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Google Search has a secret feature that shouts animal noises at you

Ever wondered what noise a cow makes? Or a sheep? Or an elephant?No, of course you haven't because you're a normal adult with some grasp of reality. You know what noise a sheep makes.But let's assume...

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This park in Thailand is turning elephant poop into paper

Most paper is made from fiber that comes from trees. At Elephant POOPOOPAPER Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand, workers repurpose fiber-rich elephant dung to create colorful paper that's also...

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Everyone is terrified of sharks, but this is actually the deadliest creature...

A summer season of shark attacks has left many beaches around the world empty, but the likelihood that the average person will die from a shark attack is relatively low. In fact, sharks don't even...

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An elephant who carried tourists in Cambodia for years died of exhaustion

Animal activists are calling for an investigation after an elephant made to carry tourists to a Cambodian temple died from a sudden heart attack while ferrying two people. The elephant had been working...

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Arnold Schwarzenegger had a very close encounter with an elephant, then used...

Yes, even the Terminator can be outmatched.While on safari in South Africa, actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had a close encounter with a huge elephant. Luckily, he captured...

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This baby elephant just got the species' first prosthetic leg

Mosha, the Asian elephant, received the first prosthetic limb made especially for her species.Another reason to love technology is that it can be used to help animals that have missing limbs become...

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Blimps, elephants, and 7 other ridiculously expensive US military programs

At some point their a military careers, all servicemembers have said: “I can’t believe we’re paying for this.”From 1975 to 1984, a division of government contractor Litton Industries and two of its...

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Africa's elephants are rapidly declining as poaching thrives

HONOLULU (AP) — The number of savanna elephants in Africa is rapidly declining and the animals are in danger of being wiped out as international and domestic ivory trades drive poaching across the...

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Elephants can detect how dangerous people are by the sounds of their voices

When we talk about smart animals, we tend to give credit to a few creatures: chatty dolphins, long-remembering elephants, tool-using apes, and puzzle-solving crows, to name a few.But do we really...

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The origins of the political party logos

The animal logos most commonly used as symbols of the US political parties, originated as 19th century symbols of ridicule.Follow BI Video: On TwitterJoin the conversation about this story »

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Elephant poaching costs economies $25 million a year — and the threat of...

More than 10 million elephants roamed the forests and savannas of Africa at the beginning of the 20th century. There are now fewer than 500,000 in the wild. The total remaining population of African...

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Watch this amputee, baby elephant learn how to walk again — in water

Meet Fah Jam, a five-month-old Thai Elephant who is learning to swim as if her life depends on it. Because it just might be the only way she'll learn to walk again.Follow Tech Insider: On FacebookJoin...

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Some of the scientists aiming to 'bring back' the woolly mammoth originally...

Picture this: A beast with most of the features of a woolly mammoth (think long, shaggy hair, plus special adaptations to sub-zero temperatures, like subcutaneous fat and specially-adapted blood) plus...

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Harvard researchers say they can bring the Woolly Mammoth back from extinction

A team of researchers claim that, with help from gene editing methods like CRISPR, they could conceivably be capable of cloning a Woolly Mammoth back from extinction in two years or less. While...

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The price of ivory has plummeted in a 'hopeful moment for the future of...

Nairobi (AFP) - The price of ivory has fallen by nearly two-thirds in the last three years, according to research conducted in China and published on Wednesday by the conservation group Save the...

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Everyone is terrified of sharks, but this is actually the deadliest creature...

A summer season of shark attacks has left many beaches around the world empty, but the likelihood that the average person will die from a shark attack is relatively low. In fact, sharks don't even...

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A trophy hunter was trampled to death by the elephant he was hunting

A big game hunter has been trampled to death by an elephant he was trying to shoot in Namibia.Trophy hunter Jose Monzalvez, 46, was killed while on the hunting tour in a small town 43 miles outside of...

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A prize-winning image shows a mob setting an elephant mother and calf on fire

The winners of the prestigious Sanctuary Asia magazine photo contest award have been announced.Many of the images portray the complicated and often dark relationship between humans and nature.This...

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The Trump administration plans to allow trophies of elephants hunted in...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service plans to allow for the importing of trophies from elephants killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia back to the US. The Obama administration banned the practice in 2014 after...

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I visited a baby elephant orphanage in Kenya — here's what it was like

I recently took a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, where I visited the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.The project started in 1977 as a way to rescue orphaned elephants and rhinos.More than 200 elephants have...

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