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“Unprecedented” Long-Distance Swims Documented In Type D Killer Whales, One Of The World’s Most Mysterious Predatorsa killer whale breaches in a wave“Unprecedented” Long-Distance Swims Documented In Type D Killer Whales, One Of The World’s Most Mysterious Predatorsa killer whale breaches in a wave

“Unprecedented” Long-Distance Swims Documented In Type D Killer Whales, One Of The World’s Most Mysterious Predators

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Googly-Eyed Buoy Not Scary Enough To Deter Determined Seabirds From Fishing Net FeastA bright yellow bouy floating in the water with googly eyes on top next to a wooden pole with a cormorant sat on it.

Googly-Eyed Buoy Not Scary Enough To Deter Determined Seabirds From Fishing Net Feast

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In 2009, A Giant Whale Carcass Was Found On The Pacific Seabed – And Scientists Watched What Happened To It Over 15 YearsA large macrourid fish takes the center stage, possibly nibbling at small invertebrates colonizing the bones. Tube worms are visible in the left colonizing the left jawbone. Those same tubeworms were first seen in 2009 when this whale fall was discovered and indicate the multi-decade persistence of the sulphophilic stage.

In 2009, A Giant Whale Carcass Was Found On The Pacific Seabed – And Scientists Watched What Happened To It Over 15 Years

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Why Do Some Zoos Smell Like Someone’s Smoking Weed? Just Ask The "Skunk Wolf"a maned wolf has long black legs, shaggy orange fur, and pointy black ears

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Why Do Some Zoos Smell Like Someone’s Smoking Weed? Just Ask The "Skunk Wolf"a maned wolf has long black legs, shaggy orange fur, and pointy black ears
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Why Do Some Zoos Smell Like Someone’s Smoking Weed? Just Ask The "Skunk Wolf"

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How Are Tornadoes Predicted When We Don't Fully Understand How They Form? We Asked The ExpertsA tornado forming over a field in Nebraska.

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How Are Tornadoes Predicted When We Don't Fully Understand How They Form? We Asked The ExpertsA tornado forming over a field in Nebraska.
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How Are Tornadoes Predicted When We Don't Fully Understand How They Form? We Asked The Experts

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Many People Have No Idea What Allspice Is Made From — And The Answer May Surprise YouA spice shop

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Many People Have No Idea What Allspice Is Made From — And The Answer May Surprise YouA spice shop
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Many People Have No Idea What Allspice Is Made From — And The Answer May Surprise You

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Lengui The One-Handed Gorilla Has Come Back From The Brink Of Death Twice. Now, She’s Defied The Odds Again By Giving Birth In The WildOne-handed western lowland gorilla cradling a newborn.

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Lengui The One-Handed Gorilla Has Come Back From The Brink Of Death Twice. Now, She’s Defied The Odds Again By Giving Birth In The WildOne-handed western lowland gorilla cradling a newborn.
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Lengui The One-Handed Gorilla Has Come Back From The Brink Of Death Twice. Now, She’s Defied The Odds Again By Giving Birth In The Wild

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Why Weren't There Any Marine Dinosaurs? A Newly Discovered Feature Of Spinosaurus Skulls May Give The Answerspinosaurus illustration showing the bone above the eye where the salt gland may have attached

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Why Weren't There Any Marine Dinosaurs? A Newly Discovered Feature Of Spinosaurus Skulls May Give The Answerspinosaurus illustration showing the bone above the eye where the salt gland may have attached
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Why Weren't There Any Marine Dinosaurs? A Newly Discovered Feature Of Spinosaurus Skulls May Give The Answer

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There's A Cave In North America Where Crystals Grow Up To 11.4 Meters – But Entering Is Extremely DangerousThe silhouette of a human is dwarfed by the towering crystals.

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There's A Cave In North America Where Crystals Grow Up To 11.4 Meters – But Entering Is Extremely DangerousThe silhouette of a human is dwarfed by the towering crystals.
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There's A Cave In North America Where Crystals Grow Up To 11.4 Meters – But Entering Is Extremely Dangerous

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This "Rainbow Island" Is A Geologist's Disneyland – Unfortunately, It's Right In The Middle Of The Strait Of Hormuzaerial view of Hormuz Island, a rocky island stained red by ocher

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This Rainbow Island Is A Geologist's Disneyland – Unfortunately, It's In The Middle Of The Strait Of Hormuz

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Extremely Rare C-Section On Critically Endangered Gorilla Successfully Delivers A Healthy Baby Boytwo doctors in PPE hold newborn gorilla baby

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Extremely Rare C-Section On Critically Endangered Gorilla Successfully Delivers A Healthy Baby Boytwo doctors in PPE hold newborn gorilla baby
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Extremely Rare C-Section On Critically Endangered Gorilla Successfully Delivers A Healthy Baby Boy

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Forget Crossing Oceans Or Traveling Pole To Pole – The World's Shortest Bird Migration Is A Measly 300 MetersA male grouse with impressive feathers and a red throat, on the slope of a hill.

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Forget Crossing Oceans Or Traveling Pole To Pole – The World's Shortest Bird Migration Is A Measly 300 MetersA male grouse with impressive feathers and a red throat, on the slope of a hill.
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Forget Crossing Oceans Or Traveling Pole To Pole – The World's Shortest Bird Migration Is A Measly 300 Meters

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The Tentacled Snake Exhibits One Of The Most Specialized Fish-Hunting Strategies Among Snakes, And It’s Seriously Coolunderside of snakes head as it goes against glass, you can see its two tentacles near the nose

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The Tentacled Snake Exhibits One Of The Most Specialized Fish-Hunting Strategies Among Snakes, And It’s Seriously Coolunderside of snakes head as it goes against glass, you can see its two tentacles near the nose
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The Tentacled Snake Exhibits One Of The Most Specialized Fish-Hunting Strategies Among Snakes, And It’s Seriously Cool

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Harvestmen Chowing Down On Frog Supper Reveal The Leggy Arachnids May Be Hunters As Well As Scavengerstwo image showing various instances of harvestmen and spiders eating frogs while on leaves

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Harvestmen Chowing Down On Frog Supper Reveal The Leggy Arachnids May Be Hunters As Well As Scavengerstwo image showing various instances of harvestmen and spiders eating frogs while on leaves
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Harvestmen Chowing Down On Frog Supper Reveal The Leggy Arachnids May Be Hunters As Well As Scavengers

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“Sploot Season” Has Arrived. Here's Why So Many Animals Do It, And Perhaps We Should Consider Itan orange cat lays with all its limbs sprawled on a cool tile pavement

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“Sploot Season” Has Arrived. Here's Why So Many Animals Do It, And Perhaps We Should Consider Itan orange cat lays with all its limbs sprawled on a cool tile pavement
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“Sploot Season” Has Arrived. Here's Why So Many Animals Do It, And Perhaps We Should Consider It

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In 1997-98, The Most Disastrous El Niño On Record Cost The World $5.7 Trillion And Killed ThousandsMae Sai, Chiang Rai , Thailand, 3 June 2025, Thai Myanmar border during construction of a flood barrier by the Army Engineer Corps. by both Thailand and Myanmar to prevent flooding

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In 1997-98, The Most Disastrous El Niño On Record Cost The World $5.7 Trillion And Killed ThousandsMae Sai, Chiang Rai , Thailand, 3 June 2025, Thai Myanmar border during construction of a flood barrier by the Army Engineer Corps. by both Thailand and Myanmar to prevent flooding
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In 1997-98, The Most Disastrous El Niño On Record Cost The World $5.7 Trillion And Killed Thousands

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“Pretty Cool If You Ask Me”: Perfectly Preserved 121-Million-Year-Old “Feather Dragon” Fossil Reveals New Species With Incredibly Long Tail FeathersA incredibly well preserved fossil bird with very long tail feathers on a pale rock.

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“Pretty Cool If You Ask Me”: Perfectly Preserved 121-Million-Year-Old “Feather Dragon” Fossil Reveals New Species With Incredibly Long Tail FeathersA incredibly well preserved fossil bird with very long tail feathers on a pale rock.
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“Pretty Cool If You Ask Me”: Perfectly Preserved 121-Million-Year-Old “Feather Dragon” Fossil Reveals New Species With Incredibly Long Tail Feathers

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Miyawaki Method: This Japanese System From The 1970s Claims It Can Grow A Lush Forest 10 Times Faster Than NormalA teeny forest around a Shinto shrine in Sasayama, Hyogo.
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Miyawaki Method: This Japanese System From The 1970s Claims It Can Grow A Lush Forest 10 Times Faster Than Normal

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In 1852, Surveyors Found Mount Everest To Be Exactly 29,000 Feet. They Added 2 Extra Feet So People Would Believe ThemMount Everest at sunset, with the peak glowing red.
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In 1852, Surveyors Found Mount Everest To Be Exactly 29,000 Feet. They Added 2 Extra Feet So People Would Believe Them

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The Longest Land Animal Migration Is A 1,200-Kilometer Round-Trip Through North AmericaCaribou foraging for lichens in the snow by Kyle Joly NPS
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The Longest Land Animal Migration Is A 1,200-Kilometer Round-Trip Through North America

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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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The World’s Last True Wild Horse Species Just Welcomed An Adorable New Foal In Major Conservation WinPrzewalski's horse foal standing in a forested area at the Bronx Zoo

The World’s Last True Wild Horse Species Just Welcomed An Adorable New Foal In Major Conservation Win

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Beautiful New Sea Slug Smaller Than A Grain Of Rice And Covered In Sesame Seed-Like Spots DiscoveredA feathery looking sea slug with a translucent white body with lots of black spots and small number of larger yellow spots.

Beautiful New Sea Slug Smaller Than A Grain Of Rice And Covered In Sesame Seed-Like Spots Discovered

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Seagrass “Clones” Actually Give Birth To Genetic Individuals, Carrying Offspring Until They’re Ready To Settlea small green seagrass seedling is still attached to a bigger seagrass plant

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How Did Plant Species Survive The Death of The Dinosaurs? By Doubling Down, Genetically Speaking

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Frozen Microbes From The Distant Past Threaten To Wake Up, Ready To Infect People, Plants, And Animalsa three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated image of three multidrug-resistant, Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria.

Frozen Microbes From The Distant Past Threaten To Wake Up, Ready To Infect People, Plants, And Animals

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Nickajack Cave, “The Bat Cave Miracle”, And Why Things Can Get Hairy When Hunting Giant Catfishthe cave entrance is half submerged in water

Nickajack Cave, “The Bat Cave Miracle”, And Why Things Can Get Hairy When Hunting Giant Catfish

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NOAA Issues A Stern Warning For 2026's El Niño, Stressing It Could Bring A Dangerous "Double Whammy"Stuck cars on a flooded city street in Sarasota, Florida.

NOAA Issues A Stern Warning For 2026's El Niño, Stressing It Could Bring A Dangerous "Double Whammy"

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Frozen For 6 Million Years, The Oldest Ice Ever Recovered Is Like A Prehistoric Time Capsule Of EarthRaising the Foro Drill in Allan Hills, Antarctica during the 2022-2023 season.

Frozen For 6 Million Years, The Oldest Ice Ever Recovered Is Like A Prehistoric Time Capsule Of Earth

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Meet The “Croc Witch,” A 212-Million-Year-Old Toothless Triassic Weirdo That Walked On Two LegsReconstruction of Labrujasuchus expectatus. It has a reptilian body with orange and brown striped pattern, walks on two legs with small arms and a long neck.

Meet The “Croc Witch,” A 212-Million-Year-Old Toothless Triassic Weirdo That Walked On Two Legs

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Scientists Just Found 12,000 Tiny Fossils That Expand Our Understanding Of The Origins Of Complex Lifemud core containing early eukaryote fossils

Scientists Just Found 12,000 Tiny Fossils That Expand Our Understanding Of The Origins Of Complex Life

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The World Is Running Out of Freshwater. Scientists Just Found A Vast Reserve Hiding Under The OceanThe sun rises over a cloudy Atlantic Ocean, as seen from the International Space Station on March 5, 2025.

The World Is Running Out of Freshwater. Scientists Just Found A Vast Reserve Hiding Under The Ocean

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What Would Happen If You Tried To Plug A Volcano With Concrete? It Could Make Things Far WorseVolcano about to erupt.

What Would Happen If You Tried To Plug A Volcano With Concrete? It Could Make Things Far Worse

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“Happy-Face” Spiders Were Thought Only To Exist In Hawaii. Now, A New Species Has Been Discovered 12,000 Kilometers AwayLeft: Full view of a female Theridion himalayana, a small spider with a mostly green body, except for a smiley face pattern on its abdomen. Right: A closer view of the smiley face pattern.

“Happy-Face” Spiders Were Thought Only To Exist In Hawaii. Now, A New Species Has Been Discovered 12,000 Kilometers Away

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“It Was Definitely An Unconventional Solution”: Mysterious Function Of Phallic Structures Deep In The Amazon Solved With The Help Of 40 Condomsa cicada tower stick out of the amazon's forest floor, another image shows a second tower with a condom wrapped over the top

“It Was Definitely An Unconventional Solution”: Mysterious Function Of Phallic Structures Deep In The Amazon Solved With The Help Of 40 Condoms

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