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• A 52-million year-old fossil shows bats developed flight before sonar

  - 2008-02-13

  PARIS AFP — A nearly perfect bat fossil unveiled on Wednesday, has settled a long-simmering evolutionary debate: that the animals could fly before they developed sonar to track and trap their prey. Most experts had thought it was the other way around, according to the study, published in the...

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• Search for Indonesian plane finds aircraft nose–like object

  - 2007-01-15

  JAKARTA AFP — Investigators searching for a missing Indonesian airliner have said they have detected an object resembling an aircraft nose on the sea bed. The Adam Air plane was carrying 102 passengers and crew when it went missing halfway through its flight from Surabaya on the central island of...

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• US ship combs seabed for missing plane

  - 2007-01-10

  ON BOARD KRI FATAHILLAH, Indonesia AFP — A US Navy ocean survey ship has scanned the waters off an Indonesian island where investigators believe metal objects detected on the seabed could be wreckage from a missing passenger plane. The large objects were detected by sonar at a depth of around...

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• US environmentalists score victory against US Navy

  - 2006-07-04

  LOS ANGELES AFP — A judge here has temporarily banned the US Navy from using a certain type of sonar after environmental organizations said it can endanger marine mammals, a court source said. US District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper ruled that there was "considerable convincing scientific evidence" that mid-frequency sonar,...

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• French navy loses multi-million-dollar sonar at sea

  - 2006-04-19

  PARIS AFP — The French navy made a red-faced admission that it had lost a multi-million dollar sonar navigation device after its cable ripped in stormy waters. Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie confirmed a report in the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine, and said an investigation had been launched into...

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• Australian navy denies links to whale strandings

  - 2005-10-26

  SYDNEY AFP — The Australian navy denied its ships were behind two mysterious mass strandings in 24 hours that left 130 pilot whales dead on the coast of the island state of Tasmania. Wildlife rangers said a pod of about 80 pilot whales beached themselves at Marion Bay late...

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• US govt probes possible submarine link to dolphins' death

  - 2005-03-06

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US government has launched an investigation into whether the mass beaching of dolphins in south Florida this past week was caused by naval exercises involving a sonar-equipped submarine, officials said. More than 60 disoriented dolphins swam into ankle-deep waters off the Florida Keys near the...

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• British navy releases images of Indian Ocean earthquake seabed

  - 2005-02-09

  LONDON AFP — The British Navy surveying the seabed at the epicenter of December's Indian Ocean earthquake released its first images that indicate a landslide occurred where two plates came together in a ridge. The Royal Navy's HMS Scott has been taking underwater sonar readings off the Indonesian island...

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• British navy to survey Indian Ocean tsunami epicenter

  - 2005-01-24

  LONDON AFP — A British navy ship was due to set off from Singapore to survey the seabed off Indonesia to find out how last month's devastating tsunami happened, the defence ministry revealed. The Royal Navy's HMS Scott will take sonar readings off the Indonesian island of Sumatra to...

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