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Malayan Leaf Frog - Megophrys nasuta

9 Animals That Look Like Leaves

Big beaver gnawing on limb at river's edge

6 Animal Species that Mate for Life

Praying mantis (sphodromantis gastrica)

Why Do Some Animals Eat Their Mates After Sex?

animal. Amphibian. Frog. Anura. Ranidae. Frog in grass.

Abundant Animals: The Most Numerous Organisms in the World

Mosquito on human skin.

10 Deadly Animals that Fit in a Breadbox

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William Shakespeare

The Death of Shakespeare

Space race (1957-1969) infographic between United States (U.S.) and Russia. America, Soviet Union, U.S.S.R., space exploration

Timeline of the Space Race, 1957–69

Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that

America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)

Watergate scandal. Richard M. Nixon. President Nixon gives a press conference and talks to the press, March 12, 1971.

9 American Political Scandals

Computer mapping, woman at early 1990s computer

Timeline of the 1990s

green digital binary symbols

What Comes After Terabyte?

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

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Ordovician Period lamp shells fossil Tetractinella Atrypa Neospirifer Chonetes Mucrospirifer Dielasma Platystrophia Rensselaeria Tropidoleptus Leptodus

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Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)

Match the Baby Animal to Its Mama Quiz

Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters

Animal Group Names

Lion (panthera leo)

Deadliest Animals Quiz

vulture. An adult bearded vulture at a raptor recovery center. The Gypaetus barbatus also known as the Lammergeier or Lammergeyer, is a bird of prey and considered an Old World vulture.

Animal Factoids