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June 27, 2009
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Watching Giants
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We've explored the private lives of some animals - birds, rodents, monkeys to name a few - in exquisite and occasionally embarrassing detail. On the other hand, the lives of some of the most intelligent, charismatic and largest animals on Earth are often a closed book to us. That's because while they're on Earth, they aren't on land, and so often the vast expanses and depths of the briny deep hide them from us much of the time. We are, of course, speaking of the whales. But now their secrets are being revealed by a few determined and inquisitive scientists. What they're finding is explored in a new book by environmental consultant and writer Dr. Elin Kelsey, called Watching Giants: The Secret Lives of Whales.
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The Big Thaw
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Veteran Arctic journalist Ed Struzik has spent more than enough time in the Canadian North in his career to recognize for himself the sudden and dramatic changes that are occurring there. His new book, The Big Thaw: Travels in the Melting North, is more than just his personal recollections, though. It's also the stories of the scientists he's traveled with, who are seeing rapid changes not just with their eyes, but in the evidence they've collected. The changes are also told in the stories of the Inuit people he's spent time with, whose lives are being transformed by climate change in Canada's north.
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How to Build a Dinosaur
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Dr. Jack Horner has had enough of dead dinosaurs. Dr. Horner has spent a career carefully extracting the remains of dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes from the rich fossil beds in the western US, and reconstructing these beasts from their fragmentary fossilized remains. However now, thanks to remarkable advances in paleontology, he thinks it is possible to imagine a future in which dinosaurs can be returned to life, by possibly recovering fragmentary DNA and combining and nurturing it with modern tissues from the descendants of dinosaurs - the birds. The result could be a Chickenosaurus. He describes the possible resurrection of the dinosaurs in his new book, How to Build a Dinosaur - Extinction doesn't have to be Forever.
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