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If the animal kingdom is anything to go by, love is, indeed, a many-splendored thing. We humans may have slightly ...

A: Cats are especially sensitive to the toxin of the black widow spider, the most venomous spider in North America.

Q: Our indoor-outdoor cats are fascinated by the spiders and spider webs around our house. I am concerned some of the black, ...

It is amazing to think that the Hudsonian godwit species, which can live to be 20 years old, travels 20,000 miles annually in ...