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Wild Animals Are Not Pets

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Can Buzz Aldrin Dance?

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Titanic vs. Lusitania: Who Survived and Why?

The tragic voyages provided several economists with an an opportunity to compare how people behave under extreme conditions

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A Whale of a Carbon Sink

Ardi (right) lived in a forest in Africa.  Her fossil skeleton shows that she walked upright and yet had an opposable toe, good for climbing trees.

The Human Family’s Earliest Ancestors

Studies of hominid fossils, like 4.4-million-year-old “Ardi,” are changing ideas about human origins

Scientists have been descending on the Alaska city of Barrow since 1973.  This monument made of whale bones is to lost sailors.

Anthropocene

Barrow, Alaska: Ground Zero for Climate Change

Scientists converge on the northernmost city in the United States to study global warming’s dramatic consequences

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Pollinating crickets, the longest migration, puffed up toads and more…

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