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Armadillos are an established species in southern Illinois, but officials now are examining whether their territory is moving ...

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Parts of this half-natural, half-artificial landscape are now an 'ecological reserve'. Criterion (ii) : From the 14th to the 19th century, Tenochtitlan, and subsequently, Mexico City, exerted decisive ...