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...PANDA BEAR born at the San Diego Zoo will not make a scheduled June transfer to a zoo in China. Officials are concerned about the panda's human handlers, not the bear...
...rest of life matters," Wilson writes in The Future of Life. "Surely our stewardship is its only hope." Natural habitats provide priceless services to humanity, from climate control to water purification to the supply of our medicines. And what if future generations never have the opportunity to see a panda or humpback whale...
...paleontologist whose theory of evolution challenged that of Charles Darwin's, of cancer; in New York City. Gould, who famously called human evolution "a fortuitous cosmic afterthought," authored The Mismeasure of Man and The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. DIED. CHANG CHANG, 35, the world's oldest captive giant panda, of multiple organ failure; in Jinan, China. Chang Chang's body will be preserved and put on display in the northwestern province of Gansu. DIED. NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE, 71, French pop artist and creator of the Nanas sculptures; in San Diego. Saint Phalle's other important works include...
China got a third helping of "double happiness" last month when a giant panda named No. 20 gave birth to twins at the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Research Center in Sichuan province. It was the latest blessed event in what is shaping up as a banner year for the woefully endangered species. No. 20 was the third artificially inseminated panda to bear twins since July, and there are about a dozen other expectant moms in the province, most of them living in specially built, air-conditioned delivery rooms to protect their payloads. In a rare show of environmental goodwill...
...World Wildlife Fund PANDA Weight: 73 kg to 160+ kg From: China Secret Weapon: Broad, flat molars...