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What makes this discovery so remarkable, is that this species was considered extinct in South Australia. The closest known ...

Christmas movies are all about that feel-good year end spirit - here are top 10 movies for this holiday season. Best Christmas movies: As the countdown for Christmas begins, cities are decked in red, ...

Here’s the good news: There’s a whole world of modern Christmas music that exists outside of what restaurants and retail stores play ad nauseam starting Nov. 1. Now for the bad news: That world has ...

The great eared nightjar gets called a “dragon bird” because once you see it, nothing else feels like the right description. It has long feathered ears, huge dark eyes, a wide mouth and a way of ...

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Seattle is conveniently situated between the Olympic and Cascade mountain ranges. These peaks, and the foothills leading up to them, have enabled us to embark on many amazing hikes, soak in the ...

In this installment of William Broyles and Stephen Harrigan’s serialized novel, the mysterious priest’s back story is revealed, and a new member of the legion of the undead rises. Burk emerged from ...

A U.S. District judge on Aug. 12 ruled in favor of Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, finding that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service committed a “foundational error” when it declared the prairie-chicken ...

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