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The Tohono O’odham family behind the counter has been serving the community for decades, keeping recipes and traditions alive ...

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Frank Jackson State Park sprawls across 2,050 acres of south Alabama beauty like it’s showing off, yet somehow manages to stay off most people’s radar. This isn’t one of those places where you need to ...

Birds understand many sounds around them, from mates to alarms, and this hidden skill may hint at how human language first ...

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For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce new sounds. But a new article in The Quarterly Review of Biology reveals ...