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A cactus wren finds a perch atop a flowering saguaro cactus in Arizona. The popular desert plant also has become attractive to poachers and vandals. (Associated Press)
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Chilling: In 2007, explorers in the oil-rich Arctic dropped two miniature submarines more than 2 miles beneath the ice at the North Pole to plant a Russian flag on the ocean floor. (Associated Press)
