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For fifty years scientists have thought they existed, and now they finally have proof
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Researchers are still not sure why the fungus, usually content to live on dead animals, is now infecting living snakes
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Luckily, she also came with an instruction manual
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Study suggests our common ancestor had humanlike hands
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New study shows that worm their way into slug guts and feces to travel long distances
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The recovery of black-footed ferrets is threatened by plague
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Bottling water divorces people from caring about keeping public water supply clean
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Architects envision a rippling structure that takes a page from the singer’s famous look
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It might be full of microbes and carbon dioxide, but a leftover glass of water is still (probably) safe to drink
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How long ago did English speakers start linking chickens with fearfulness?
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Researchers are working to make a shrub found in southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico a viable natural rubber alternative
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The secret is on your stomach
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The park is always changing, but this time nobody realized it
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Controversy still surrounds the release of <i>Go Set a Watchman</i>
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New Horizons carries an instrument named for Venetia Burney, the 11-year-old girl who named Pluto
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The original fan gathering only attracted 145 people
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A few throw pillows and a touch of new paint? No way.
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But so far it still won’t be considered a "planet"
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A mysterious set of deaths seem to be linked to the rodents
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