
Poetry is the conversation I have with myself for others to observe. It is the beautiful struggle, a quilt of ideas that are stitched together by trusting hands. It is about achieving clarity by any means necessary, form, meter, word choice, whatever, and standing by the means as majestic insanity. Poetry is about being uncomfortably able, so that the last line is the springboard to walk along farther, harder paths, not knowing where you’re going, but knowing that you’re getting somewhere.
An utterly charming gallery of Victorians smiling
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The hunters become the hunted: Indian state sanctions shooting animal poachers
A western Indian state has declared war on animal poaching by sanctioning its forest guards to shoot hunters on sight in an effort to curb rampant attacks against tigers, elephants and other wildlife.
The government in Maharashtra says injuring or killing suspected poachers will no longer be considered a crime.
According to the Wildlife Protection Society of India, 14 tigers have been killed by poachers in India so far this year — one more than for all of 2011. The tiger is considered endangered, with its habitat range shrinking more than 50 per cent in the last quarter-century and its numbers declining rapidly from the 5,000-7,000 estimated in the 1990s, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. (AP Photo/Corbett Tiger Reserve)
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