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Posted on February 28, 2012 by Paul Weiland As Dean Kuipers reported in the Los Angeles Times, on February 27, four environmental groups petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission to list the gray wolf (Canis lupis) as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act. The petition is available here (pdf).

TAXONOMY, NOMENCLATURE and PHYLOGENY (Emslie 1988)(Ericson et al 2006) (Geyer et al 1993)(Hackett et al 2008) (Houston, 1994) (Miller 1995) (Sibley & Ahlquist 1990) (Tree of Life Web Project 2009) Describer (Date): Shaw (1797) Vultur californianus in Shaw and Nodder's Naturalist's Miscellany, vol 9, pl. 301 and text. Amadon (1977) retained Gymnogyps.

Fossils show ancient insects grew as long as 2 centimeters Web edition : Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 The flea's features weren't always set in stone. Ancient fleas were larger and had longer siphons to suck blood with than today's fleas, researchers report in a study published online February 29 in Nature.

By John Matson, Scientific American(Click here for original article.) There may be a bit more room at the bottom, after all. In 1959 physicist Richard Feynman issued a famed address at a meeting of the American Physical Society, a talk entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom." It was an invitation to push the boundaries of the miniature, a nanotech call to arms that many physicists heeded to great effect.

Ah yes, the fine print. Tricky territory, especially if you're the owner of a relatively new General Motors vehicle equipped with OnStar. If so, you might want to get out your magnifying glass and have a gander at OnStar's new terms and conditions policy.