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World’s smallest orchid discovered in Ecuador

Americans throw away enough food every year to feed 200 million adults

Land of plenty: 50 percent rise in the amount of food wasted in America worsens global warming, consumes freshwater

Videos and Photos: over 17,000 species discovered in waters beyond the sun’s reach

After years of controversy: Flores ‘hobbits’ are a new species of humans

Using fish as livestock feed threatens global fisheries

Pygmy hippo shot and killed in…Australia

Extinct goat was “similar to crocodiles”

Forgotten species: Madagascar’s water-loving mammal, the aquatic tenrec

Tsavo lions ate 35 people, not 135

Scientists discover that bats practice oral sex

World’s largest golden orb weaving spider discovered in South Africa and Madagascar

Plants recognize that family comes first

Plants recognize that family comes first

New species of glowing mushrooms named after Mozart’s Requiem

New species of ghostshark discovered off California’s coast

Hummer owners view themselves as morally upright

Employing dogs to save endangered species and places, an interview with Megan Parker

Photo: Mystery ‘alien-beast’ in Panama is likely a sloth

Photos: new gecko discovered on bizarre and beautiful Socotra island

Hunger drives great tits to kill and eat bats as they hibernate

Elephants on the rampage in India: 500 homes destroyed, seven people dead

New species everywhere in Papua New Guinea’s ‘lost’ volcano

Last chance to save a ‘singular beauty’ of Asia: the shy soala

Three new species discovered in mile-long underwater cave

Destructive farming practices of early civilization may have altered climate long before industrial era

Snails learn from fear

Start your engines with watermelon juice

Hardly indestructible, plastics begin decomposing in ocean within a year, spreading harmful chemicals

Newly discovered deep sea worms throw bioluminescent ‘bombs’

Biofuel company eyes dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico for creating fish-powered fuel

New carnivorous plant big enough to swallow a rat

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