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The Hungry Horse Ranger District on the Flathead National Forest in Montana recently announced the Moccasin Granite Project ...

This spider doesn’t run or hide when danger strikes. Instead, it builds a fake version of itself — and predators fall for it.

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Some of nature’s most mesmerizing works of art might just be hanging in your backyard. The artist is an orb weaver spider.

Discover eight animals with shockingly long tongues and how evolution shaped their extraordinary feeding adaptations.