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Top 6 Super Bowl ads featuring animals (+video)

Super Bowl ads reflect a broader truism in advertising: A cute animal is a better pitchman than a human 9 times in 10 (Peyton Manning aside). Over the years, some of the most successful Super Bowl ads of all time have featured a wide array of animals, from mighty Clydesdales to lowly mosquitoes. Here is our countdown of six of the best ever fuzzy (and not so fuzzy) Super Bowl commercials, including a winner from Super Bowl XLVI. Did your all-time favorite take the top spot?
4 great books for 4-to-8-year-olds

Summer is rapidly approaching and soon young readers – just like their parents – will need engaging beach books. If you're looking for quality titles to keep 4-to-8-year-old readers in the page-turning mode all summer along, here are four good bets.
The top 10 monkeys

There are 264 known monkey species. Here are the best ones.
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Humans, gorillas more alike than previously thought, say scientists

Fifteen percent of humans and chimp DNA is closer to that to gorillas than to each other, a new study finds.
Gorillas are more like humans than we knew, study says

New research has shown that humans are more like gorillas than scientists previously understood. 15 percent of human DNA is more similar to gorillas than to chimps.
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Tacugama gives sanctuary to chimpanzees - through war and peace

Even an 11-year civil war couldn't stop Bala Amarasekaran from rescuing and rehabilitating chimps in Sierra Leone.
Men not on verge of extinction, report scientists

A new study suggests that the Y chromosome, previously thought to be evolving into oblivion, will persist.
Top 6 Super Bowl ads featuring animals (+video)

Super Bowl ads reflect a broader truism in advertising: A cute animal is a better pitchman than a human 9 times in 10 (Peyton Manning aside). Over the years, some of the most successful Super Bowl ads of all time have featured a wide array of animals, from mighty Clydesdales to lowly mosquitoes. Here is our countdown of six of the best ever fuzzy (and not so fuzzy) Super Bowl commercials, including a winner from Super Bowl XLVI. Did your all-time favorite take the top spot?
Dracula-esque monkey long thought vanished reappears

A team set up camera traps in Borneo in June, hoping to captures images of wildlife known to congregate at several mineral salt licks but the pictures that came back caught them all by surprise: groups of monkeys none had ever seen.
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New guidelines show chimps are rarely needed for medical research

The National Institutes of Health issued new guidelines indicating that the use of chimpanzees to study diseases is rarely necessary.
Project Nim: movie review

A chimp experiment gone awry, 'Project Nim' takes an unsettling look at the life of a young chimp raised in a human family.
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Borneo project restores orangutan habitat

The Borneo Orangutan Survival project in Indonesia could be a blueprint for saving habitat, cutting greenhouse gases.
Humans evolving slower than previously thought, study finds

A study of the genomes of two families has found that the number of mutations thought to occur each generation had been overestimated, suggesting that the pace of human evolution is slower than scientists had thought.
4 great books for 4-to-8-year-olds

Summer is rapidly approaching and soon young readers – just like their parents – will need engaging beach books. If you're looking for quality titles to keep 4-to-8-year-old readers in the page-turning mode all summer along, here are four good bets.
Super Bowl commercials: What happens to those CareerBuilder chimps?

They're not monkeys. They're chimpanzees with short working lives in entertainment, after which they can't be returned to zoos or the wild. Lucky ones end up in sanctuaries, needing care for the next 40 years. Major ad agencies have pledged not to use great apes. Why won't CareerBuilder?
The top 10 monkeys

There are 264 known monkey species. Here are the best ones.
Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 10/29
Snub-nosed monkey can't stop sneezing when it rains

Snub-nosed monkey, newly discovered in a remote forest in Myanmar, has a nose that is upturned, causing it to sneeze whenever it rains.
Was Tyrannosaurus rex a cannibal?

Gouges on the bones of Tyrannosaurus rex fossils suggest that the prehistoric giant may have made a habit of snacking on members of its own species.
Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 08/17
Chimpanzee gangs fight and kill for land, new research suggests

Chimpanzee gangs commit these crimes to gain territory.
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Bonobo Handshake

Researcher Vanessa Woods shares a tale about a species that can teach all of us a thing or two about peace.
Want to look like a Neanderthal? There's an app for that.

A new iPhone app just released by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History shows what you would look like if you were a Neanderthal with an iPhone.
Cavemen among us: Some humans are 4 percent Neanderthal

A new study concludes that humans mated with Neanderthals 50,000 to 80,000 years ago, leaving traces of the Neanderthal genome in some modern humans.
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'Oriental Yeti' found in China is no Yeti

Photos of what Chinese trappers call an 'Oriental Yeti' show what appears to be a big cat with mange. Bigfoot researchers are worried that the hype discredits real yeti research.
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The Medea Hypothesis: A response to the Gaia hypothesis

A new book, 'The Medea Hypothesis,' looks at the opposite of the Gaia hypothesis and suggests that life on Earth is self-destructive.
Sizing up palm oil

Palm oil is in everything from fuel to cosmetics. Is it a solution or a problem?