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Forty-Three Monkeys Are on the Loose in South Carolina After Escaping a Research Facility When a Door Was Left Unsecured
Unlike the mighty chimpanzee Caesar, who escapes from captivity in the Planet of the Apes trilogy, the troop on the loose consists of very young primates known as rhesus macaques—all female and each ...
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Rare ‘Terror Bird’ Fossil Found in Colombia Reveals the Enormous Size of a Prehistoric Predator
The bone, described two decades after its discovery, suggests the species might have grown up to 20 percent bigger than other ...
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These Groundbreaking Pilots Made History 30 Years Ago as the First American Women to Fly Combat Missions
Launching from the deck of the USS Eisenhower, these women showed that being a good aviator has nothing to do with gender ...
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This Parasitic Fungus Turns Flies Into Zombie Insects
The white stuff that engulfs these flies is a fungus called Entomophthora muscae — Entomophthora translates to “ destroyer of ...
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When Art Thieves Stole Four Andy Warhol Prints, They Didn’t Realize Only Two Would Fit in the Getaway Car
The robbers only made away with two of the screen prints, which they swiped from a gallery in the Netherlands. They abandoned ...
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When White Supremacists Staged the Only Successful Coup in U.S. History
The 1898 Wilmington massacre left dozens of Black North Carolinians dead. Conspirators also forced the city's multiracial ...
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To See a Spellbinding Contemporary Art Exhibition, Head to the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids
The 4,500-year-old pyramids of Giza are the backdrop for "Forever Is Now," which features sculptures, installations and ...