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A witness recorded what prosecutors say was a video of Igor Lytvynchuk throwing the rock at a Hawaiian monk seal at a Maui ...

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Mustafa Mohsen Al Asfoor, manager of Al Qura Butchery in Sitra and a professional with nearly 25 years of experience in the ...

A young bird at the Birmingham Zoo is eating, flying and socializing normally again after receiving a custom-made prosthetic ...

Scientists just identified a brand-new species of octopus in the Galápagos. It's blue, tiny and absolutely adorable. (Charles ...

The octopus, named Microeledone galapagensis, is about the size of a golf ball and could easily fit in the palm of your hand.

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Meiofauna are microscopic invertebrates that live between grains of sand, and it was thought that filaments on a fossil half ...