Flying foxes are the biggest bats in the world; they look like German shepherd puppies with 5-foot (1. 5-meter) wingspans. But Madagascar's flying foxes are shrinking.
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Rare, complete fossils of ancient fish discovered in Alberta are helping fill in the gaps in our knowledge about which freshwater fish were living in North America at the end of the age of the dinosaurs, and how they evolved into their modern descendants.
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The Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) keeps its eye on the cosmos decades after being decommissioned.
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