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Australia supplies many of the bees that pollinate crops worldwide.
(By Rich Pedroncelli -- Associated Press)
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Bees Need Protection
· Australia's honeybees, crucial to worldwide food production, need more protection, according to a parliamentary report. Australia is the only country not to suffer from a deadly bee mite known as the varroa destructor. The report urges greater protection -- tighter border and quarantine controls -- from the parasite that could potentially wipe out the Australian bee population. Australia is a major supplier of bees to North America, Japan and the Middle East.
Excavation in Utah Unearths Dinosaurs
· A newly discovered batch of well-preserved dinosaur bones, petrified trees and even freshwater clams in southeastern Utah could provide new clues about life in the region about 150 million years ago.
An excavation at a quarry near Hanksville revealed at least four sauropods, which were long-necked, long-tailed, plant-eating dinosaurs, and two meat-eaters, among other finds, according to the Bureau of Land Management.
The site doesn't contain any new species but offers scientists the chance to learn more about the ecology of that time, said Scott Foss, a paleontologist for the bureau.
The bones were found in the sandstone channel of an ancient river.
"The preservation of these dinosaurs is excellent," Foss said.
Mayor for Life, or Longer
· The residents of a Romanian village knowingly voted in a dead man as their mayor, preferring him to his living opponent.
Neculai Ivascu, 57, who ran the village for almost two decades, died from liver disease just after voting began but still won the election by 23 votes.
"I know he died, but I don't want change," one villager said.
Election officials gave the post to the runner-up, but some villagers have called for a new vote.
