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Pablo Escobar's illegal hippos, once a symbol of excess, now pose a major ecological and safety crisis in Colombia.

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Which animal kills the most humans per year? If you guessed sharks, you'd be wrong ...

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Genetic testing revealed that nutria living in California since 2017 are most closely related to a population in central ...

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