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Monarch butterflies get tiny trackers to help scientists follow their mysterious migration

Monarch butterflies get tiny trackers to help scientists follow their mysterious migration
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As a child, Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñón wondered where monarch butterflies stop for a meal and a night's rest on their long migrations across North America. Now she and other scientists are attaching tiny tracking devices to hundreds of butterflies to find those critical stopover locations before they...

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