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For Some Mammals, Large Adult Daughters, Not Sons, Are the Norm

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Female elephant seals are not delicate creatures. They are rippling tubes of muscle and blubber that can weigh more than 1,000 pounds. Still,...
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Subterranean ‘Baby Dragons’ Are Revealed to Sneak to the Surface

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Scientists have discovered that blind cave salamanders in northern Italy leave their underground homes to go on expeditions to the surface.Eyeless and ghostly...
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What Deathbed Visions Teach Us About Living

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The talk received millions of views and thousands of comments, many from nurses grateful that someone in the medical field validated what they...
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When Cicadas Emerge, Things Might Get a Little Wet

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This spring, when the ground temperature hits 64 degrees Fahrenheit, trillions of cicadas will dig their way up from beneath the soil across...
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Surprise: An ‘Extraterrestrial’ Gadget Was Something More Familiar

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In January of 2014, a meteor fell from space off the coast of Papua New Guinea. That might have been the end of...
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With an Orange-Tufted Spiderhunter, Birder Breaks Record for Sightings

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On Feb. 9, Peter Kaestner stood in the shadow of majestic Tinuy-an Falls on the Philippine island of Mindanao, on the cusp of...
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Overdose or Poisoning? A New Debate Over What to Call a Drug Death.

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The death certificate for Ryan Bagwell, a 19-year-old from Mission, Texas, states that he died from a fentanyl overdose.His mother, Sandra Bagwell, says...
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A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive

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In 1889, a French doctor named Francois-Gilbert Viault climbed down from a mountain in the Andes, drew blood from his arm and inspected...
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Microplastics Are a Big Problem, a New Film Warns

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It’s been more than five decades since Dustin Hoffman’s character in “The Graduate” was offered a kernel of wisdom about the path to...
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These May Be the Oldest Olive Trees in the World

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Olive trees are common in Northern Lebanon, but in the village of Bshaaleh, a handful look downright ancient. Their branches grow in wildly...
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