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| Bellingham family with two pugs learns that mushrooms can be fatal to pets | On Nov. 2, Renee Bliss of Bellingham was in Seattle helping a friend find flowers for a wedding and her husband, Bill, was out of town on business when she learned the terrible news. Their son Dustin had gone to their house on Lake Whatcom and found Milo, the family's 8-year-old pug… |
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| Giant Eocene bird was 'gentle herbivore', study finds | A team of researchers from Washington, US, examined tracks uncovered in a landslide in 2009. Previous investigations have suggested the giant bird was a carnivorous predator or scavenger. But the absence of raptor-like claws in the footprints supports the theory that Diatryma was… |
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| Eocene Big Bird Not so Scary, After All | The reign of the dinosaurs came to a catastrophic end 66 million years ago. That’s the common trope, anyway – a holdover from before we recognized that at least one feathery lineage survived and proliferated after the K/Pg devastation. We still live in the Age of Dinosaurs – a 230 million year… |
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| Maine research center to probe deep-sea microbes | Bigelow Laboratory’s Single Cell Genomics Center in Maine has extracted and amplified DNA from microbial cells that appear to thrive miles deep in the ocean, which until recently was thought to be devoid of life. |
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| For The Military, A Possible Fall From Grace | Although the story so far is of a personal failing, it's possible that the widening sex scandal surrounding retired Gen. David Petraeus will begin to affect the military's reputation as a whole. "David Petraeus suddenly falling that far off that high a pedestal is feeding… |
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| US Veterans Increasingly Segregated From Civilians | When the United States celebrated Veterans Day on Sunday, did you personally thank any soldiers for their service? That might depend on where you live. |
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| Bible software company Logos helps spark Bellingham's downtown revival | At different crossroads during the past three decades, city officials have had to grapple with a dying downtown district. It's quite unlikely that they could have predicted a Bible software company would be one of its saviors. Logos Bible Software arrived in downtown Bellingham 10… |
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| Photos a century apart document glacial changes on Mount Baker | About seven years ago, when mountain photographer John Scurlock first saw the 1912 photograph of the south side of Mount Baker, he was smitten with its historical value. When Dave Tucker, a geology research assistant at Western Washington University, saw the photograph, he was intrigued… |
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| Shannon Point gets grant to study impacts of ocean acidification |