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Scientists and most people fear that many of our natural resources will soon be gone from our world. They say that the future seems gloomy and uncertain, but scientists have found a way to possibly make  more natural resources. Scientists have noticed that plants do a lot of work for our planet, and they are behind [...]

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Right whales have been washing up on the shores of Argentina’s Patagonian coast.  308 whales have died since 2005.  About 88 percent of the deaths were of calves less than three months old.  The dead calves had an unusually thin layer of blubber.  Associate director of WCS’s Global Health Program, Dr. Marcela Uhart, first dicovered the [...]

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Many people know about parasites, “They are small and eat off of other animals right?” Wrong. Many parasites live on humans and they don’t even know it. Dust mites live on us eating our dead skin cells, no harm done. But on the contrary, not all parasites are helpful.  There you are hanging on to a [...]

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Two new dinosaurs were discovered in Utah.  The Utahceratops gettyi has five horns and  is the largest of the two.  It is three to four tons in weight; it is about seven feet long and six feet high. Kosmoceratops is about 2.5  tons it has 10 horns and is about fifteen feet long. This is a great discovery [...]

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In the deep sea, there are a lot of planets, which are weird-looking, and of course brilliantly colorful. Coral reefs are often hailed as one of the greatest of the ocean’s wonders. There are so much amazing underwater life, almost unbelievably reefs only take up less than one per cent of the Earth’s surface. I [...]

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In Southeast Asia a new species of frog, Microhyla nepenthicola, has been recently discovered in the forests of Borneo. These tiny amphibians are the size of a pea, ranging from 10.6 and 12.8 mm. Because they were so tiny, these frogs are very difficult to find. They are tracked by their call, which they sing at [...]

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The Amazon rain forest is home to a new species of catfish. The newly discovered armored, wood-eating catfish can be found in the Santa Ana River in Peru.  This species actually ingests wood. Normally the sucker-mouth catfish uses its unique teeth to clean off the surfaces of  submerged wood. Biologist are researching the digestion of these [...]

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The Omaniundu reed frog has been missing since 1979.  Conservationists set out to see how many amphibians thought to be extinct are actually still alive.  These expeditions are  being done to try and figure out why the amphibians are missing.  It is believed that our human footprints are causing the amphibians to be pushed backed.  They [...]

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