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Common garter snakes, native to North America, are non-venomous reptiles found throughout the continent.
An eared grebe sporting its breeding plumage swims on a lake in New Mexico.
California's Mono Lake is an earthly stand-in for the Mars of four billion years ago, when the planet was starting to lose its surface water. As the lake's waters slowly evaporate and recede, they reveal tufas, strangely shaped towers of calcium carbonate. Scientists use the lake to test hardware bound for Mars, and they study microbes that live in its salty, alkaline waters.
Looks fierce? Not according to fishers, half their size. New researchers shows the weasels aren’t daunted at taking Canada lynx out for dinner – literally preying on the cats in Maine.
Don’t let the cute face distract you. Fishers are calculating predators, killing lynx and other animals by going straight for their necks.