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<item><title><![CDATA[Hundreds of new marine species discovered: Australian scientists]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/79004/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of new marine species and previously uncharted undersea mountains and canyons have been discovered in the depths of the Southern Ocean, Australian scientists said Wednesday.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extinct penguin species discovered]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/82280/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Scientists from the University of Adelaide are part of a team which has discovered evidence of a penguin species that lived in New Zealand 500 years ago.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New giant clam species discovered]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/74444/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A new species of giant clam has been discovered in the Red Sea.<br/><br/>Fossils suggest that, about 125,000 years ago, the species Tridacna costata accounted for more than 80% of the area's giant clams.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare Bolivian river dolphin is new species]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61666/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A rare river dolphin has been officially classified as a new species.<br/><br/>The Bolivian river dolphin has been acknowledged as a separate species to the more widely-known Amazon River dolphin.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Polar bears listed as threatened species]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61827/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Polar bears were listed on Wednesday as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act because their sea ice habitat is melting away, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Species of Tiny Gecko Discovered]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/81459/1/</link><description><![CDATA[French scientists find new species of gecko, hatched from egg 12,000 miles from island home.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steelhead listed as 'threatened' species]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19440/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Puget Sound steelhead were listed Monday as a &quot;threatened&quot; species under the Endangered Species Act, the National Marine Fisheries Service said.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. declares Ecuador's Galapagos islands in danger]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25272/1/</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;They are threatened by invasive species, growing tourism and immigration,&quot; the UNESCO's world heritage committee meeting in New Zealand said a statement.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New 150 Million-year-old Crab Species Discovered]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/38976/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Researchers from Kent State University and the University of Bucharest, Romania, have discovered a new primitive crab species Cycloprosopon dobrogea in eastern Romania.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New species of sea anemone discovered]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20971/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Researchers found a new species of sea anemone living in the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean and in the most unlikely location - a whale carcass.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New limbless lizard species discovered]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21728/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An Indian zoologist said Monday he has found a new species of limbless lizard in a forested area in the country's east.<br/><br/>Looks like a snake to me.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists Discover Rare Albino Ratfish]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36625/1/</link><description><![CDATA[There may never be a campaign to save the Puget Sound ratfish; no one really loves the ugly fish with rodent-like front teeth. But when a rare albino ratfish was found during a marine survey this past summer, scientists decided it was time to educate the public about the most abundant fish in local waters.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare albino cobra unable to survive in wild]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/74850/1/</link><description><![CDATA[This rare albino cobra may look beautiful, but it is just as deadly as the rest of its species. The three-and-a-half foot reptile was the only one of his albino siblings to survive, and is now kept on his own in a specially constructed enclosure.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[20 shark, ray species discovered in Indonesia]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/11825/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Scientists document findings in effort to better track populations.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biologists rediscover rare cloud rat in Philippines: report]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/59816/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A rare rat species last seen over a century ago in the mountainous northern Philippines has been rediscovered by a team of American and Filipino biologists, a report said Sunday.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[World's Largest Shrew Discovered]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49019/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The previously unknown, squirrel-size species is the world's largest known elephant shrew and the only new species from the group to be discovered in more than a century.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Butterfly won't get species protection]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18853/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A butterfly found only at a popular Nevada off-road vehicle site won't receive federal protection as a threatened or endangered species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided Wednesday.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New bat species discovered in Philippines]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35891/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A new species of flying fox or fruit bat has been discovered on an island south of Manila. The orange-coloured bat with a distinctive white-stripped face was discovered in a protected wildlife area on Mindoro Island.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare mammal remains found in Greece]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28521/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A group of paleontologists has discovered the tusks and petrified remains of a mastodon, a large mammoth-like mammal that lived some three million years ago.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than 1,000 species discovered in Mekong over the past 10 years]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/85039/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The &quot;biological treasure trove&quot; includes a spider as large as a dinner plate, a Gumprechts green pitviper, two salamanders and a toad.]]></description></item></channel></rss>