http://www.mail.com/subjects/84-mammals.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.20/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/84-mammals.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1761708-scientists-seek-to-solve-mystery-piltdown-man.html LONDON (AP) — It was an archaeological hoax that fooled scientists for decades. A century on, researchers are determined to find out who was responsible for Piltdown Man, the missing link that never was. In December 1912, it was announced that a lawyer and amateur archaeologist named Charles Dawson had made an astonishing discovery in a gravel pit in sout... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:13:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1761708-scientists-seek-to-solve-mystery-piltdown-man.html 2012-12-12T17:13:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1757718-pet-apps-clutter-free-gifts-owners.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Apps aren't just for people anymore. Here is a roundup of popular pet apps for mobile devices. The cost of apps ranges from free to a few dollars. For the iPhone, iPod or iPad: — Dog Park Finder Plus, a list of more than 6,000 dog parks and beaches in North America. Also lists 12,000 dog-friendly r... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:19:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1757718-pet-apps-clutter-free-gifts-owners.html 2012-12-11T11:19:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1757716-holiday-gifts-pets-high-tech-trend.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — A holiday present for Fido or Fluffy used to be an extra table scrap or a new squeeze toy. But as with gifts for their human counterparts, pet presents are becoming increasingly high-tech. Like presents for young children who lack the dexterity to enjoy their new playthings, pet gifts are usually for the human who owns the pet. Allie Ro... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:01:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1757716-holiday-gifts-pets-high-tech-trend.html 2012-12-11T09:01:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1756130-coat-wearing-monkey-caught-toronto-store.html TORONTO (AP) — Shoppers at an Ikea store in Toronto weren't monkeying around when they reported a primate on the loose. Customers spotted a monkey — clad in a pint-sized shearling coat — wandering around the store's parking lot Sunday afternoon. The baby monkey, named Darwin, made its way through rows of parked cars and ended up outside a set of store doors. Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1756130-coat-wearing-monkey-caught-toronto-store.html 2012-12-10T16:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1753942-crew-tows-whale-carcass-malibu-to-sea.html MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — A tugboat towed the decomposing carcass of a whale from a Malibu beach out to sea, several days after it washed ashore and created a stench near the homes of movie stars and millionaires. The remains of the 40,000-pound fin whale were towed Saturday about 20 miles from shore by a crew hired by a homeowners' association, Los Angeles C... Sun, 09 Dec 2012 09:30:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1753942-crew-tows-whale-carcass-malibu-to-sea.html 2012-12-09T09:30:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1752596-rotting-whale-carcass-malibu-towed-to-sea.html MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — The decaying carcass of a whale that washed onto a California beach was towed out to sea Saturday, five days after it washed ashore and created a stench near the Malibu homes of movie stars and millionaires. A tugboat hired by a homeowners' association towed the carcass of the huge fin whale about 20 miles from shore, Los Angeles Cou... Sun, 09 Dec 2012 04:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1752596-rotting-whale-carcass-malibu-towed-to-sea.html 2012-12-09T04:28:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1750422-rotting-whale-sad-spectacle-malibu.html MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — The decaying corpse of a huge fin whale was a sad spectacle Friday on the shore of a cove where it washed ashore nearly a week earlier. With no government agency taking action to remove the rapidly rotting mammal from Little Dume beach, it appeared that the job would be left to decomposition and nature's scavengers. A few people wand... Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1750422-rotting-whale-sad-spectacle-malibu.html 2012-12-07T23:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1750874-coffee-elephants-gut-fills-50-cup.html GOLDEN TRIANGLE, Thailand (AP) — In the lush hills of northern Thailand, a herd of 20 elephants is excreting some of the world's most expensive coffee. Trumpeted as earthy in flavor and smooth on the palate, the exotic new brew is made from beans eaten by Thai elephants and plucked a day later from their dung. A gut reaction inside the elephant creates wh... Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:13:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1750874-coffee-elephants-gut-fills-50-cup.html 2012-12-07T15:13:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1744448-clashes-financing-threat-un-climate-talks.html DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The world's poorest nations on Wednesday called for significant financing to cope with the impacts of global warming, setting up a potential clash with rich countries that could slow progress on reaching a global climate pact by 2015. Rich countries, including the United States, said at U.N. climate talks in Doha that they have fulfille... Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1744448-clashes-financing-threat-un-climate-talks.html 2012-12-05T18:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1744590-poachers-kill-4-rhinos-1-kenyan-wildlife-park.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Officials at a wildlife park in Kenya say they found four dead rhinoceros shot by poachers in a two-day span. The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy said Wednesday that two male black rhinos and two female black rhinos were killed. The bodies were discovered on Saturday and Sunday. Lewa has lost 10 rhinos to poaching in the last three years. ... Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1744590-poachers-kill-4-rhinos-1-kenyan-wildlife-park.html 2012-12-05T08:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1742998-grizzly-managers-toward-hunts-rockies.html BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — With bear-human conflicts on the rise, wildlife managers in the Northern Rockies are laying the groundwork for trophy hunts for grizzlies in anticipation of the government lifting their threatened species status. It's expected to be 2014 before about 600 bears around Yellowstone National Park lose their federal protections, and poss... Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1742998-grizzly-managers-toward-hunts-rockies.html 2012-12-04T22:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1742718-foreign-poachers-target-cameroon-elephants-expert.html YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Despite armed guards, Cameroon's dwindling elephant population is being decimated by heavily armed gangs of international poachers, according to a top official of the World Wide Fund for Nature. Tighter security has been mounted because intelligence shows that two gangs of poachers from Sudan are heading for the area, said WWF Cam... Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1742718-foreign-poachers-target-cameroon-elephants-expert.html 2012-12-04T18:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1741660-study-lion-ranges-populations-dropping-africa.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The lions that roam Africa's savannahs have lost as much as 75 percent of their habitat in the last 50 years as humans overtake their land and the lion population dwindles, said a study released Tuesday. Researchers at Duke University, including prominent conservationist Stuart Pimm, warn that the number of lions across the continent h... Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1741660-study-lion-ranges-populations-dropping-africa.html 2012-12-04T12:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1736282-pope-greets-clowns-acrobats-circus-to-town.html VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI greeted thousands of clowns, acrobats, puppeteers and even a pair of lion cubs on Saturday as the circus came to town for an unusual papal performance. Benedict clapped and watched amused as circus workers flipped, flopped, juggled and twisted before him in what the Vatican has called a historic audience to make stree... Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:48:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1736282-pope-greets-clowns-acrobats-circus-to-town.html 2012-12-01T13:48:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1729402-review-rooming-with-strangers-game-trust.html NEW YORK (AP) — "Do we still have a TV?" That's the text message I got from my husband as I walked up the steps to our Brooklyn apartment on a Friday afternoon this fall. I was fairly sure that we did. I opened the door. Cats, check. TV, check. He needed to know because we'd just entrusted a stranger, by most senses of the word, with k... Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1729402-review-rooming-with-strangers-game-trust.html 2012-11-29T19:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1730878-russian-children-find-lion-cub-take-to-school.html MOSCOW (AP) — Most primary school classes get a goldfish to keep, a hamster or a turtle if they're lucky — but children from one village in southern Russia got to play with a lion cub. Children in the Rostov region found the 5-month old cub on the steppe Wednesday and brought it to their teacher, who kept it in the school gym, police said Thursday. While ... Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1730878-russian-children-find-lion-cub-take-to-school.html 2012-11-29T11:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1730198-zebra-mini-horse-corralled-nyc-street-jaunt.html NEW YORK (AP) — New York City can be like a zoo sometimes, but a zebra running wild through the streets is not something you ordinarily see. The Staten Island Advance reports (http://bit.ly/Yr7soL) a zebra and a miniature horse were spotted trotting through a shopping center parking lot Wednesday morning in Staten Island. Metropolitan Drape & Blind owner ... Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:15:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1730198-zebra-mini-horse-corralled-nyc-street-jaunt.html 2012-11-29T00:15:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1729294-zippers-bo-flakes-deck-white-house.html WASHINGTON (AP) — "Bo-flakes" featuring the first dog and ornaments fashioned from zippers are among the new twists on traditional favorites at the White House this Christmas season. First lady Michelle Obama unveiled this year's decorations before an appreciative crowd of military families Wednesday, then spent some time doing holiday crafts with militar... Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:04:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1729294-zippers-bo-flakes-deck-white-house.html 2012-11-28T20:04:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1727918-rhino-killings-horns-rapidly-rise-s-africa.html VAALKOP DAM NATURE RESERVE, South Africa (AP) — By the time ranchers found the rhinoceros calf wandering alone in this idyllic setting of scrub brush and acacia, the nature reserve had become yet another blood-soaked crime scene in South Africa's losing battle against poachers. Hunters killed eight rhinos at the private Finfoot Game Reserve inside the Vaa... Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1727918-rhino-killings-horns-rapidly-rise-s-africa.html 2012-11-28T08:49:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1725456-northern-boy-swept-to-sea-missing.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Howard Kuljian and his family were out for a walk on a damp, overcast morning at Big Lagoon state beach on Saturday, playing fetch with their dog Fran as eight-to-10-foot surf churned the water just feet away like a washing machine. Kuljian tossed a stick that took the dog down to the water's edge, and in an instant, authorities said,... Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1725456-northern-boy-swept-to-sea-missing.html 2012-11-27T17:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1724542-gop-blocks-bill-to-hunters-land-access.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A wide-ranging bill to give hunters and fishermen more access to public lands stalled in the Senate Monday after Republicans said it spends too much money. Republicans supported opening lands for outdoorsmen and many other provisions in the bill sponsored by Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, but GOP senators blocked the legislation on principl... Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1724542-gop-blocks-bill-to-hunters-land-access.html 2012-11-27T00:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1724194-n-california-community-mourns-family-swept-to-sea.html SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Howard Kuljian and his family were out for a walk on a damp, overcast morning at Big Lagoon beach, playing fetch with their dog Fran as 10-foot surf churned the water just feet away like a washing machine. Signs near the beach warned of "sneaker waves," the kind that suddenly roar ashore. Kuljian tossed a stick that took the dog down ... Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1724194-n-california-community-mourns-family-swept-to-sea.html 2012-11-26T23:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1724424-dog-days-cuba-shih-tzus-to-schnauzers.html HAVANA (AP) — The Cuban capital has played host to political summits and art festivals, ballet tributes and international baseball competitions. Now dog lovers are getting their chance to take center stage. Hundreds of people from all over Cuba and several other countries came to a scruffy field near Revolution Plaza this past week to preen and fuss over ... Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1724424-dog-days-cuba-shih-tzus-to-schnauzers.html 2012-11-26T17:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1719018-scientists-galapagos-tortoise-revived.html LIMA, Peru (AP) — Lonesome George, the late reptile prince of the Galapagos Islands, may be dead, but scientists now say he may not be the last giant tortoise of his species after all. Researchers say they may be able to resurrect the Pinta Island subspecies by launching a cross-breeding program with 17 other tortoises found to contain genetic material si... Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1719018-scientists-galapagos-tortoise-revived.html 2012-11-22T21:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1718162-official-man-killed-zoo-monkey-theft-try.html BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A 22-year-old man clubbed a monkey to death with a tree branch, after he was bitten by the animal while trying to steal it from a Boise zoo, prosecutors allege. Michael J. Watkins entered Zoo Boise on Saturday morning, manipulated a lock to get into the primate enclosure and removed the patas monkey by wrapping it in his jacket, Ada Co... Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1718162-official-man-killed-zoo-monkey-theft-try.html 2012-11-22T08:23:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1716044-prosecutor-theft-was-motive-monkey-killing.html BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Prosecutors said Wednesday that the man accused of killing a monkey at Boise's zoo hoped to steal the animal before he was bitten and clubbed it to death with a tree branch. Michael J. Watkins, 22, entered Zoo Boise on Saturday morning, manipulated a lock to get into the primate enclosure and removed the patas monkey by wrapping it in ... Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1716044-prosecutor-theft-was-motive-monkey-killing.html 2012-11-21T22:55:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1716306-turkeys-people-eat-them-feed-them.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Turkeys: Main course or animal companion? OK, so it isn't even close. According to the industry group National Turkey Federation, more than 46 million of the big birds will be served as Thanksgiving dinner this year. Just a few hundred will get to experience the holiday as a pet, said turkey rescue Farm Sanctuary. "I... Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:11:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1716306-turkeys-people-eat-them-feed-them.html 2012-11-21T18:11:00Z