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For 30 years, developers and conservationists fought over the flowered sand banks of Castle Hill in Lake County. As ...

Brachycephalus dacnis is the seventh species of flea toad to be identified and is slightly larger than only one closely ...

In some cases, it is easy to determine what the animal is and the fossil can be studied to try to learn more about the ...

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