Bats in Minnesota dying from ‘white-nose syndrome’; areas of state see dramatic population decline

"White-nose syndrome" has drastically affected the bat population in Minnesota, the state’s department of natural resources said Thursday in a warning residents could see an increase in mosquitoes, moths and other insects without these winged creatures.

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Norway to return thousands of Easter Island artifacts taken by explorer Thor Heyerdahl

More than fifty years ago, famed Norwegian explorer, Thor Heyerdahl took thousands of precious artifacts from Chile’s Easter Island, but this week the Nordic nation agreed to send them home.

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WATCH: 'Ninja' kangaroo rat destroys rattlesnake in epic battle

A remarkable video has captured a kangaroo rat in Yuma, Az. leaping high into the air and kicking a rattlesnake in its face after the snake attempted to strike at the rat.

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Why Saturn's 'ring moons' are different colors and shapes

The bizarre shapes and diverse colors seen in some of Saturn's moons may now be explained, with the help of data taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft before it plunged to its doom.

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Enormous shark found with head bitten off by even bigger beast off Australia coast

An Australian fisherman has found a huge severed shark's head in the ocean, sparking fears there could be massive super shark roaming the waters.

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Warning graphic image: Gruesome pic shows toad turned inside out by mysterious predator

A disturbing and graphic image of a toad "turned inside out" has popped up on Twitter, no doubt the work of a deadly predator.

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‘Worst disease ever recorded’ is responsible for ‘frog apocalypse’

An apocalyptic fungus that chews through the flesh of frogs and toads is the "worst disease ever recorded."

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Mars was once covered in wide, raging rivers

Mars was wet, until suddenly it wasn't.

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Palestinians mass at Gaza border to mark protest anniversary

Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied at the Israel-Gaza border on Saturday, facing off against Israeli tanks and troops on the first anniversary of the 'Great March of Return' demonstrations.

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Turks begin voting in local polls which Erdogan could lose in big cities

Turks began voting on Sunday in local elections that President Tayyip Erdogan has described as a matter of survival for the country.

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Comedian in front as curtain rises on Ukrainian presidential election

Ukrainians began voting in a presidential election on Sunday in which a comedian with no political experience and who plays a fictional president in a popular TV series is tipped to win the first round.

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Eiffel Tower goes dark for Earth Hour

The Eiffel Tower was plunged into darkness late on Saturday as the city of Paris switched off the lights on its best-known tourist attraction to mark this year's Earth Hour.

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Arab summit expected to reject U.S. decision over Golan

Arab heads of state, long divided by regional rivalries, are expected to unite at a summit on Sunday to oppose a U.S. decision to recognize Israel's annexation of Arab lands captured in 1967.

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Liberal lawyer Caputova wins election to become Slovakia's first female president

Riding a wave of public fury over corruption, liberal lawyer Zuzana Caputova won Slovakia's presidential election on Saturday, bucking a trend that has seen populist, anti-European Union politicians make gains across the continent.

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North Korea says embassy raid in Spain was a 'grave terrorist attack'

A break-in at the North Korean embassy in Spain last month was "a grave terrorist attack", a representative from North Korea's foreign ministry said on Sunday in the North's first official comment on the incident.

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Venezuelans rally to protest chronic power outages

Thousands of Venezuelan opposition sympathizers protested on Saturday against recurring blackouts that crippled much of the country this month and have aggravated the OPEC nation's economic and social crisis.

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Karachi revitalization drive aims to remake Pakistan's largest city

At a historic market commissioned by Queen Victoria in Pakistan's southern metropolis of Karachi, third-generation spice seller Mohammad Shakeel Abbasi complains that a move to clear illegal encroachments has left poor shopkeepers jobless.

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Trump cuts aid to Central American countries as migrant crisis deepens

The U.S. government cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras on Saturday after President Donald Trump blasted the Central American countries for sending migrants to the United States and threatened to shutter the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Korean Air stops serving peanuts after teens' flight disrupted by allergy

Korean Air Lines said on Sunday it has stopped serving peanuts as snacks to customers in response to a recent incident when two teenage brothers were unable to board a flight because of a peanut allergy.

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