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Can Toads Predict Earthquakes?

By Gregory MoneMar 30th 2010 – 7:10PM
ZUMA Press

ZUMA Press

(March 30) -- For thousands of years, people have been speculating that animals can foresee natural disasters. Birds, snakes, chickens, dogs and cows have all been reported to have this seemingly magical ability. Yet all of the evidence has been anecdotal -- a story here, a rumor there, but nothing reliable. Now, a pair...

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The Open University (also commonly referred to by its initialism OU) is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom.

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