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Biggest dam home in the neighbourhood

"One of the best things about living in the sticks is that you can build big and no one around really notices or complains.

An ecologist in Canada has discovered a home the size of eight football pitches while using Google Earth and NASA satellite technology to research the rate of melting permafrost in the country's far north, BBC reports.

The residents are none other than industrious beavers, living in the 850m dam - believed to be the largest in the world. The beavers are thought to have started building it in the 1970s.