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Among the smallest owl species in North America, the saw-whet is the size of a smartphone topped with a pingpong ball. With a ...

It sounds a bit like a finger running over a fine-tooth comb, but it’s about as loud as a lawn mower. It’s hard to spot — at only 2.5 centimetres long — but when the chorus frog emerges in early ...

Truong Minh Quy’s haunting romance between two Vietnamese coal miners contemplates war and loss with pained elegance. By Lisa Kennedy Louise Courvoisier’s debut feature follows a teenager in ...

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In doing so I would take a detour through my nearby deer woods in search of some unburied treasure, namely shed antlers. Despite just over an hour of patiently walking while carefully scanning the ...

A South Florida Water Management District python removing contractor leads a team of python-hunting veterans in the Florida ...

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Funding is desperately needed to feed a wave of refugees fleeing the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to Burundi, the World Food Programme said. The United Nations ...

Using rodent bait and insecticides may help control mice, gophers, and mosquitos, but using them can have consequences for ...

Mar. 19, 2025 — To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only ...