The Great American Desert is very much like the proverbial little girl who had a curl right in the middle of her forehead: when it is good, it is very good, and when it's bad, it certainly is horrid.

although that distinction technically belongs to Antarctica (which is also a desert). Still, this South American desert is extremely dry. In fact, some weather stations in the Atacama have never ...

The American crow is the “default” crow across most of North America. It overlaps broadly with the common raven, and to a lesser extent with the Chihuahuan raven, fish crow, and northwestern crow.

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