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Famed wolf dies on highway

Sep 3, 2008

Famed wolf dies on highway
By Larissa Barlow

The female alpha wolf famed as an image on the town’s new hybrid buses was killed by a vehicle on the Trans-Canada Highway Monday.
The impressive five-year-old leader of the Bow Valley pack was black with a grizzled jawline and gray flecking on her chest. She had a litter of pups born this spring. [more]

Banff Crag and Canyon - Alberta, CA

First map of planet outside our system

May 8, 2008

WorldScience.net

"Astronomers are devising ways to make maps of the distant planets that are being found outside our solar system. Researchers announced Wednesday that they had created the first such map."

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