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The Anguilla Bank skink, a Caribbean species discovered along with 23 others in 2012, is vulnerable to extinction. Karl Questel One night in June 2012, an entomologist named Piotr Naskrecki was ...

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Although the first documented use of @ was in 1536, the symbol did not rise from modern obscurity until 1971. Illustration by Erik Marinovich Called the “snail” by Italians and the “monkey tail” by ...

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