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It could take a century and cost more than $24.5 million to save the Mount Graham red squirrel, according to a revised recovery plan for the endangered Southern Arizona rodent. To get the squirrel off ...

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A new study of wild bats reveals that an animal's immune system is shaped by more than its need to fight infections. Researchers from the University of Maryland have found that sex, age and ...

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In her debut work of nonfiction,‘Poking the Squid,’ Perrin Roosevelt Ireland, artist-in-residence at the New York Aquarium, ...

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