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How Mice Adapt To Life In The Big City
Subjected to the unusual pressures of the urban landscape in New York City, the white-footed mouse has been evolving to survive, evolutionary biologist Jason Munshi-South said at this month's Secret...
View ArticleYou'll Want A Slow Loris As A Pet After You Watch This Adorable Video
Slow lorises are native to the jungles of Southeast Asia. They're related to lemurs – except much cuter. This video shows just how cute slow lorises are. (Don't get one as a pet, though, because...
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These Wild Animals Are Taking Over New York City
Walking down New York City's urban streets, the only animals we notice are the people. Sometimes we'll get a glimpse of a rat, mouse or pigeon. But the urban world around you is also teeming with...
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Hippos Take Desperate Measures To Get Through Dry Season
It's the end of the dry season in the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania, one of the largest conservation areas in the world, and rain is expected any day.The 21,100-square-mile park is dusty and...
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Trail Camera Captures Rare Photo Of Cougar Wandering Illinois
After Mark Cobb and his 12-year-old son Matthew finished an early morning deer hunting trip Sunday, he sat at the kitchen table and checked pictures from one of his two trail cameras, hoping they would...
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The World's Rarest Whale Is Seen For The First Time Ever
The spade-toothed beaked whale has not been seen 150 years. Now two of the rare animals — a mother and her calf — have been identified. The whales washed up on an New Zealand beach in 2010. Scientists...
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Hurricane Sandy Killed Tens Of Thousands Of Specially-Engineered Research...
When Superstorm Sandy ranged through the East coast last week, humans were not the only ones impacted. Floodwaters from the storm also took NYU's lab animals down with it.The facility was prepared for...
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Lunchtime For A Ravenous Lion Pride In Tanzania [PHOTOS]
Lions may be king of the Savannah, but on a recent press trip to Tanzania, most of the lions I saw were napping or lying in the shade, panting from the effort of digesting a recent meal.Then finally,...
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There's A Man-Eating Leopard On The Loose In Nepal
A leopard with an appetite for human flesh is on the loose in Nepal. The leopard is believed to have eaten 15 villagers in the past year.The latest victim was a 4-year-old boy, ABC News reported. His...
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Blind Mole Rats May Hold The Key To Preventing Cancer
Blind mole rats may hold the secret to healthy aging in their genes, and new studies are indicating these strange animals have multiple tricks up their sleeves for shutting down cancer.The strange...
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Gossipy Clownfish Know How To Talk Their Way Out Of Fights
Clownfish, the orange-, black- and white-striped fish made famous in the movie "Finding Nemo," are a gossipy bunch, popping and clicking amid their anemone homes to defend and reinforce their social...
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Canada's War Against Rats
"I have a freezer full of dead rats," says Laurie Wein, project manager at Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve in western Canada.It's a necessary evil, for the restoration specialist leading Parks...
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New Dinosaur With Massive Eye Socket Discovered
Some 95 million years ago, a two-legged dinosaur even larger than the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex skulked the deltas of North Africa looking for its next meal.The newly categorized and christened...
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18 Amazing Photos Of Baby Animals In Tanzania
In the plains of Tanzania, most animals give birth just before the rainy season starts.My visit to some of the country's national parks and game reserves last month was timed perfectly, because I saw a...
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This Crazy Looking Sea Sponge Has A Taste For Tiny Animals
You may remember the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) from such discoveries as the Yeti crab, the squid with elbows and my personal favourite, the pigbutt worm, and now they’re back...
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This Winter Could Be Really Bad For New York's Black Bears
This last year's been extremely odd for black bears in New York, culminating in many more cubs than usual, though many are skinnier than they should be."We've seen more cubs than ever before," Ed Reed,...
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Elephant-Human Clashes Are Sometimes Caused By Pachyderm Drunkenness
"Marauding pack of booze-addled elephants wreak havoc on Indian village." It's a story, or at least a headline, that's surprisingly common.A few representative samples from the news reports on the...
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China's Giant Pandas Are Running Out Of Bamboo
A new report suggests that panda bears may be running out of their staple food, bamboo.Pandas are already threatened by habitat loss and a slow breeding rate and now climate change may be diminishing...
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Tasmanian Devils Are Being Shipped To A Private Island To Save Them From...
Tasmanian devil populations will be relocated to Maria Island to save them from the deadly cancer that's killing off their main population.The contagious cancer is a facial tumor that spreads through...
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Meet Some Of The 30,000 Large Wild Animals Living In A Giant Tanzanian Crater
If you're hoping to see Africa's "big five" on safari, there's no better destination than Ngorongoro Crater in northern Tanzania.I recently had the opportunity to visit the massive caldera, formed...
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