The unending quest for oil has now led drillers to vast reserves lying more than a mile beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico
The Australian pact with the world's largest crocodiles seems to be workingbut critics say that the costs are fatally high
In a remote corner of eastern China, travelers tread the path of the ancient sage
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Communities worried about the ravages of wildfires are embracing a four-legged solution
From a computer-generated model, sculptors cast a bronze triceratops that Looks like the real thing
The exquisite telescopes crafted by Alvan Clark and his sons helped make the last half of the 19th century a golden age of astronomy
An American couple's ingenious research challenges the popular notion that baboons and other monkeys are almost human
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Wayne Sentman on the extremely endangered Hawaiian monk seal
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More than 400,000 albatross pairs nest on Midway Atoll, which is now the site of an extraordinary National Wildlife Refuge
Famed for their "floating-on-air" gaits, Arabian horses run in 100-mile races and ask for more
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Popular "snore and roar" sleepovers give visitors an up close nighttime adventure with animals
Their habitat is disappearing fast, but San Joaquin kit foxes are finding ways to survive
Once we didn't know how aspirin works; now we know that it does a lot more than ease pain and inflammation
Robots that feed themselves could become self-propelled farm machinesor military snipers
By studying objects cast up on our shores, researcher Curtis Ebbesmeyer traces the flow of ocean currents
The Bushmen of Namibia are so good at reading the language of footprints they can tell what a leopard did the day before they started pursuing it
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