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Tiny Owl Opens His Eyes For The First Time Thanks To A 'Miracle'
Last month, the staff at Raven Ridge Wildlife Center (RRWC) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, received a distressing call from a ...
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Owl Stays Calm While Repeatedly 'Dive Bombed' by Birds in Meme-Worthy Video
A barred owl demonstrated the patience of a saint while being repeatedly flown into by smaller birds as it perched on a tree in New Jersey. Footage posted to Instagram by Eric Capers shows the owl ...
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Why monkeys—and humans—can’t look away from social conflict
Long-tailed macaques given short videos were glued to scenes of fighting—especially when the combatants were monkeys they ...
The Curious Animals of Amsterdam’s Art Zoo
A new museum in a 17th-century canal house brings together fantastical taxidermy and natural history objects in an eclectic ...
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Smithsonian-Led Team Discovers North America’s Oldest Known Pterosaur
The team named the new pterosaur species Eotephradactylus mcintireae. The generic name means ‘ash-winged dawn goddess’ and references the site’s volcanic ash and the animals’ position near the base of ...
North American pterosaur could sit on your shoulder
Eotephradactylus mcintireae’ is the oldest-known flying reptile from the continent and roamed the skies 209 million years ago ...
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'Ash-winged dawn goddess' is oldest pterosaur ever discovered in North America — and it was small enough to sit 'on your shoulder'
A cache of Triassic fossils in Arizona has revealed Eotephradactylus mcintireae, or "ash-winged dawn goddess," the oldest ...