ANIMALS & NATURE

• Pet-Clone Sales Spur Call for Ban

• Jumbo Squid Mass "Suicide" Stumps California Scientists

• Valentine Alert: Male Insects Seduce With Fake Finery

ARCHAEOLOGY & PALEONTOLOGY

• New Dinosaur Species Discovered in Argentina

• "Evolving to Eat Mush": How Meat Changed Our Bodies

• Oldest Human Fossils Identified

ENVIRONMENT

• U.S. Oil, Gas Threatened by Louisiana Wetlands Loss

• Conservationists Name Nine New "Biodiversity Hotspots"

• Spare PC Power Aids Climate Scientists

HISTORY & CULTURE

• Ancient Texts as "Fossils": How They Survive

• At Remote Eskimo School, Yearning for the Lower 48

• With 20 Official Languages, Is EU Lost in Translation?

SCIENCE & SPACE

• Invisibility Shields Planned by Engineers

• Seafloor Still About 90 Percent Unknown, Experts Say

• Pluto Mission Takes Aim at Last Unvisited Planet

HEALTH

• U.S. Racking Up Huge "Sleep Debt"

• Pig Stem Cells to Be Used to Grow Human Organs?

• Potato Vaccine for Hepatitis B: Syringes off the Menu?

OFFBEAT

• Python-Tracking Puppy Trains to Patrol Everglades

TRAVEL & ADVENTURE

• Saving South Africa's Floral Heritage

• Cajun Chicken Chases Spice Up Rural Mardi Gras

• Game-Filled Park Is School for South African Kids

PULSE OF THE PLANET

• As Arctic Ice Melts, Rush Is on for Shipping Lanes, More

• No Nuts, No Problem: Squirrels Harvest Maple Syrup

• Winter Birds Begin Singing Their Rites of Spring

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL

• 4-D Ultrasound Gives Video View of Fetuses in the Womb

• "Smart Bombs" Change Face of Modern War

• Hurricanes of History -- From Dinosaur Times to Today