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A new twist on an old mystery may finally settle the debate over the origin of Mima mounds, which bulge out of the ground like enormous, grass-covered bubble wrap.

From the air, Mima mounds look like upside-down egg cartons or grass-covered bubble wrap. A new study suggests burrowing gophers build the mysterious mounds.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will study a remote Hawaiian beach to see if it qualifies for listing as a Supferfund site, a type of hazardous waste site.

Researchers have found a new ligament in the human knee, the existence of which had been postulated in 1879 but never shown, until now.

About 700 people have visited a hospital in southern Albania since June complaining of various symptoms derived from cultivating and processing cannabis.

An entomologist got a surprise when he returned from doing field work in Uganda: He had a tick up his nose. He got the tick's genome sequenced, and the animal may be a new species.

A cane toad has been photographed with a bat in its mouth in the coastal forests of Peru, perhaps the first time that this has been photographically documented.

Believe it or not, goldfish can tell the difference between the music of J.S. Bach and Igor Stravinsky, although they don't seem to have a preference for one composer over the other.

To see what rainbow trout eat, you must catch one and open it up. Researchers doing just that got a surprise recently when they found that a small trout had eaten nearly 20 shrews.

The British government is in the process of killing 5,000 wild badgers, saying that such a move is necessary to prevent the spread of tuberculosis from badgers to cattle.