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Slow, Fat, And Stupid? Think Again. The Dodo Was An Active, Lean Bird And A Creature Of The NightA reconstruction of a dodo feeding in a forest at night. Slow, Fat, And Stupid? Think Again. The Dodo Was An Active, Lean Bird And A Creature Of The NightA reconstruction of a dodo feeding in a forest at night.

Slow, Fat, And Stupid? Think Again. The Dodo Was An Active, Lean Bird And A Creature Of The Night

For centuries we've been thinking about dodos in the completely wrong way.

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A New Longest-Living Fish? Sturgeon Could Top 400 Years – Far Longer Than Scientists Believed, But Something Indigenous Communities Had Long Understoodtwo adults hold a sturgeon, it's very long and heavy

A New Longest-Living Fish? Sturgeon Could Top 400 Years – Far Longer Than Scientists Believed, But Something Indigenous Communities Had Long Understood

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Is It Cruel To Keep Cats Indoors? Turns Out Our Feline Friends May Change Their Stripes More Easily Than We ThoughtA large ginger and white cat half out of a cat flap showing face and front paws.

Is It Cruel To Keep Cats Indoors? Turns Out Our Feline Friends May Change Their Stripes More Easily Than We Thought

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Living Magnets: Meet the Bacteria That Can Sense Earth's Magnetic FieldA coloured microscope image showing different coloured blobs of bacteria.

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Living Magnets: Meet the Bacteria That Can Sense Earth's Magnetic FieldA coloured microscope image showing different coloured blobs of bacteria.
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Living Magnets: Meet the Bacteria That Can Sense Earth's Magnetic Field

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The First New Ice Age Toad From La Brea Tar Pits – North America's Second Ice Age Amphibian – Is Helping Us Understand Climate ChangeA reconstruction of the La Brea tar pits showing in the background horses and mammoths, but in the foreground a range of amphibian species.

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The First New Ice Age Toad From La Brea Tar Pits – North America's Second Ice Age Amphibian – Is Helping Us Understand Climate ChangeA reconstruction of the La Brea tar pits showing in the background horses and mammoths, but in the foreground a range of amphibian species.
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The First New Ice Age Toad From La Brea Tar Pits – North America's Second Ice Age Amphibian – Is Helping Us Understand Climate Change

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Dinosaurs Had Rocks In Their Bellies. We’ve Found A Bunch Of Them, But We’re Only Now Realizing How Many Juicy Details They ContainPsittacosaurus mongoliensis specimen AMNH 6254. An arrow is pointing to many rocks under its ribs saying "gastroliths"

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Dinosaurs Had Rocks In Their Bellies. We’ve Found A Bunch Of Them, But We’re Only Now Realizing How Many Juicy Details They ContainPsittacosaurus mongoliensis specimen AMNH 6254. An arrow is pointing to many rocks under its ribs saying "gastroliths"
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Dinosaurs Had Rocks In Their Bellies. We’ve Found A Bunch Of Them, But We’re Only Now Realizing How Many Juicy Details They Contain

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"You Can't Unsee The Muppet Show" – Meet The Sea Muppets, Mysterious New Species That Have Never Been Seen AliveThree examples of the new species, two on the left beloning to Australyichthys aegis and the final one on the right is Australyichthys minotaur. All are orangey yellow and quite small.

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"You Can't Unsee The Muppet Show" – Meet The Sea Muppets, Mysterious New Species That Have Never Been Seen AliveThree examples of the new species, two on the left beloning to Australyichthys aegis and the final one on the right is Australyichthys minotaur. All are orangey yellow and quite small.
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"You Can't Unsee The Muppet Show" – Meet The Sea Muppets, Mysterious New Species That Have Never Been Seen Alive

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Watch The Dramatic Moment A Gigantic Iceberg Flips Over Right Next To A Town In GreenlandA large iceberg, which can be seen above and reflected in the water.

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Watch The Dramatic Moment A Gigantic Iceberg Flips Over Right Next To A Town In GreenlandA large iceberg, which can be seen above and reflected in the water.
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Watch The Dramatic Moment A Gigantic Iceberg Flips Over Right Next To A Town In Greenland

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How “A Little Bowel Movement” 540 Million Years Ago Sparked An Evolutionary Explosion, Changing The Face Of Earth Foreverlots of alien-looking complex life swimming in the ancient ocean

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How “A Little Bowel Movement” 540 Million Years Ago Sparked An Evolutionary Explosion, Changing The Face Of Earth Foreverlots of alien-looking complex life swimming in the ancient ocean
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How “A Little Bowel Movement” 540 Million Years Ago Sparked An Evolutionary Explosion, Changing The Face Of Earth Forever

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Wild Monkeys Were Introduced To An AI Computer System In The Jungle, Revealing Insights Into Their Cognitive PowersTwo capuchin monkeys with a computer in the Taboga Forest Reserve of Costa Rica.

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Wild Monkeys Were Introduced To An AI Computer System In The Jungle, Revealing Insights Into Their Cognitive PowersTwo capuchin monkeys with a computer in the Taboga Forest Reserve of Costa Rica.
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Wild Monkeys Were Introduced To An AI Computer System In The Jungle, Revealing Insights Into Their Cognitive Powers

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Sperm Whales Produce Loudest Sound Ever Made By A Mammal And It Can Travel Whopping 70 Kilometers, But No One Knows WhyA large sperm whale with its mouth open near the surface of the water

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Sperm Whales Produce Loudest Sound Ever Made By A Mammal And It Can Travel Whopping 70 Kilometers, But No One Knows WhyA large sperm whale with its mouth open near the surface of the water
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Sperm Whales Produce Loudest Sound Ever Made By A Mammal And It Can Travel Whopping 70 Kilometers, But No One Knows Why

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There Were Actually Two Mass Extinctions During The Cretaceous, And The First One Is Looking Very FamiliarBy comapring vast numbers of foramanifera samples collected from the ocean floor at different ages, Dr Jonathon Chen established the cause of the second worst extinction of these calcifying plankton

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There Were Actually Two Mass Extinctions During The Cretaceous, And The First One Is Looking Very FamiliarBy comapring vast numbers of foramanifera samples collected from the ocean floor at different ages, Dr Jonathon Chen established the cause of the second worst extinction of these calcifying plankton
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There Were Actually Two Mass Extinctions During The Cretaceous, And The First One Is Looking Very Familiar

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Long-running London Weather Station May Have Seen First Calendar Month With No Rain Since 1871A simple rain gauge: A test tube with a funneled top.

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Long-running London Weather Station May Have Seen First Calendar Month With No Rain Since 1871A simple rain gauge: A test tube with a funneled top.
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Long-running London Weather Station May Have Seen First Calendar Month With No Rain Since 1871

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One Of The World’s Rarest Amphibians Was Down To Its Last 1,000. Now, 32 Have Been Released Into The Wild In A Top Secret Locationa greyish juvenile newt looks directly at the camera, it's giving Toothless in How To Train Your Dragon

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One Of The World’s Rarest Amphibians Was Down To Its Last 1,000. Now, 32 Have Been Released Into The Wild In A Top Secret Locationa greyish juvenile newt looks directly at the camera, it's giving Toothless in How To Train Your Dragon
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One Of The World’s Rarest Amphibians Was Down To Its Last 1,000. Now, 32 Have Been Released Into The Wild In A Top Secret Location

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"Very, Very Rare" Humpback Whale Birth Captured By Drone Shows Calf's Critical First Moments And Mom's Maternal InstinctsA grey humpback whale calf swims just above its much large dark blue mother at the water's surface.

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"Very, Very Rare" Humpback Whale Birth Captured By Drone Shows Calf's Critical First Moments And Mom's Maternal InstinctsA grey humpback whale calf swims just above its much large dark blue mother at the water's surface.
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"Very, Very Rare" Humpback Whale Birth Captured By Drone Shows Calf's Critical First Moments And Mom's Maternal Instincts

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The Story Of The Last Surviving Woolly Mammoths And What Might Have Caused Them To Go Extinct This is a 3d render illustration of a woolly mammoth looking very cute and hairy with big tusks.

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The Story Of The Last Surviving Woolly Mammoths And What Might Have Caused Them To Go Extinct This is a 3d render illustration of a woolly mammoth looking very cute and hairy with big tusks.
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The Story Of The Last Surviving Woolly Mammoths And What Might Have Caused Them To Go Extinct

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Mammals Crossed Between North And South America For Millions Of Years Before The Continents JoinedSloth swimming in the Amazon river

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Mammals Crossed Between North And South America For Millions Of Years Before The Continents JoinedSloth swimming in the Amazon river
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Mammals Crossed Between North And South America For Millions Of Years Before The Continents Joined

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Amazonian "Zombie-Ant" Fungus Just Got Even Weirder As Scientists Discover It’s Been Living A Secret Double Life Inside An Entirely Different HostCamponotus nidulans ants infected by O. camponoti-nidulantis found among bryophytes at the Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve. Specimen “TAJ59” found on Octoblepharum moss.

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Amazonian "Zombie-Ant" Fungus Just Got Even Weirder As Scientists Discover It’s Been Living A Secret Double Life Inside An Entirely Different HostCamponotus nidulans ants infected by O. camponoti-nidulantis found among bryophytes at the Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve. Specimen “TAJ59” found on Octoblepharum moss.
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Amazonian "Zombie-Ant" Fungus Just Got Even Weirder As Scientists Discover It’s Been Living A Secret Double Life Inside An Entirely Different Host

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In 2009, Scientists Drilled 183 Meters Beneath An Antarctic Ice Shelf And Found A Surprising Lifeforma little orange blob clings to a cable deep inside a hole drilled into ice
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In 2009, Scientists Drilled 183 Meters Beneath An Antarctic Ice Shelf And Found A Surprising Lifeform

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Tuna Rarely Show Up In Public Aquariums, And There Are A Bunch Of Good Reasons Why That's The Casearticle image
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Tuna Rarely Show Up In Public Aquariums, And There Are A Bunch Of Good Reasons Why That's The Case

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How Do You Name A Species? A Palaeontologist With A Dinosaur Named After Him Spills The Beansa glass cabinet in a museum contains multiple taxidermy bird species
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How Do You Name A Species? A Palaeontologist With A Dinosaur Named After Him Spills The Beans

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Could You Survive Being Sucked Into A Tornado?a woman backs away from a tornado
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Could You Survive Being Sucked Into A Tornado?

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Video: Which Animal Has The Largest Brain?A brains butt
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Video: Which Animal Has The Largest Brain?

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Video: The Ordovician Mass Extinctionan organism from the Ordovician time
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Video: The Ordovician Mass Extinction

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Do Animals Have Pets? Monkey Friendships With Squirrels, Pigs, And Dogs Could Explain Why We Love Our Animal Pals So Muchon the left is a tufted langur, it is stroking a squirrel splooted on the branch they're both sitting on

Do Animals Have Pets? Monkey Friendships With Squirrels, Pigs, And Dogs Could Explain Why We Love Our Animal Pals So Much

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Scientists Create G-Rated “OnlyMarms” To Save World’s Second-Longest Wild Animal Observation ProjectA marmot caught mid movement, looking surprised at the camera.

Scientists Create G-Rated “OnlyMarms” To Save World’s Second-Longest Wild Animal Observation Project

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Avocado Trees Start The Day As One Sex And Switch To The Other In The Afternoon. We’ve Only Just Learned HowDr Jeffrey Groh looking at avocado plants, enabling breeders to determine whether a plant will be female in the morning or afternoon before maturity for the first time

Avocado Trees Start The Day As One Sex And Switch To The Other In The Afternoon. We’ve Only Just Learned How

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385 Million-Year-Old Fragments Found Inside Coal Rewrites The History Of The World's Oldest AmberAmber fragments on a pale blue background

385 Million-Year-Old Fragments Found Inside Coal Rewrites The History Of The World's Oldest Amber

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Frozen Pathogens Are Waking Up From Earth's Ice: Is Humankind Screwed Or Have Horror Headlines Tricked Us?zombie hand emerging from a rocky black and blue earth with two circles zooming out from it showing petri dishes of micro organisms. The background shows illustrations of microbes in white on a pale grey and there's a green logo in the top right that reads IFLScience Viral Summer.

Frozen Pathogens Are Waking Up From Earth's Ice: Is Humankind Screwed Or Have Horror Headlines Tricked Us?

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After More Than 60 Years Presumed Dead, A Coral Reef Is Alive and Thriving Off The Coast Of BeninAn underwater photograph of a coral reef showing colorful fan like corals and the sandy bottom of the sea floor.

After More Than 60 Years Presumed Dead, A Coral Reef Is Alive and Thriving Off The Coast Of Benin

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At The Time Of The Odyssey, Mediterranean Civilizations Collapsed And A Climatic Coincidence Explains WhyTurkey, Istanbul - 2017: Waterless dam in a dry and drought-affected landscape. The appearance of cracked soil when the waters receded in Alibeyköy dam

At The Time Of The Odyssey, Mediterranean Civilizations Collapsed And A Climatic Coincidence Explains Why

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Air-Conditioning Isn't The Solution To A Warmer World, A Global Review WarnsPhoto view of a facade of a typical old ancient hk hong kong tower housing industrial buildings in Kowloon

Air-Conditioning Isn't The Solution To A Warmer World, A Global Review Warns

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Incredible Marine Reptile Fossil Preserves Its Internal Organs In Such Detail That Its Liver Is Still A "Reddish Color"An artists impression of Austranaga hunting fish in the sea.

Incredible Marine Reptile Fossil Preserves Its Internal Organs In Such Detail That Its Liver Is Still A "Reddish Color"

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Three-Way Chomp-Fest Between Ancient Species Shows Who Was Eating Who in The Lower CretaceousA paeloart drawing of a ichthyosaur biting a pterosaur while and pliosaur swims below.

Three-Way Chomp-Fest Between Ancient Species Shows Who Was Eating Who in The Lower Cretaceous

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The Birth Of A Seafloor: Scientists Witness New Oceanic Crust Forming Through Earth Splitting Apart For First TimeHydrothermal vents on the ocean floor

The Birth Of A Seafloor: Scientists Witness New Oceanic Crust Forming Through Earth Splitting Apart For First Time

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The Joke's On You: "Invisible Gold" Has Been Found Hiding Inside Fool's Gold In The Deep SeaJapanese scientists found evidence of gold nanoparticles in sulfide deposits at the Higashi–Aogashima Knoll Caldera hydrothermal field.

The Joke's On You: "Invisible Gold" Has Been Found Hiding Inside Fool's Gold In The Deep Sea

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Newly Discovered Spider Is Basically A Mechanical Engineer, Building Spring-Loaded Snares To Catapult Its PreyA spider creates a cone of silk on a leaf, luring the ant to bite the cone.

Newly Discovered Spider Is Basically A Mechanical Engineer, Building Spring-Loaded Snares To Catapult Its Prey

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New World Screwworm Detected In US For First Time Since 1966, Despite Efforts To Stop It Crossing The BorderSingle NWS larva placed next to a U.S. nickel to illustrate the size comparison.

New World Screwworm Detected In US For First Time Since 1966, Despite Efforts To Stop It Crossing The Border

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