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The injured eagle still requires 24-hour monitoring.
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The honeycomb-shaped geometric formations surround an 20-foot-tall butte.
40-foot-long Kronosaurus ate a 23-foot-long marine reptile who ate a pterosaur, fossil shows
Amateur fossil hunters helped discover evidence of a Cretaceous Era food chain in the Australian Outback.
Rare twin lemurs born at New York’s Central Park Zoo
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Nursing babies spit backwash into the breast—and that’s a good thing
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Mother brown bear kills cub on Katmai Bear Cam
A mother bear known as Bear 806 attacked the spring cub near Alaska’s Brooks River.
Human newborns have been helpless for 1 million years
Weak necks, soft spots, and underdeveloped brains make our babies much less independent than other great apes.
Strait of Hormuz ship bottleneck could fuel invasive species nightmare
Hundreds of ships currently sitting in the Strait have untold organisms in their hulls.
Breakthrough process 3D prints contact lenses in 20 minutes
The new method could create soft contacts for those with irregular cornea shapes, without several trips to the eye doctor.
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