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9-year-old Molly Sampson spent Christmas morning searching for shark teeth. She found a huge fossil left by a predator from the ancient past.

9-year-old Molly Sampson spent Christmas morning searching for shark teeth. She found a huge fossil left by a predator from the ancient past.

9-year-old Molly Sampson spent Christmas morning searching for shark teeth. She found a huge fossil left by a predator from the ancient past.

Here are our favorite rivers, lakes and swimming holes near Washington, D.C., so you can cool off without getting stuck in Bay Bridge traffic.

Cliffs are prominent topographic features found around the world. From El Capitan in Yosemite to the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland, for generations humans have marveled at the drastic vertical faces of cliffs. Humans have…

But reeds not natural to the United States are choking the wetlands, killing the native plants and eliminating  food supplies for native wildlife.  “It’s slowly taking over. It’s taking away everything that is natural to this area,” said Megan Williams of Friends of Calvert Cliffs State Park.  “Most people call it phrag or phragmites,” said Autumn Phillips-Lewis, co-owner of EcoHaven. “That is a non-native, invasive species brought over from Europe in the early eighteenth cent...