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Flying foxes, or fruit bats as they are locally known, are disappearing rapidly due to misconceptions about medicinal ...

Two pairs of North Atlantic right whale mothers and calves have been spotted recently in the waters off the SC coast.

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Males engage in a two-week-long sex marathon with as many females as they can find. Each frenzied encounter can last up to 14 ...

From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world.

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Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Mira Norian / Investopedia A bank identification number (BIN) is the initial set of four to ...