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In his new National Geographic series Pole to Pole, the actor ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose ...

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The Russian government takes action weeks after video footage showed the animals languishing in freezing waters.

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Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...