June 24: The crew of the International Space Station, who found themselves directly over an erupting volcano in the North Pacific, snapped some shots of the shock wave from the eruption

A brown bat emerges from beneath an abandoned railroad pier at Chapman Bay north of Olympia, Wash., on June 20. Thousands of the female brown bats and Yuma bats take flight shortly after sunset each night to hunt for food for their b

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