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Did you know that there may be 200 or so dwarf planets in the solar system, out to the Kuiper Belt?

Did you know that the Maya believed that the Earth was flat, and that there was a jaguar called a bacab in each corner that supported the sky?

 

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Caribbean Coral Reef Protection Efforts Miss the Mark

Conservation efforts to protect endangered corals in the Caribbean focus on the areas that have the largest variety of species. Ann Budd of the University of Iowa and John Pandolfi of the University of...Read more


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