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The colorful creatures can measure up to three feet long from head to tail and weigh in at around four pounds
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It's likely the planetesimal orbiting a white dwarf 410 light years away was the core of a minor planet caught in its immense gravity
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Offerings include a book of poetry featuring the epic <em>Shahnameh</em> and a biography of Shah Jahan, the emperor who built the Taj Mahal
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166 institutions are participating in the 10th-annual event, which encourages visitors to spend 5 to 10 minutes in front of a single work of art
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Sanna invented Swiss Miss, the first instant hot chocolate mix that could be made with hot water instead of milk
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Redoshi was 12 when she was kidnapped and sold to the crew of the <i>Clotilda</i>
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The last time Earth had this much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, trees were growing at the South Pole
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The gig pays around $18,500, but this is no dream job
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Komodo National Park may put the island off limits to restore degraded habitat and help its iconic giant lizards and their prey recover
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More than three times the usual number of migrating pink birds came, possibly attracted by algae blooms caused by sewage
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The free stories come in one, three or five-minute reads
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The duck-billed, crested lambeosaurine shows that a diverse array of dinos lived in the warmer but still harsh Arctic 70 million years ago
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The new discoveries belong to a collection known as the ‘Govan Stones,’ imposing relics of a once-great kingdom
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Hitting the High Notes: A Smithsonian Year of Music
The show includes more than 130 guitars, drum kits and keyboards, as well as vintage costumes, posters and concert footage
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The town of Brande (population: 7,000) is headquarters of clothing brand Bestseller, which wants to construct the 1,049-foot spire
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Among the refuse found in her digestive tract were garbage bags, fishing nets and a bag of liquid detergent
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The apex predators likely absorb these toxins by eating fish lower down on the food chain
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Similar snack counters dug up throughout Pompeii were once destinations for on-the-go Romans looking for a quick bite
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An estimated 66 tons of feces left behind by climbers is coming out of the deep freeze on North America's highest peak
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The facility is located at Finca Vigía, the property where Hemingway lived for more than two decades and where he wrote some of his most lauded books
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