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FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, file photo, a Labrador retriever named Shayna attends a news conference at the American Kennel Club in New York. A study released on Monday, June 17, 2019 suggests that over thousands of years of dog domestication, people preferred dogs that could pull off the ”puppy dog" eyes look. And that encouraged the evolution of the facial muscle behind it, researchers propose. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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Scientists take a peek behind those sad puppy dog eyes
FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, file photo, a Labrador retriever named Shayna attends a news conference at the American Kennel Club in New York. A study released on Monday, June 17, 2019 suggests that over thousands of years of dog domestication, people preferred dogs that could pull off the ”puppy dog" eyes look. And that encouraged the evolution of the facial muscle behind it, researchers propose. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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  • FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, file photo, a Labrador retriever named Shayna attends a news conference at the American Kennel Club in New York. A study released on Monday, June 17, 2019 suggests that over thousands of years of dog domestication, people preferred dogs that could pull off the ”puppy dog" eyes look. And that encouraged the evolution of the facial muscle behind it, researchers propose. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
  • This Sunday, June 16, 2019, photo shows debris behind Beech Grove High School in Beech Grove, Ind., after a tornado moved through the area. Weather officials say severe storms in central Indiana caused floods and produced several tornadoes. (Kelly Wilkinson/The Indianapolis Star via AP)
  • FILE - In this June 12, 2019, file photo, a truck moves around the Oregon state Capitol during a protest against climate bills that truckers say will put them out of business, in Salem, Ore. Oregon is on the precipice of becoming the second state after California to adopt a cap-and-trade program, a market-based approach to lowering the greenhouse gas emissions behind global warming. (AP Photo/Sarah Zimmerman, File)
  • FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, a glacier at left calves icebergs into a fjord off the Greenland ice sheet in southeastern Greenland. The Danish Meteorological Institute said Sunday June 16, 2019, the melting season in Greenland has started a month earlier than usual, and issued a photo by climate researcher Rasmus Tonboe on Twitter showing what they say are sled dogs dragging a sleigh on the ice in Greenland with their paws in melted ice water.(AP Photo/David Goldman, FILE)
  • The covers are brought out as rain delays play during the Nature Valley Open tennis tournament in Nottingham, England, Sunday June 16, 2019. Authorities have reported several deaths across Europe because of storms bringing high winds and torrential downpours across the region. (Tim Goode/PA via AP)
  • FILE - In this May 6, 2019 file photo, Duat Mai stands atop a dead whale at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Federal officials are asking waterfront landowners in western Washington to volunteer their properties to be the final resting place for dead gray whales. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries says so many gray whale carcasses have washed up this year they've run out of locations where they can be left to decompose. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
  • FILE - In this April 19, 2018, file photo, a man displays hemp seeds being prepared for sale to industrial hemp farmers at his facility in Monmouth, Ore. A global hemp research lab announced Thursday, June 13, 2019, in Oregon, is part of a larger movement to bring the standardization to hemp that traditional crops like corn and cotton enjoy. (AP Photos/Gillian Flaccus, File)
  • A Parson Russell terrier, one of many terriers confiscated from a home in Kingwood, N.J., sits in a kennel at St. Hubert's Animal Welfare Center after being treated, Friday, June 14, 2019, in Madison, N.J. Law enforcement officers and animal welfare groups went to the Kingwood home Tuesday to remove the dogs, which were mostly Russell terriers. Officials said the animals seemed to have had limited human contact and minimal to no veterinary care. No charges have been filed, but officials say they're continuing to investigate. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
  • FILE - In this March 29, 2013, file photo, a worker helps monitor water pumping pressure and temperature, at an oil and natural gas extraction site, outside Rifle, on the Western Slope of Colorado. A Trump administration national security official has sought help from advisers to a think tank that disavows climate change to challenge widely accepted scientific findings on global warming, according to his emails. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
  • FILE-In this June 5, 2019 file photo the sun rises behind power poles near Frankfurt, Germany. Researchers calculate that the electricity required for the virtual currency bitcoin generates as much carbon dioxide as cities like Las Vegas or Hamburg. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
  • Valery Plotnikov, Chief Researcher of the Mammoth Fauna Study Department at the Academy of Sciences of Yakutia, Russia, unwraps the head of an Ice Age wolf, June 10, 2019. Experts believe the wolf roamed the earth about 40,000 years ago, but thanks to Siberia's frozen permafrost its brain, fur, tissues and even its tongue have been perfectly preserved, as scientific investigations are underway after it was found in August 2018. (Valery Plotnikov/Mammoth Fauna Study Department at the Academy of Sciences of Yakutia via AP)
  • FILE - In this July 12, 2007 file photo, an adult Piping Plover runs along a beach as waves lap on the shore in the background, in the Quonochontaug Conservation Area, in Westerly, R.I. A concert series on a popular New Jersey beach is cancelled this summer to protect dozens of shorebirds nesting there. Piping plovers usually visit Sandy Hook but this year, they’ve decided to build more than 20 nests. Sandy Hook Foundation made the announcement Thursday, June 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, file)
  • FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2017 file photo, heavy equipment is used at an ash storage site at Gallatin Fossil Plant in Gallatin, Tenn. The nation’s largest public utility has agreed to dig up and remove about 12 million cubic yards of coal ash from unlined pits at Gallatin Fossil Plant. In a Thursday, June 13, 2019 settlement, the Tennessee Valley Authority says it will excavate a majority of coal ash at its Gallatin Fossil Plant. .(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
  • Valery Plotnikov, Chief Researcher of the Mammoth Fauna Study Department at the Academy of Sciences of Yakutia, Russia, unwraps the head of an Ice Age wolf, June 10, 2019. Experts believe the wolf roamed the earth about 40,000 years ago, but thanks to Siberia's frozen permafrost its brain, fur, tissues and even its tongue have been perfectly preserved, as scientific investigations are underway after it was found in August 2018. (Valery Plotnikov/Mammoth Fauna Study Department at the Academy of Sciences of Yakutia via AP)
  • In this Wednesday, June 12, 2019 photo, Matt Cooper, with the City of Dubuque, cleans off an area of American Trust River's Edge Plaza in Dubuque, Iowa, after high water levels of the Mississippi River left large amounts of debris and mud. (Dave Kettering/Telegraph Herald via AP)
  • FILE - In a Nov. 24, 2015 file photo, Willie Mays, right, applauds NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, after she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. The street outside of NASA's Washington headquarters has been renamed "Hidden Figures Way" to honor the African American women who served as "human computers" in the effort to send humans to the moon. News outlets report dignitaries gathered Wednesday, June 12, 2019 in Washington, D.C., to unveil the new street sign. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
  • This May 1, 2019, photo provided by the National Park Service shows a snowplow clearing a 19-foot drift on Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo. This section of the road had been cleared previously but a spring storm dropped more snow, requiring crews to plow it again. Heavy winter snow and a cold, wet May in the Rocky Mountains are sending a welcome surge of spring runoff into the rivers of the Southwestern U.S., fending off a water shortage but threatening to push some streams over their banks. (National Park Service via AP)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2013, file photo, an exercise rider takes a horse for a workout at Santa Anita Park with palm trees and the San Gabriel Mountains as a backdrop in Arcadia, Calif. A second horse in two days and 29th overall died at Santa Anita, Sunday, June 9, 2019, where management has chosen to continue racing for the rest of the current meet. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
  • In this May 13, 2019, photo, Amy Kerwin stands outside the outdoor enclosures at Primates Inc., in Westfield, Wis. Kerwin started the sanctuary, which took its first monkeys in 2018. It now has five rhesus macaque monkeys that were previously used in medical research and one vervet monkey that used to be a pet. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)
  • Cows stand under a rainbow in Ruderatshofen, Germany, Wednesday, June 12, 2019. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa via AP)
  • In this photo released by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), NDRF soldiers cut branches of an uprooted tree that fell in the compound of a house from Cyclone Vayu at Diu, India, Thursday, June 13, 2019. Indian authorities are bracing for a severe cyclone strengthening in the Arabian Sea that's set to make landfall in the western state of Gujarat as India's second major storm of the season. The India Meteorological Department said Cyclone Vayu was due to hit the Gujarat coast early Thursday with wind speeds gusting up to 170 kilometers (106 miles) per hour. (NDRF via AP)
  • Indians watch as waves crash with shores on the Arabian Sea coast in Veraval, Gujarat, India, Thursday, June 13, 2019. Authorities have evacuated nearly 300,000 people from India's western coastline ahead of a very severe cyclone that's expected to make landfall as the year's second major storm. The India Meteorological Department says Cyclone Vayu, named after the Hindi word for wind, could glance the western state of Gujarat Thursday afternoon before returning to sea. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
  • In this March 15, 2019 photo, Brian Jetter poses for a portrait in La Jolla, Calif. In 2018 at 40, he was suddenly battling pneumonia and sepsis, and a slew of tests had failed to find the cause. But a high-tech genetic test was used to search his blood for bits of non-human genetic material from viruses, fungi and the like. It detected unusual bacteria that probably got into the Connecticut man's lungs when he choked and accidentally inhaled bits of a burger weeks earlier. (AP Photo/Marilynn Marchione)
  • FILE - This May 20, 2019 file photo shows marijuana plants in a grow room using green lights during their night cycle in Gardena, Calif. According to research released on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, archaeologists have unearthed the earliest direct evidence of people smoking marijuana from a 2,500-year-old graveyard in western China. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
  • FILE - In this Tuesday April 23, 2019 file photo, climate change protesters march along Whitehall toward parliament, in London. Britain's prime minister has announced plans to eliminate the country's net contribution to climate change by 2050. Theresa May said the plan will be put before Parliament Wednesday, June 12. She says the amendment to the 2008 Climate Change Act will intensify Britain's push to drastically reduce carbon emissions because "standing by is not an option." (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file)
  • FILE - In this April 17, 2018, file photo, Gabriele Grunewald poses for a portrait near Gold Medal Park in Minneapolis. Grunewald, one of the country's top middle-distance runners, has died at her home in Minneapolis after inspiring many with a long and public fight against cancer. She was 32. Her husband, Justin Grunewald, posted on Instagram about her death late Tuesday, June 11, 2019, and confirmed it Wednesday in a text to The Associated Press. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP)
  • A resident whose power has yet to be restored since Sunday's severe storm, charges his electronics at a coffee shop on Preston Road in Dallas, Tuesday, June 11, 2019. (Lynda M. Gonzalez/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
  • A tree from one property smashed a car in a neighbor's driveway when it fell during a severe thunderstorm in the area of N. Henderson and 75/Central Expressway of Dallas on Sunday, June 9, 2019. (Michael Hamtil/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
  • President Donald Trump signs an executive order to streamline the approval process for GMO crops, after speaking at Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Tuesday, June 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
  • A new study finds a warmer world may lose a billion tons of fish and other marine life by the end of the century.;
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