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Two eight legged beasties and one helluva hopper have hit the headlines recently in the British media.

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The world’s smallest true monkey and probably the world’s cutest.

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As this immense project nears its completion, take a look at some wonderful photos taken both onsite, around, above and below the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge. It cannot be said that the golden age of engineering is over when we can still produce projects like this.

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During recent years, it has come to the attention of biologists and zoologists that virtually every creature in the animal kingdom, known to have sex, has also displayed homosexual behaviour or engaged in homosexual activity.

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Of the 21 orders of the Mammalia class, one order is so classified for the reproductive nature of its species to lay eggs rather than live births. This is the order Monotremata.

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Learn some facts about this exotic plant that drowns its victims.

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The People over at iRobot Have Come Up With a Most Interesting Concept for a New Type of Robot that was Designed with the Ability to Fit In Almost Any Space. The New Blob Robot uses Chemical Reactions within Multiple Cellular Chambers Called Jamming to Change its Shape an Size for a Desired Effect.

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Ranging from four to fourteen meters long, whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the largest members of the cartilaginous fishes (Class Chondrichthynes), making them the world’s largest sharks and fish. Yes, the whale shark is a fish, not a whale as what its name implies. Its closest relatives are the rays and other species of sharks.

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My dad will turn 76 years old this week (the 16th of this month, today) so I gave him a phone call this morning to wish him Happy Birthday. We caught up on things, local happenings, weather, family, etc. It got me to remembering a funny incident that occurred between us some twenty-plus years ago.

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A recent article in the journal "Nature Neuroscience" tells of an exciting new development in brain development that could eventually lead to treatments for degenerative diseases like Multiple sclerosis.