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Over the weekend the Sony PlayStation Network went offline and a plane carrying a Sony executive was diverted following a bomb threat. Both events have been credited to the person or people behind the Twitter account @LizardSquad, an account which also purportedly supported the Islamic State (formerly known as Isis). Just over a week ago, the Twitter account came to life, having been dormant …
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Conservationists in Scotland search dunes and marshes by flashlight, looking for critically endangered natterjack toads.
From BBC News:
The scientists search the area after dark, using torchlight to find the natterjacks.
The toads are then measured and photographed.
James Silvey of RSPB Scotland said: “The beautiful thing about natterjacks is they each come with their own individual fingerprint, and that’s in the form of the big warts and the yellow stripe on their backs.
“Each of the toads we photograph today could potentially live for 10 or 15 years and if we photograph it again we’ll know that individual was found here at Mersehead in 2014.
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Byline: The Lizard lifeboat volunteer crew and shore crew members with help from the public took part in an abseil challenge on Saturday 23 August at Kynance Cove on the Lizard peninsular. Page Content: A perfect flat cliff face above Kynance Cove was selected to abseil down by David Issitt, a member of the shore crew at The Lizard lifeboat station who came up with the idea of the abseil …
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The hacker group that claimed to have taken down Sony's PlayStation Network over the weekend is claiming another scalp : Microsoft's Xbox Live. The group, known as Lizard Squad, took responsibility for the denial-of-service attack, the second in as many days. We hear there are some Xbox Live issues, sorry 
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Hackers reportedly forced an American Airlines plane to make an emergency landing over a threat linked to a top Sony executive onboard.
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Mike S. & SpinningGamera take home the commenting awards this week.
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(PHOTO COURTESY: Laura Balch) AMAGON, Ark. (AP) – A two-headed snapping turtle has been born in Northeast Arkansas. The Jonesboro Sun reports the baby turtle was discovered last week at the NEA Turtle Farm in Amagon. An employee says the common snapper was discovered among a group of 30,000 that will be shipped to China. …
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An Arkansas biologist calls a newborn two-headed snapping turtle rare, but he says turtle mutations are becoming more common.
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Hackers naming themselves “Lizard Squad” have attacked Blizzard, Sony and other video game networks over the weekend.
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“Lizard Squad” takes down PSN, then targets plane carrying Sony Online CEO.
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Hackers reportedly forced an American Airlines plane to make an emergency landing over a threat linked to a top Sony executive onboard.
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AMAGON — A two-headed snapping turtle has been born in Northeast Arkansas.
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An American Airlines flight carrying Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley was diverted on Sunday after a hacker group dubbed the Lizard…
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Sony has confirmed that a massive DDoS attack took down its popular online gaming network this past weekend, leaving millions of gamers out in the cold as they tried to connect to the service. Two different entities, a hacker group called “Lizard Squad” and a lone hacker named “Fame,” both claimed responsibility for the PlayStation Network attack, but an investigation is ongoing. Sony says that …
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A group of hackers calling themselves “Lizard Squad” has taken down several popular online video game networks and possibly diverted an American Airlines jet carrying a Sony executive. Over the weekend, Blizzard Entertainment, CCP Games, Riot Games and Sony have done maintenance to bring their networks back online. The hackers, speaking […]
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As if cutting off from their games millions of users wasn't enough for the day, Forbes reports that [the] hacker collective (or individual) known as the “Lizard Squad” succeeded in taking offline many gaming services including Blizzard’s Battle.net and Sony PSN. But things took a turn from irritating DDoS attacks to another level of harassment earlier this afternoon when the group took to …
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A critically endangered tree frog has just been discovered in Madagascar.
From Newsweek:
Boophis ankarafensis, as the scientists have dubbed the amphibian, is bright green with red speckles red on its head and back. It was found on the Sahamalaza Peninsula in the Ankarafa forest, from whence its name comes.
The frog’s call—a series of high-pitched trills, followed by three clicks—differs slightly from related frog species, which stop at a pair of clicks. Its body size and coloration are also slightly different; genetic analysis proved that it is indeed a separate species, according to a study describing the animal published today in the journal ZooKeys.
Although the Sahamalaza-Iles Radama National Park, where the frog is found, remains protected in name, deforestation is rampant in the surrounding forests, the researchers wrote.
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Hackers naming themselves “Lizard Squad” have attacked Blizzard, Sony and other video game networks over the weekend.
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Scientists have discovered a new snail species near a cement quarry in Malaysia, which as far as they know lives nowhere else in the world. It lives on a limestone hill called Kanthan given as a concession to an international company Lafarge. The cement producer quarries the hill for raw materials. As a result, the scientists have named the species after the company that will decide if it goes extinct.
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Quito (AFP) – “Pepe the Missionary,” a giant tortoise who rose to fame as one of the most photographed animals on Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, has died at age 60, officials said Friday. Pepe, who lived in a corral at the Galapagos National Park's Interpretation Center, died of natural causes, said the park's ecosystems director, Victor Carrion. Park director Arturo Izurieta paid tribute to the …
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Check out this video “Bubblegum the Talking Snake,” submitted by kingsnake.com user snakewz.
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They discovered the genetic “recipe” for lizard tail regeneration, which may come down to using genetic ingredients in just the right mixture and amounts. By following the genetic recipe for regeneration that is found in lizards, and then harnessing those same genes in human cells, it may be possible to regrow new cartilage, muscle or even spinal cord in the future. “Lizards basically share the …
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NASA is planning to send rats to the International Space Station so they can study the effects of microgravity on animals.
From Fox News:
While rodents have flown on space shuttle flights in the past, those missions have only lasted a week or two. This new rats in space mission, however, could range between 30 and 90 days, depending on the availability of spacecraft like SpaceX’s Dragon capsule to ferry them on the roundtrip.
This means there will need to be changes to animal husbandry to keep the rats happy and healthy, said Julie Robinson, NASA’s chief scientist for the space station, in a recent press conference. [Animal Pioneers of the Space Age (Photos)]
“This will allow animals to be studied for longer period of time on space station missions,” she said, adding that of the 35 or so studies where rats have gone into space, few of them have gone for more than two weeks.
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Fitch Ratings has affirmed the following ratings assigned to the senior unsecured notes and mandatory redeemable preferred shares issued by Tortoise Pipeline & Energy Fu
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Scientists hope a new discovey about the origin of snake venom can lead to more effective treatments of snake bites.
From Laboratory Equipment:
The genes encoding these proteins have been duplicated at some point in the past and one of the resulting copies has been restricted to the venom gland, where natural selection has acted to develop or increase toxicity. This differs from the long-standing hypothesis that venom proteins are “recruited” from body tissues, in the sense that these proteins are already expressed in the venom or salivary gland prior to becoming toxic.
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Lizard tails have fascinated humans from ancient times, falling off and growing back just like new. Now, scientists have solved the mystery of how lizards can regenerate their tails.
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The green anole lizard is master of a well-known trick: it can disconnect its tail in a jam and grow a new one. It's not only impressive, but enviable: regrowing broken or missing body parts has long been the dream of regenerative medicine. Now scientists have unlocked the secret to the lizard’s regenerative abilities, and it lies, in large part, within genes that humans share with the reptiles …
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A GENETIC program that triggers new tissue growth when a lizard loses its tail could hold the key to muscle and nerve regeneration in humans, a study says.
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Selective logging in India’s Western Ghats forests continues to affect frogs decades after harvesting ended, finds a new study published in Biotropica. The research assessed frog communities in logged and unlogged forests in Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve and found that unlogged forests had twice the density of frogs as areas logged in the 1970s.
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A loggerhead turtle from the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Hospital got to head home Wednesday.
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M-M Properties seeks tenants for the high-rise to be built at Turtle Creek and Cedar Springs, across from the Perot Group’s new headquarters.
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Sometimes all it takes is fewer clicks. Scientists have discovered a new species of frog from Madagascar that stuck out because it “clicked” less during calls than similar species. Unfortunately the scientists believe the new species—dubbed the Ankarafa skeleton frog—is regulated to a single patch of forest, which, despite protected status, remains hugely threatened.
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By understanding the secret of how lizards regenerate their tails, researchers may be able to develop ways to stimulate the regeneration of limbs in humans. Now, a team of researchers is one step closer to solving that mystery. The scientists have discovered the genetic “recipe” for lizard tail regeneration, which may come down to using genetic ingredients in just the right mixture and amounts.
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Scientists from Arizona State University used gene sequencing technology to study the process in the green anole lizard, Anolis carolinensis.
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Understanding how lizards shed and regrow their tails could lead to muscle and nerve regeneration in humans, say scientists.
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Snakes, turtles, and lizards will be among partygoers at North Plains Public Library's end-of-summer reading party, as the Reptile Man leads the library's weekly Wacky Wednesday event at Jessie Mays Community Hall. Other events today include the Portland Open and free vision screening at Hillsboro Main Library.
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A woman saved her great-grandson’s pet bearded dragon by performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
From the Daily Mail:
‘I really couldn’t remember how many chest compressions should be given before a rescue breath, but he was blue so I just did it. I was really amazed it worked.’
Working for what she said felt like a half hour, she held the motionless Del and rubbed his belly, then hung him upside down to clear water from his mouth and breathed air past his teeth.
Before long, he opened his eyes and started to move.
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Here’s a challenge: take a conservationist out for a drink and ask them about their work. Nine times out of ten—or possibly more—you’ll walk away feeling frustrated, despondent, and utterly hopeless. Yet a few conservation scientist are not just trying to save species from extinction, but also working to save their field—their life’s work—from slipping into total despair.
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Around 100,000 elephants were killed by poachers for their ivory on the African continent in just three years, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Between 2010 and 2012 an average of 6.8 percent of the elephant population was killed annually, equaling just over 20 percent of the continent’s population in that time.
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Check out what Slash says for Turtle Conservancy.
Turtle Conservancy – Slash from Turtle Conservancy on Vimeo.
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