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Researchers announced over 70 new species in a single year, including bizarre insects, ancient dinosaurs, rare mammals, and ...

ON AN OCTOBER night in 1989, a 4-year-old girl was shocked awake by a phone ringing and then a scream. She crept out of her bedroom and tiptoed barefoot along the hallway’s clammy vinyl tile, ...