In May 2009 the Rainforest Foundation will celebrate 20 years of protecting the Tropics.
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A deep-sea fish caught in the Pacific has eyes which use mirrors instead of lenses, scientists discover.
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The first big discovery has already emerged from China's huge new fossil site. In China's Shandong province, the 2-metre-long skull of a close relative of the famed horned dinosaur triceratops ha(...)