Committee for Research and Exploration Projects

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  Sucker-Footed Bat Hangs Upright Via Sweat, Not Suction

  Despite its name, the sucker-footed bat of Madagascar actually uses "modified sweat" to cling to slick leaves, a new study says.

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  Where Are All the Migratory Birds Going?

  The bobolink, a North American relative of blackbirds, finds its wintering grounds in South America by reading the sun and stars, Earth's landscape and magnetic fields, and polarized light humans can't even see.

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  Prehistoric Pygmy Sea Cow Discovered in Madagascar

  The fossil "water bushpig"—as the locals call it—fills in a gap between primitive land-dwelling mammals to today's aquatic sea cows, a new study says.

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  Ice Baby

  A near-perfect frozen mammoth resurfaces after 40,000 years, bearing clues to a great vanished species.