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Sandhill cranes stage on Nebraska's Platte River each March in flocks approaching 1 million birds, roosting shoulder to shoulder on shallow sandbars the river only maintains because upstream irrigation withdrawals stop short of erasing its braided channel

Each March, more than a million sandhill cranes pack the shallow sandbars of Nebraska's Platte River in the single largest gathering of any crane species on Earth — a spectacle that depends on a braided channel the river barely still maintains.

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SN 1987A exploded 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud and was first spotted from Earth in February 1987; nearly four decades later, the James Webb Space Telescope has finally caught evidence of high-energy emission from what appears to be the neutron star left at its core

Nearly four decades after SN 1987A lit up southern skies from the Large Magellanic Cloud, the James Webb Space Telescope has caught the first strong signature of the neutron star buried in its debris — argon and sulphur ionised by a hidden high-energy source at the centre of the remnant.

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In 2011, a male wolf known as OR-7 walked from northeastern Oregon into California, becoming the first confirmed wild wolf in the state since 1924, and his descendants now form breeding packs in Siskiyou and Lassen counties more than a century after the species was extirpated

In December 2011, a collared Oregon wolf named OR-7 crossed into California — the first wild gray wolf in the state since 1924. His descendants now form breeding packs across five northern counties.

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