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A National Key Deer Refuge ranger explains how to make the most of a visit to this ecologically diverse Florida island.

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Scientists Discover Colossal Beast in the Depths of the Amazon River, Say It Is the Largest Snake Species in the World A ...

While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

Spectacled Bear. Anil Öztas, FALCC-BY-NC-4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Rainforests and cloud forests across the Andes are home to the Spectacled Bear, the only bear species native to South America. Named ...

Anteater with long muzzle and big ear. Image via Depositphotos. The anteater, named for its diet of ants and termites, comprises several species across Central and South America. With elongated snouts ...

Scientists used advanced laser scans to study 1,200-year-old tattoos on mummified individuals from the pre-Columbian Chancay culture, which developed along coastal Peru between 900AD and 1533AD.

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