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What Are Frankincense and Myrrh?
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The three wise men in the story of Christmas carried gold, frankincense and myrrh. What are frankincense and myrrh? Can you still get them these days?
Ranunculus Is a Toxic Beauty With a Doozy of a Name
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Ranunculus is a genus containing more than 600 species, all of which are beautiful, but toxic to both humans and animals.
Can You Name All 40 of These Flowers?
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How well do you know the flowers of the world? If you were given images of 40 of these plants, would you be able to guess what they are? Take this quiz to find out!
Can You Identify All 40 of These Common House Plants?
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They light up our houses with color and cleanse our air, but can you do them a solid in return and tell us what their names are?
Crested Porcupine
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The Crested Porcupine belongs to one of the three species in the genus Hystrix. Learn more about this creature at HowStuffWorks.
Can You Identify These These Spring Flowers From an Image?
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The weather is warming up, the sun is shining, the birds are singing and the flowers are blooming-but what kind of flowers are they? Can you name all of these blooms that start popping out once spring has sprung?
The Big Dinosaur Debate: Is It an Apatosaurus or Brontosaurus?
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Apatosaurus was a sauropod of spectacular proportions. But there's a debate raging for decades about whether its genus should cancel out the Brontosaurus.
Quiz: Guess These Animals Based on Their Scientific Names
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You probably like a lot of Animalia (that's the scientific name for animals), but how well do you know their formal monikers? You may be surprised by how many you get right!
Hawk vs. Falcon: Spotting Differences Between Birds of Prey
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You spot a bird of prey, and your friend says it's a peregrine falcon but her partner says it's a hawk. Can you resolve the great hawk vs. falcon debate?
Animal Classification: A Taxonomy for All Living Things
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The taxonomy that Carl Linnaeus introduced in "Systema Naturae" set the stage for a uniform animal classification system.