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Instead, scientists often use the animal’s distinct calls—which sound like a crying newborn baby, the likely source of their name—to differentiate between closely related species.

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An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic Society's collection in 1967. The elephant bird belongs to a ...

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Yet fish populations around the world, and the animals that eat them, depend on just how many larval fish make it ...