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A group of scientists are collecting the tissues ofendangered animals and freezing them, so they will be ableto create clones later on, if the animals become extinct.

Zoologist Phil Rainbow says, “Natural catastrophes apart,the current rate of animal loss is the greatest in thehistory of the earth and the fate of animal species isdesperate.”

The first creatures to join the “ark” are thescimitar-horned oryx from North Africa, the socorro dovefrom Mexico, the mountain chicken (which is actually a frog)from the Caribbean, the banggai cardinal, a fish found inIndonesia, the yellow sea horse from China, the SeychellesFregate beetle, the British field cricket, and Polynesiantree snails.
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Lake Champlain in Vermont has its own “Nessie,” called”Champ.” Five tourists visiting the lake say they saw themonster. Bob Gload says, “I turned around and saw thatexplosion from the water. I saw three humps, two- tothree-feet tall, about four- or five-feet apart.”

In the Plattsburgh, NY Press-Republic, Dan Heath quotesGload as saying, “I was born in Champlain. I never believedin Champ or the Loch Ness monster. I believe now.”
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We recently speculated that 1,500homing pigeonsin Sweden that never returned home may have been confused bythe changing magnetic poles. But some people think they gotlost due to electronic signals from nearby cell phone towers.

The Swedish homing pigeons aren’t the only onesmissing?about 1,600 pigeons vanished out of 1,800 competingin a 200-mile race from northern Virginia to Allentown,Pennsylvania recently and 600 out of 700 birds were missingafter a 150-mile race on the same day from westernPennsylvania to Philadelphia. Pigeons are missing fromBritish races as well.
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