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Get a whiff of this: Two small, semiaquatic mammals can use their sense of smell even when underwater, according to a new study.

The finding stems from high-speed video that shows a star-nosed mole rapidly blowing out bubbles of air and sucking them back in while foraging underwater.

Personally, I think it’s wrong to blame whoever is in charge of closing the gate. Gates that block remote roads, wether open or closed alert one to the fact this is probably a remote road that has occasional problems. Driving up a road into an area that gets wilder and wilder is also a classic sign to turn around.

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Federal workers failed to lock a gate blocking the logging road that led James Kim to his death last week — a different story than has been told since his death and his family’s rescue.

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The endangered black-footed ferret has put the freeze on energy development along a portion of the Utah-Colorado border in the Uinta Basin.

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“It is a consistent gathering every fall at Georgetown,” said FWP biologist Ray Vinkeyy. “They key in on the coots. The coots are a little slow to get off the lake.”

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WISDOM, Mont. (AP) — Federal agents killed four wolves on private land after attacks on livestock, said the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, which authorized the killings.

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BILLINGS, MONT. (LEE)–Electricity was restored everywhere but Grant Village on Monday in the wake of a powerful storm on Friday that knocked out power to much of Yellowstone National Park.

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A prominent Colorado adventure athlete can thank her dog and a Utah search-and-rescue team for saving her life after she fell and injured herself while running and spent two nights in subfreezing weather near Moab last week.