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A flying robot the size of a postage stamp can hover for up to 15 minutes without breaking, and it can perform acrobatic manoeuvres ...

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In flooded agricultural fields near the Tennessee River, tens of thousands of sandhill cranes stand tall among broken corn ...

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The cranes, with their distinctive red foreheads and gray feathers, fly to Alabama from ... dancing on their slender legs, flapping their wings and sticking their long beaks in the air to vocalize ...

Here are some of the mot common bug, insect and spider bites you might be dealing with — and insect bite pictures to help you figure out what type of creature is responsible. Ticks are so small and ...

Up to an inch and a half long, the hornet is equipped with powerful mandibles capable of shearing smaller insects to pieces ... They raise their front legs and open their mandibles.