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October 21, 2015

Cicadas emerge on East Coast by hundreds, billions more expected

Cicada nymphs have been starting to crawl out of the ground in droves across the East Coast, and the highly anticipated emergence of the 17-year-old insects has been ramping up in the Mid-Atlantic in recent days

October 21, 2015

Russia launches animals into space on one-month journey

An intrepid critter crew of geckos, mice and gerbils and other animals launched into orbit Friday to begin a month-long Russian experiment to study how space travel affects living creatures.

October 21, 2015

Conservations striving to keep Peter Cottontail's species off the endangered list

The New England cottontail was once so common that Massachusetts author Thornton Burgess adapted one named Peter for the children's stories he penned a century ago.

October 21, 2015

Double-headed shark fetus netted by fisherman

When a fisherman caught a bull shark recently off the Florida Keys, he came across an unlikely surprise: One of the shark's live fetuses had two heads.

October 20, 2015

Baby leopards come to San Diego zoo

Meet Riki-san and Haui-san, a cute and clumsy pair of clouded leopard cubs that made their debut this week at the San Diego Zoo.

October 20, 2015

'Odd little creature' skips sex, eats DNA

The tiny, all-female bdelloid rotifers have endured the past 80 million years without sex.

October 20, 2015

Scientists have figured out what sound a giraffe makes

What does the giraffe say?

October 20, 2015

Newly discovered wasp named after Boston Bruins goalie Rask

There's a new buzz surrounding Boston Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask.

October 20, 2015

US names red knot bird a threatened species

A rust-colored shorebird known for a nearly 20,000-mile migration will now receive federal protection, setting the stage for states to coordinate preservation plans for the dwindling species.

October 20, 2015

Thousands of Eocene shark teeth found in Canadian Arctic

The stark, barren landscape of Banks Island in Canada has yielded an unexpected find more than 8,000 shark teeth that date back millions of years, and have now been described in a study