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Top 15 as of July 3, 2009
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Giant sea spiders, spine-crushing daggertooth fish, and pink "sea pigs" are just a sampling of exotic creatures hauled up by scientists during a recent Antarctic expedition.

March 28, 2008
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The one-acre human-made cave in the Jordan Valley, thought to have begun as a quarry, may later have been converted for other uses, including a monastery or a hideout for persecuted Christians.

June 30, 2009
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A stunningly preserved dinosaur has skin like that of modern birds and crocodiles, a paleontologist says. "This is the closest you're going to get to patting the animal."

June 30, 2009
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Aerospace engineers have re-created Hitler's "stealth" fighter to determine whether the batlike plane was truly radar resistant—and whether it could have changed history.

June 25, 2009
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Mating between a native salamander and an introduced species has created a monster—at least for animals that dwell in the ponds of California's Salinas River Valley.

June 29, 2009
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A 54-million-year-old primate followed its nose, and that might help reveal why today's primates—including humans—have comparatively big brains.

June 30, 2009
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A superbright object in a distant galaxy is "the best candidate yet" for a theoretical middleweight known as an intermediate-mass black hole, a new study says.

July 1, 2009
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A huge Burmese python in Florida may have died while eating an alligator. But a new theory says it was a battle with a second gator that made the snake explode. Updated.

October 6, 2005
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An Indian Ocean island nation has created three new ocean sanctuaries, including a tropical bay where hundreds of 12-foot manta rays and 40-foot whale sharks feast on swarms of plankton and krill.

July 1, 2009
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See a shadow slicing across Saturn's rings, a gas cloud that acts like a particle accelerator, a NASA "moving van," and more among the week's best space pictures.

June 30, 2009
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Despite falling nearly ten stories from it and losing a child in 2008, the Combatas—like the other seven families of a Bolivian village—continue using a crucial river-spanning cable. Video.

July 01, 2009
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From glass pyramids to towers of greenhouses, see some of the concepts that architects have created for vertical farms, a proposed strategy for growing crops year-round at the hearts of urban centers.

June 30, 2009
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Three times longer than today's piranha--and with more teeth to boot--eight-million-year-old <i>Megapiranha</i> solves an evolutionary mystery, a new study says.

June 26, 2009
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See the full-scale re-creation of the top secret Nazi plane that could have turned the tide of World War II—as well as the last surviving example of "Hitler's stealth fighter."

June 25, 2009
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Pictured during a steamy moment, two apparently mating African bats are each no bigger than a human thumb, scientists report.

June 29, 2009

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