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A cactus no bigger than a paperclip grows across the rocky eastern slopes of the Kaibab Plateau. Its thin, long spines protrude from its rotund body like a plump hedgehog.
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The Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee has a unique life cycle. Like cuckoo birds, they lay their eggs in the nests of other species instead of rearing their own young.
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Footprints made tens of thousands of years ago may look like they’ve been erased by time and weather, but — like invisible ink — they can sometimes reappear under the right conditions.
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Pueblo Grande de Nevada — known as the "Lost City" — is an archeological site near Overton, Nevada. It’s a complex of villages inhabited by the Ancestral Puebloans for nearly a thousand years.
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Artificial Intelligence is being applied to many areas of life, including forestry on the Colorado Plateau. A team at NAU is using AI models in conjunction with Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) technology.
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The Dilophosaurus is probably the best-known dinosaur whose fossil remains have been found in Arizona. That’s because the movie "Jurassic Park” made it famous — or at least a version of it.
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What does a flower look like to a hummingbird? New research says it’s probably nothing like what humans perceive because hummingbirds can spot ordinary colors blended with ultraviolet light.
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Every spring, three species of nectar-feeding bats travel several hundred miles from Mexico into Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to reach maternity roosts where they rear their young.
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In the summer of 2023, what seemed like tiny aliens turned up at the Wupatki National Monument. A visitor told park staff that tadpoles were wriggling about in a pool of standing water that had flooded the Ancestral Puebloan ballcourt.
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Marine reptiles called Ichthyosaurs existed millions of years ago within a vast ocean that surrounded the supercontinent known as Pangea. They had streamlined bodies adapted for swift movement in aquatic environments.
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The Species from Feces Lab at Northern Arizona University examines DNA in animal feces. The lab’s motto is "to be number one at number two.”
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Fewer than 2% of North America’s bark beetle species attack trees, but those that do have killed billions of conifers across the West over the last 30 years.