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How Beavers Helped to Build America

Posted by  Jennifer Viegas  Wed Dec 28, 2011 11:47 AM ET   |   0

Once abundant and widespread, beavers helped to forge the ground under our feet, making water safe to drink and the land an oasis for life. Read more

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Largest Beaver Dam Seen From Space

Posted Thu May 6, 2010 09:48 AM ET   |   0

The dam in northern Canada spans 2,800 feet and has likely been under construction since the 1970s. Read more

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Ancient, Giant Beavers Didn't Have a Taste for Wood

Posted Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:34 PM ET   |   0

Behemoth beavers that lived in North America during the last ice age ate little if any material from trees, a new analysis suggests. Read more

Ancient Giant Beaver Trees

Tiny, Giant Beavers All One Family: Discovery News : Discovery Channel

Posted Tue Jun 17, 2008 07:05 AM ET

The world's smallest beaver was directly related to a 8-foot-long giant that weighed over 400 pounds. Read more

Mega-Dam Builder

Discovery News : Discovery Channel

Posted Wed May 7, 2008 12:19 PM ET

Arguably the oddest beast in Nature's menagerie, the platypus looks as if were assembled from spare parts left over after the animal kingdom was otherwise complete. Read more

One Weird Mammal

Discovery News : Discovery Channel

Posted Mon Oct 22, 2007 07:59 AM ET

Close relatives of the platypus, a semi-aquatic mammal that is so unusual scientists at first thought it was a hoax, emerged much earlier than previously thought, scientists announced recently. Read more

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