by Jacqui Goddard
He has not been given a name, just a green tag that denotes him as Number One. Though he resides alone for now, there are thousands more green tags ready and waiting for those who will surely come to join him.
Bewildered, hungry and still a little sticky, the first bird plucked from the [...]

BY PEGGY CURRAN
MONTREAL — An ancient pygmy sea cow isn’t the kind of thing you find every day.
More like every 45 million years.
So when Karen Samonds, a paleontologist whose work focuses on the evolutionary history of Madagascar’s modern fauna, discovered fossilized teeth and bits of skull in sandstone and limestone rocks in the island nation [...]