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Most people know red and black spotted ladybird beetles as friendly insects that are fun to pick up and watch fly away. ...
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If you ever find a pseudoscorpion in your bathtub, don't worry! These tiny arachnids are harmless to humans.

Find out about Taiwan's fascinating fluttering insects.
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Based on fossils of ancient dragonflies, we know these winged insects have been soaring around for at least 300 million ...
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Scientists figured out a way to take genes from one species and stick them inside the DNA of another species. When a pla...
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Many artifacts at the American Museum of Natural History will spend time in the Conservation Lab, the Museum's hospital ...
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This living dinosaur is also known by its common name, the Martineta tinamou. 
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Unlike modern reptiles, pterosaurs weren't covered in scales. They were covered in fuzz! Pterosaurs kept warm with a thi...
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A rotting log is a mighty tasty meal -- if you're a termite. Termites not only eat wood, some kinds live in it, too. Ter...
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This treehopper looks more like an ant than the flying insect it is. Its costume, called a "helmet," grows out of its up...

Find out about Taiwan's fascinating fluttering insects.
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It only seems like the world's entire ant population attends your picnics.
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You might think that all mosquitoes are alike, but did you know that there are actually about 2,500 different kinds? All...
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Not all spiders spin webs to catch their meals. When night falls in Australia, the white-tailed spider hunts its prey on...
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The Dzanga-Sangha rain forest is alive with the sounds of snakes, chimpanzees, birds, insects, and many exotic creatures...
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Have you ever caught a firefly on a warm summer night? Chances are it was a common eastern firefly (Photinus pyralis). L...
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Tipping the scales at more than 7 pounds, the Goliath is the largest frog in the world. Just two of these frogs weigh as...
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If you looked at the contents of a vacuum cleaner bag with a microscope, you'd probably find millions of tiny creatures ...
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These tropical freshwater fishes come in so many colors, shapes, and sizes, it's nearly impossible to sum up the family ...
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Today, there are mythic creatures that some people believed to be real, like the Loch Ness monster of Scotland and the A...
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Vietnam is a country of amazing biodiversity, including many rare and unusual species. One fascinating example is the py...
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Some people may call invertebrates spineless because they lack a backbone or spine! But these amazing creatures are the ...
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Scientists have identified over 1.75 million species on Earth -- over one million of them are insects and spiders.
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Long before dinosaurs, these strange roach-like creatures scurried along the ancient sea floor.
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Many mammals run and walk. Some hop, swim, and even glide from trees.
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Compared to the continent of Africa, Madagascar may seem small. But this island, the fourth largest in the world, is big...
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A firefly's light seems rare and magical. Yet there are many living things that blink, glow, flash, and glitter. The dee...
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The hellbender is one of the largest salamanders in North America.
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The first vertebrates to fly took to the skies about 215 million years ago. These creatures were neither birds nor bats....
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The snowy egret is a beautiful sight. An adult egret is distinguished by its dark slender beak, long black legs, and yel...
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Most mammals that live on land use their legs to get around. But the white-handed gibbon relies mostly on its arms. Usin...
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Scientists often need to examine things that are too small to be seen by the human eye, like bacteria or the tiny cells ...
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If you watched an American black bear lumbering through the forest, you might not notice anything unusual about how it m...
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This rare lizard lived in the Gobi Desert about 80 million years ago. 
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The gremlin-like, endangered aye-aye makes its home in the tropical forests of Madagascar, a large island off the coast ...
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Most amphibians start their lives in water, and grow up to live on land. But axolotls live their whole lives in water. T...
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Many famous dinosaurs, such as T. rex and Triceratops, first appeared in the Cretaceous Period.
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New Caledonia, a tiny island east of Australia, is the only place where an unusual bird called the kagu is found. About ...
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Flashback to 80 million years ago in the Gobi Desert. Deltatheridium scurried among dinosaurs.
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In the forests of Central and South America grows the vibrant passionflower with deep red flowers and juicy yellow fruit...
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Over 80 kinds of poison frogs live in the tropical forests of Central and South America.
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Located off the coast of Georgia, St. Catherines is an island with white sandy beaches, a variety of wildlife, and dense...
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When Martha Hurley first took science as a kid, she thought it was boring. She'd rather be outside exploring nature. The...
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Since he was a boy, Vladimir Ovtsharenko has been fascinated by nature. Growing up, he loved collecting spiders, beetles...
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Paleontologists uncovered this just-hatched Protoceratops in 1997 at Ukhaa Tolgod.
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The whooping crane is known as the tallest bird in North America. This long legged creature has been struggling to survi...
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Fossils are the key to understanding life in the past.
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You hear a buzz, and swat at a mosquito.
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About 100 million years ago, a flying reptile called Pterodaustro guinazui soared above the coast of what is now Argenti...
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Chris Raxworthy has been fascinated by all things scaly and slimy since he was a kid. Chris is a herpetologist at the Am...
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Bubbling hot springs. Antarctic ice. Deep ocean trenches. The Himalayan peaks. Few organisms can live in any of these pl...
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Until 1828, pterosaur fossils had been found only in Germany. Then a new kind of pterosaur fossil was discovered in Engl...
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When he was 8 years old, Theodore Roosevelt found a seal skull. It would be the first specimen in his very own natural h...
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More than four thousand islands—including one big island—make up this nation in the Caribbean Sea.