Besides creating beautiful white landscapes and having fun building snowmen, snow also plays an important role in our environment. For example, snow cover helps regulate Earth’s surface temperature.
The eastern hellbender, a giant salamander also known as a snot otter, evolved on the supercontinent Pangaea and outlived the dinosaurs.
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Once thought to be wiped out in Missouri, black bears are seeing a renaissance in the state. The Post-Dispatch caught up with ...
The animal kingdom has so many stranger-than-fiction animals. From a glowing green sea slug to a lizard with a toad's head, ...
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Life on Earth is amazingly adaptable and includes some animals that survive even in the harshest conditions. Stacker takes a ...
"Being a beluga whale training intern at Georgia Aquarium entails a lot of teaching the animals to participate in their own ...
When hibernating, a bear’s body temperature remains above 31°C. In contrast to body temperature, their respiratory rate averages only one breath per minute with a heart rate of 8-10 beats per ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The capybara – a South American relative of the guinea pig -- is the latest in a long line of “it ...