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No Eggs Needed: 'Fanged' Frogs Give Birth (Newser Daily Digest)

No Eggs Needed: 'Fanged' Frogs Give Birth

(Newser) - Your typical frogs lay eggs, while a few species give birth to froglets. But frogs giving birth to tadpoles is new to science—and researchers have managed to witness it, the BBC reports. A scientist at Berkeley was holding what he thought was a male frog when it gave birth... More »

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Animal Life-Savers: 5 Most Uplifting Stories of the Week

(Newser) - A couple of people who went above and beyond to save our animal friends and Peyton Manning making the classiest of calls make this week's list: 90-Year-Old Twins Die 2 Hours Apart : They entered the world together and left it pretty much the same way: Twin sisters Mary Dickson... More »

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Thousands of Dead Birds Keep Washing Ashore on West Coast

(Newser) - From California to Washington state, thousands of dead birds have been turning up on the shoreline, and scientists don't know what to make of it. It's not all kinds of birds that are dying: just a species of small birds known as Cassin's auklets, the Los Angeles ... More »

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Couple Trapped in US Escapes $200K Bill After Early Birth

(Newser) - When a British couple vacationing in New York had a baby 11 weeks earlier than expected, they were told they couldn't go home until March because the baby wasn't ready to fly—and that meant a $200,000 medical bill. Good news for Kate Amos and Lee Johnston:... More »

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CIA: All Those 1950s UFO Sightings? 'It Was Us'

(Newser) - As far as "best of 2014" lists go, the CIA has a pretty irresistible one: On Dec. 22 it started tweeting links to the 10 most popular articles of the year that it shared on Twitter, and the agency arrived at No. 1 earlier this week, tweeting : "Reports... More »

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Experts: Facebook Lies Create False Memories

(Newser) - Lying your tushy off on social networks may impress your friends, but research suggests that it can also create false memories and disconnect us from our true self, the Telegraph reports. "Being competitive and wanting to put our best face forward—seeking support or empathy from our peers—is... More »

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5 Apologies of the Week

(Newser) - Someone somewhere is always apologizing for something. Here are some high-profile ones over the past week: Wedding bells: "Listen. Congratulations on your wedding. I feel terrible. Nobody told us."—President Obama, to Ed Mallue Jr. and Natalie Heimel after they had to move their wedding from a... More »

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Job Ad for Paintball Target Gets 10K Replies

(Newser) - It's not every help-wanted ad that asks, "Do you have a relatively high pain threshold?" But that didn't stop more than 10,000 people from applying anyway, reports AFP . The job in question? Human paintball target. The British company UKPaintball has stopped accepting applications to become an... More »

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Experts Solve 70-Year-Old Driving Mystery

(Newser) - "Think before you jerk.” “Jerking isn’t a joke." Such slogans, as reported in the Washington Post and elsewhere, garnered national attention when used to remind drivers in South Dakota not to over-correct their steering on slick roads. Indeed, the standard theory behind the way we... More »

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