Images Dated 18th June 2004

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Liverpool, 26/5/89. Liverpool V Arsenal. Michael Thomas Scores the Winning Goal for Arsenal to Enable Arsenal to win the League. Credit: Colorsport/Andrew Cowie

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Breathing research

Breathing research. Medical researcher observing a woman exercising as equipment is used to monitor her breathing. This is a functional diagnostics laboratory in Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia. This laboratory was established by Kostantin Buteyko (1923-2003), the doctor who pioneered a breathing technique named after him, which is often used to treat asthma. In the 1960s, Buteyko treated over 1000 people at his laboratory and carried out much research into the physiology of breathing. The Novosibirsk Science Centre is one of the research centres that were founded in Siberia in the 1960s by the Soviet government. Photographed in 1987

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Black-headed Python

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Black-headed Python
Kalumburu Rd, Kimberleys, Western Australia
Aspidites melanocephalus
An inhabitant of drier regions of northern Australia, in seasonally arid selerophyll forests and rocky hills. Shelters in earth cracks, hollow logs, ground debris
and animal burrows. Feeds on lizards, other snakes. As they feed on reptiles they lack the heat pits of other pythons. Uses its black head in a unique way. Where other snakes need to expose their whole body to the sun, the python can leave most of its body concealed and just expose its black head to the sun. Because dark colours heat up quicker than light colours, its dark head alone can heat its whole body. On very hot days these snakes have been seen to bury their heads in sand to cool themselves. This snake is one of the traditional foods of aboriginal people of Australia.
Don Hadden
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