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News Selection Nov. 12, 2007

By greenexpander ⋅ November 12, 2007 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Prehistoric Fish Found Alive in a Russian Pond - source

Russian Workers in Chelyabinsk city caught a strange creature in a ditch and it tried to bite them. They then killed it with some equipment and these pictures are the remains of it. It was around 5 feet length.

Environmental disaster: Russian oil spil - source

Massive waves split a Russian oil tanker in two during a fierce storm, spilling at least 560,000 gallons of fuel into a strait leading to the Black Sea in what is be the biggest environmental disaster for the area in years.

Dinosaurs had an ultra-efficient breathing system - source

A new study says that velociraptors and some other theropods breathed like today’s geese and penguins. Apart from lungs, they had air sacs attached to their spines. This ultra-efficient breathing system would have helped make the dinosaurs speedy predators.

As China’s success grows, pollution chokes the country - source

China’s environmental problems are mounting. Water pollution and water scarcity are burdening the economy, rising levels of air pollution are endangering the health of millions of Chinese, and much of the country’s land is rapidly turning into desert.

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