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Russia To Make Polar Bear Hunting Legal
UPI Correspondent Moscow (UPI) April 16, 2007 The Russian government is set to allow residents in the town of Vankarem to legally hunt polar bears that have been moving into the region. In response to the increasing number of polar bears traveling into the eastern Russian region due to the changing climate, officials are set to permit legal hunting of the animals for the first time in more than 50 years, the New York Times said Monday. "The normal life space for the polar bears is shrinking," Pacific Scientific Research and Fisheries Center biologist Anatoly A. Kochnev said. "They come in search of food on the shore, and the main sources of food are where people live." The move comes as other nations have begun classifying polar bears as an endangered species. Before the hunting ban, established in 1956, can be lifted in the Chukotka region, a census of the animals must be conducted to determine the true population in the area. The Times said even if the hunting ban is lifted, it would only include that specific region and would only include subsistence hunting.
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Protein Fragments Sequenced In 68 Million-Year-Old Tyrannosaurus Rex
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 16, 2007In a venture once thought to lie outside the reach of science, researchers from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have captured and sequenced tiny pieces of collagen protein from a 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex. The protein fragments-seven in all-appear to most closely match amino acid sequences found in collagen of present day chickens, lending support to a recent and still controversial proposal that birds and dinosaurs are evolutionarily related. The HMS and BIDMC researchers, working with scientists at North Carolina State University, report their findings in the April 13 Science. |
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