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World’s Best Hikes: 20 Dream Trails.
This year we asked 20 outdoor luminaries—from trail runners to CEOs to beloved authors—about the trails they dream about.
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Giant ‘corpse flower’ with odor of rotting flesh blooms next door to US Capitol.
The long wait is finally over for visitors who have been yearning for a whiff of a giant flower that smells oddly like rotting flesh.
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Dolphins 'call each other by name'
Scientists have found further evidence that dolphins call each other by "name". Research has revealed that the marine mammals use a unique whistle to identify each other. A team from the University of St Andrews in Scotland found that when the animals hear their own call played back to them, they respond.
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Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought
As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s apis mellifera population that one bad winter could leave fields fallow. Now, a new study has pinpointed some of the probable causes of bee deaths and the rather scary results...
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Why you've never seen a dive site like Sipadan.
Sipadan Island, Malaysia. The waters off Sipadan Island are home to 3,000 species of fish, hundreds of species of coral, an abundance of rays and sharks and large populations of green and hawksbill turtles.
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Rare Italian-born Baby Zonkey in Good Health.
Ippo the "zonkey", a zebra-donkey hybrid was born, July 2013 at a Florence reserve in Italy.
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Nepal tiger population rises by 63%
The number of wild tigers living in Nepal has increased by 63% to 198 since 2009, a government survey has shown.
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Wolves Help Bears In Yellowstone By Controlling Berry-Eating Elks.
The wolves of Yellowstone National Park may be indirectly helping one of the forest's other big predators: the grizzly bear.
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Will the Wooly Mammoth be brought back from extinction?
Technical and ethical challenges abound after first hurdle of taking cells from millennia-old bodies is cleared. Woolly mammoth DNA may lead to a resurrection of the ancient beast.
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Caribbean has lost 80% of its coral reef cover in recent years
Comprehensive survey of the Caribbean's reefs is expected to act as a warning of problems besetting the world's coral
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Inside the Most Radioactive Place in the World - World's Most Famous Ghost Town
Photos from inside the most radioactive place in the world.
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What Sea Ice Loss Means for Wildlife.
If any single species has become the poster child for climate change, it is surely the polar bear. We all know the story: polar bears are creatures of the sea ice, and as Arctic sea ice continues its rapid decline, the future of polar bears is uncertain, with one study projecting that two-thirds of the global population could be extirpated by the middle of the twenty-first century.
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Waking Up Tired? Blame Electricity
Our internal clocks are drifting out of sync, and indoor lighting may be to blame. A new study suggests that just a few days in the great outdoors puts us back in tune with the solar cycle, and reconnecting with the sun could make us less drowsy.
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These Are the Most Exquisitely Weird Spiders You Will Ever See
Spiders are among the craftiest and most beautiful of arthropods, entirely undeserving of their maligned reputation.
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How to Take Stunning Lion Photos
Nick Nichols used infrared photography, micro-drones, a robot, and a "lion car" in the Serengeti.
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Lunchtime
An Indian parrot hatchling is fed by hand in Dimapur, India, on July 24. The bird is one of hundreds taken from the wild by local hunters and smuggled for profit, despite a ban on trade of all bird species in India. Wildlife of all types is frequently hunted either for consumption or for sale to residents. The bulk of the trade is in three- to four-week-old chicks.
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The Giant Turtle That Really Sucked
Turtles are an underappreciated group of tetrapods. Despite a brief flirtation with popular culture in the late eighties and early nineties (although no known species actually eats pizza and wields...
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Rise Of The Carnivores Explained In New Study
Without oxygen, there would be no carnivores. Without carnivores, there would be no Cambrian explosion, the stunning evolutionary burst of diversity in species and body forms that began 540 million years ago. Those are the findings of a new study that stitches together competing models for why meat-eating appeared simultaneously with the Cambrian explosion.
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SeaWorld vs. the Whale That Killed Its Trainer.
There have been dozens of attacks on trainers by orcas in marine parks around the world. These are not bad whales; they just come with all the instincts of predators.
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Sparring Foxes
Fox kits spar along the Ugashik River in the Alaska Peninsula. This area, in the southeastern part of the 49th state, is home to waterways, volcanoes, and a variety of wildlife
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