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The world’s oldest known wild bird, a Laysan albatross named Wisdom, has amazed scientists by laying an egg at the age of 74. Wisdom, who has been monitored since 1956, returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge last week, where she was spotted with a freshly laid egg. Laysan albatrosses, often mistaken for large gulls […]

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