'Big Brutus,' World's Largest Electric Shovel, Turned Into Museum LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: You never know what roadside attraction you might find along America's byways. Our colleague Melissa Block is on a reporting road trip around the country,

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This is the Virginia opossum, a tree dweller found throughout many of the southern states. It's the only North American marsupial. The young are born premature and matured in the mother's pouch. And its only close relatives today are found in Central

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Like a science fiction time traveler, an arctic plant of the late Pleistocene age, over thirty one thousand years old, is growing again after a long frozen sleep. 犹如科幻小说里的时间旅行者,一种曾存活在更新世晚期的极地植物

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 29 June 2007 India says it is close to finalizing a deal to transport natural gas from Iran to India via Pakistan. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, officials from the three countries have held talks in the India

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One could imagine that the conflict between Tyrannosaurs and Triceratops may have been one of the greatest combats that nature has ever had. And this well-protected herbivore is everywhere. In fact in the Late Cretaceous, Triceratops outnumbered Tyra

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It's a digestive process more like those of carnivores. And Sauroposeidon has another trick for growing to mammoth proportions--hollow bones. Its backbone, neck, and ribs have walls just a few milometers thick. Even its limbs are far less dense than

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I mean, these guys were, frankly dumb as a fence post. Sauroposeidon does almost everything by instinct, including rearing or more accurately not rearing its children. It may seem cruel to just dig a hole and leave your eggs and wander on, but its a

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These Olympic capabilities come down to one simple anatomical feature, its tail. Half the length of its body, it acts like a built-in counterbalance. By flicking it from side to side, it can make a sharp turn at full speed. If you were to look at Dei

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By David McAlary Washington 10 May 2006 There is new evidence in the case of the missing woolly mammoth. In fact, several species of large mammals in addition to the mammoth went missing at the end of

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