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Come hither: The deceptive beauty of orchids

The flying duck orchid shows biologist-turned-photographer Christian Ziegler's view of one of the biggest, most diverse families of flowering plants

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Microkillers: A gallery of pestilence

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Beyond Room 101: The hyperaggressive rat

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Mighty Mars rover on the blocks

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Treehoppers put obsolete genetics to fashionable use

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Portrait of a bog man

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Existence: Bright lights of our galaxy's downtown

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Howling haboob smothers Phoenix

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Free-diving Indian Ocean nomads under threat

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Japan emerges from megaquake's wreckage

Before-and-after images show what has been accomplished by extraordinary efforts to clear up after March's earthquake and tsunami in Japan

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Environment

A stone's throw from a chimp

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ALMA casts a cold eye on the sky

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Bolivia's stunning salt flats

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Polar bear molar check

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