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      <title>India had forty million vultures. Then a painkiller for cows arrived.</title>
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      <description>A cheap veterinary drug wiped out almost every vulture in South Asia in about fifteen years, and the bill for it was paid in human lives.</description>
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      <title>The Great Hedge of India, the wall of thorns Britain grew to tax salt</title>
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      <description>For most of the nineteenth century a barrier of living thorn ran across India, watched by more than fourteen thousand men, and its job was to stop you buying cheap salt.</description>
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      <title>India's own dinosaurs: a horned king, a lost giant, and a snake in the nest</title>
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      <description>India had its own dinosaurs, from a horned predator of the Narmada to a giant we know mostly from its fossil dung, and the country's last titans nested between flows of erupting lava.</description>
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      <title>Odisha, the only place on Earth with all three Indian crocodiles</title>
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      <description>India has three crocodilian species, and exactly one district on the planet has all of them living side by side.</description>
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      <title>The shark hiding in the Ganga</title>
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      <description>India's rivers hide one of the rarest sharks on Earth, and it is not the one everyone blames for the attacks.</description>
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      <description>What this place is, who is behind it, and what you will find here.</description>
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