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Black in Marine Science

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Black History Month, WCS and Nature are sharing five stories of nature and conservation. In 2017, I became one of the first Black Wild Animal ...

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Good NATURE: American Horses

After each NATURE premiere, we gather online videos we love into a playlist and round up resources for parents and teachers. From our newest film to incredible footage from around the web, here were our favorites. And ...

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Olympians and Plastic Squid

As the world’s elite athletes descend on Beijing for this winter’s Olympic and Paralympic Games, many of them are doing so literally. Mountain training centers from the Rockies to the Alps to the Pyrenees offer competitors ...

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Elephant Seal Fact Sheet

  Elephant seals: large, aquatic earless seals. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Mammalia Order: | Carnivora Clade: | Pinnipedia Family: | Phocidae Genus: | Mirounga There are two species of elephant ...

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Black Bear Fact Sheet

Black bear: a medium-sized bear endemic to North America. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Mammalia Order: | Carnivora Family: | Ursidae Genus: | Ursus Species: | americanus The black bear is the most ...

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Beaver Fact Sheet

Beaver: a large, semiaquatic rodent. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Mammalia Order: | Rodentia Family: | Castoridae Genus: | Castor There are two extant species: the North American beaver (Castor canadensis) ...

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