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But in the powerful novella THE CANNIBAL OWL (Belle Point Press, 66 pp., paperback, $15.95), it becomes a personal totem for Levi English, an 11-year-old boy who runs away from a frontier ...

HURON COUNTY, MI – Julie Maggert had never seen anything like it. It was a snowy owl with a bright orange pattern on what should have been white feathers with dark bars. The amateur wildlife ...

Duo the Owl, Duolingo's make-believe mascot, is alive. The language-learning app announced on Monday that the mascot had faked his death. Duolingo announced two weeks ago that the mascot was ...

Fritton Owl Sanctuary has seen income from visitors, fetes and school visits drop due to restrictions enforced by the growing risk of avian flu Restrictions imposed due to avian flu are risking ...

The owl mascot for Pittsburgh-based Duolingo is not dead after all, according to social media posts by the organization. At least two posts appeared on the company's social media accounts on ...

Nearly two weeks after Duolingo announced that their mascot Duo—formally known as The Duolingo Owl—had “died,” the language learning app’s nocturnal bird made a surprise return.

A horror virus spread by midges wiped out 92 newborn lambs on an Ayrshire farm, it’s emerged. Dundonald farmer Michael Goldie saw nearly two-thirds of his 152 lambs killed last month by the ...

From the earliest spellings (e.g. Muggehala 1182) toponymists believe Monkhall originally meant 'nook infested by midges' from the Old English mycg/midge and halh/nook. That suggests that it was ...

The real estate market has rebounded at the start of the year after a slight dip in the latter half of 2024. There has been a notable increase in the number of people in their twenties in Iceland in ...