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A hollow-eyed predator with spikes for teeth has washed up dead on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, igniting a social media debate over the species. “Definitely a shark, but what kind?” Chris Patterson ...

Just off a particularly busy stretch of Long Island City’s Northern Boulevard, on an upper floor of an old commercial building, quietly sits a behemoth of the puppetry world: Jim Henson’s Creature ...

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Human remains were found in a popular northwest suburban forest preserve over the weekend, according to police. The Forest Preserve District of Kane County said a death investigation is underway after ...

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