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Sucker-Footed Bat Hangs Upright Via Sweat, Not Suction

Despite its name, the sucker-footed bat of Madagascar actually uses "modified sweat" to cling to slick leaves, a new study says.
Where Are All the Migratory Birds Going?

The bobolink, a North American relative of blackbirds, finds its wintering grounds in South America by reading the sun and stars, Earth's landscape and magnetic fields, and polarized light humans can't even see.
Prehistoric Pygmy Sea Cow Discovered in Madagascar

The fossil "water bushpig"—as the locals call it—fills in a gap between primitive land-dwelling mammals to today's aquatic sea cows, a new study says.
Ice Baby

A near-perfect frozen mammoth resurfaces after 40,000 years, bearing clues to a great vanished species.

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Monster Fish

Join Hogan on his quest to find and study the worlds largest freshwater fish in Thailand waters. He'll travel the country in search of 600-pound Siamese carp, 10-foot-long Mekong giant catfish and the endangered giant freshwater stingray, among others.

David de Rothschild's boat made of plastic bottles has almost reached it's final destination!

Plastiki Arrives in Sydney

David de Rothschild and crew have arrived in Sydney, Australia, ending the 130-day, 8,000-nautical-mile journey across the Pacific in a boat made of post-consumer plastic bottles.
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