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The Louvre Abu Dhabi’s newest exhibition has a lesson or two to teach about flawed human behavior in a light-hearted way. On view until July 21, “From Kalila wa Dimna to La Fontaine” recounts a variety of timeless fables told through…
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The National Center for Wildlife Development, in cooperation with the Development Authority of Imam Abdulaziz bin Mohammed Royal Reserve, recently released a number of animals from endangered species into the King Khalid Royal Reserve.…
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LUBECK: The smell of sawdust and popcorn fills the air. The clowns, acrobats and magicians are all in place. As the audience are guided to their seats inside the big top, all the classic elements of the circus are there — except one. The…
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A pair of Siberian tigers pant incessantly beside a pond at their zoo enclosure in the scorching summer heat of the Iraqi capital. Temperatures on Monday breached 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in Baghdad for the second day in a row…
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Spain’s first major wildfire of the year scorched more than 4,000 hectares (9,900 acres) of forest and forced 1,500 villagers to leave their homes in the Valencia region. Residents recounted fleeing their houses and leaving animals…
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A species that lived about 520 million years ago and was thought to be the oldest known bryozoan is instead a type of colony-forming algae, a new study proposes. Bryozoans are filter-feeding, tentacle-bearing animals that live in…
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A new biomaterial delivered to the heart soon after a heart attack can heal damaged tissue from the inside out. Heart attacks kill cardiac muscle tissue, scarring the heart and leaving permanent damage after just six hours. The damage…
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Nearly 3 million years ago, hominids employed stone toolkits to butcher hippos and pound plants along what’s now the shores of Kenya’s Lake Victoria, researchers say. Evidence of those food preparation activities pushes back hominids’…
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Temperatures in Rio de Janeiro reached fifty degrees Celsius on some days recently, prompting residents to relax in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, while the city's zoo offered a "strange" option to face the heat. The city's zoo…
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On Thursday, British police arrested a woman who posted a video on Facebook of her eating a small animal. Police in the county of Lincolnshire have arrested the woman, whose name has not been released, in cooperation with the British…
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