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Jellyfish myths and misconceptions abound. Here’s how to stay safe this beach season around these gelatinous wonders.

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In the relatively few cases of domestic locales that Americans are prevented from visiting, it’s usually for their own safety. For example, there are many places where military activity makes visiting ...

A hantavirus strain that causes deadly respiratory disease in humans may be more prevalent among rodents in Pacific Northwest ...

Within the next couple of decades, the Key Largo woodrat could go extinct if the Burmese python population continues as is, a ...

Though we didn’t fully understand what we had seen, we still got the message, which was, at minimum, that the bird had a ...

"We wanted to identify how they were able to process and limit this huge absorption of calcium through the intestinal wall." ...

Florida sea turtle found dead in seaweed on beach amid historic bloom. Biomass was 19.1 million tons in March, then 28.7 ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 866-366-3723, uses a risk-based inspection reporting process for restaurants and other food handlers.

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