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A new robot yelps when dental students drill too close to sensors that have been fitted where nerve endings would be.

November 29, 2007
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A seven-year-old Cambodian boy and his python pal like to eat duck and chicken. Only the 15-plus-foot python eats 22 pounds of it weekly.

November 28, 2007
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Monkeys are the tourist draw in Lop Buri, Thailand. So once a year, the town cooks up a fancy feast to thank the smaller primates for all their "monkey business."

November 27, 2007
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Several of the ornamental trees, celebrated as a national symbol of spring, are flowering early, an event that some experts link to climate change.

November 27, 2007
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Farmers recently attacked police who were looking to seize dinosaur bones, setting up the first court test of a fossil-trade ban targeting "peasant paleontologists."

November 27, 2007
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Activists protest Japan's whaling, a deadly mine accident roils Ukraine, fog envelopes Dubai skyscrapers, and more.

November 21, 2007
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The 8-foot (2.5-meter) prehistoric predator is the biggest bug ever found, says a study of the beast's huge fossil claw.

November 21, 2007
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Wildlife conservationists in India have devised a humane way to prevent wild elephant attacks on settlements and crops -- building fences smeared with the world's hottest chili.

November 20, 2007
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Exclusive new pictures show a 450-pound Mekong giant catfish. It's the only one caught this year—a bad sign, according to a scientist on the scene.

November 19, 2007
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Despite a brush with extinction a few decades ago, the wilder cousins to your Thanksgiving entrée are today thriving on the streets of suburban America.

November 19, 2007
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Stem cells from cloned monkey embryos cause cautious optimism in scientists who say the advance may eventually lead to better human medical treatments.

November 15, 2007
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Tiny machines designed to smell and act like cockroaches were able to influence real bugs in their search for shade, a new study shows.

November 15, 2007
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Vacuum, lawn mower—whatever you call it, Nigersaurus was bizarre. See a 500-tooth dinosaur whose secrets are coming to light.

November 15, 2007

Join National Geographic News on the trail with Megafishes project leader Zeb Hogan, as he tracks down—and helps save—the world's largest freshwater fish.

Last updated April 29, 2008
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Nigersaurus—an elephant-size dinosaur with a featherweight skull and a mouth that worked like a lawn mower—suggests that long-necked plant-eaters browsed like cows.

November 15, 2007

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