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Man Fills Home with Woolly Mammoth Bones He Dug from Yard

A puppy fell almost 30 feet and survived after a hawk swooped down from its perch in Los Banos, California, picked up the pooch, then dropped it a few moments later into it's new home.
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Iowa family finds prehistoric mammoth femur in their backyard

A backyard in Iowa has become an excavation site after a family went blackberry-picking behind their house two years ago and came back with a prehistoric mammoth femur.
A man identified only as John discovered the bone when one of his sons saw what he believed to be a ball while walking in the forest behind their property in 2010, according to Des Moines’ ABC5-WOI.
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Warming Arctic Tundra Producing Pop-Up Forests

In the northernmost foothills of the Polar Ural mountains on the southern Yamal Peninsula in West Siberia, Russia, tundra shrubs are turning into small trees, with big implications.
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Endangered historic places: Post offices, Ellis Island join list

Hundreds of historic U.S. post offices nationwide face uncertain futures as the U.S. Postal Service downsizes, so preservationists on Wednesday added these American institutions to the list of the country's most endangered historic places.
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