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The platypus sports fur like a mammal, paddles its duck feet like a bird and lays eggs in the manner of a reptile.
Nature’s instruction manual for this oddball, it turns out, is just as much of a mishmash.
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Britain’s Ministry of Defense says a Taliban leader has surrendered to Pakistani authorities and another leading insurgent has been killed by British forces.
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Federal officials probing the deaths of 71 wild horses on a military site ruled out high levels of nitrate in a pond, saying such rates occurred naturally.
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Federal officials probing the deaths of 71 wild horses on a military site ruled out high levels of nitrate in a pond, saying such rates occurred naturally.
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Dr. Anna Pou wasn’t worried as she made her way to Memorial Medical Center that sultry August weekend in 2005.
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Police say two competitors died of hypothermia and lack of oxygen during an endurance race up Germany’s highest mountain. Six other people were hospitalized.
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Two people were found dead Saturday at a music festival in southern Norway and six others were hospitalized, police said.
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