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With Long Life Comes Tiny Testicles For Bowhead Whalesbowhead whale peto's paradoxWith Long Life Comes Tiny Testicles For Bowhead Whalesbowhead whale peto's paradox

With Long Life Comes Tiny Testicles For Bowhead Whales

A genetic quirk gives the whales' cells time to heal before they duplicate, but it may have a negative impact on fertility.

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518-Million-Year-Old Ancient Armored Worm Is Ancestor Of Three Major Animal Groupswufengella

518-Million-Year-Old Ancient Armored Worm Is Ancestor Of Three Major Animal Groups

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Russian Gas Pipeline To Europe Mysteriously Springs Leak, Sparking Environmental FearsThe gas leak at Nord Stream 2 seen from the Defense F-16 interceptor on Bornholm

Russian Gas Pipeline To Europe Mysteriously Springs Leak, Sparking Environmental Fears

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Hurricane Hunters Are Flying Through Ian’s Powerful Winds To Get The Forecasts You Rely On – Here’s What Happens When The Plane Plunges Into The Eyewall Of A StormFlying to center of Tropical Storm IsaiasHurricane Hunters Are Flying Through Ian’s Powerful Winds To Get The Forecasts You Rely On – Here’s What Happens When The Plane Plunges Into The Eyewall Of A StormFlying to center of Tropical Storm Isaias
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Hurricane Hunters Are Flying Through Ian’s Powerful Winds To Get The Forecasts You Rely On – Here’s What Happens When The Plane Plunges Into The Eyewall Of A Storm

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About 200 Dead Whales Have Been Towed Out To Sea Off Tasmania – And What Happens Next Is A True Marvel Of Naturetwo pilot whales stranded on a beachAbout 200 Dead Whales Have Been Towed Out To Sea Off Tasmania – And What Happens Next Is A True Marvel Of Naturetwo pilot whales stranded on a beach
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About 200 Dead Whales Have Been Towed Out To Sea Off Tasmania – And What Happens Next Is A True Marvel Of Nature

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Mexico Earthquake Sets Off Desert Tsunami In Death Valley Cave Containing World’s Rarest FishThe Devil's Hole pool is normally very calm, but here is stirred up by a seiche triggered by an earthquake in Mexico 1,500 kilometers awayMexico Earthquake Sets Off Desert Tsunami In Death Valley Cave Containing World’s Rarest FishThe Devil's Hole pool is normally very calm, but here is stirred up by a seiche triggered by an earthquake in Mexico 1,500 kilometers away
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Mexico Earthquake Sets Off Desert Tsunami In Death Valley Cave Containing World’s Rarest Fish

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World’s Biggest Carbon Capture Project Has Set Its Sight On WyomingAn artist's impression of Project Bison's modular carbon capture units in Wyoming.World’s Biggest Carbon Capture Project Has Set Its Sight On WyomingAn artist's impression of Project Bison's modular carbon capture units in Wyoming.
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World’s Biggest Carbon Capture Project Has Set Its Sight On Wyoming

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China Reveals World's First Cloned Arctic Wolf PupA small and fluffy wolf pupChina Reveals World's First Cloned Arctic Wolf PupA small and fluffy wolf pup
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China Reveals World's First Cloned Arctic Wolf Pup

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New Lakes Are Springing Up In Alaska, Bubbling With A Nasty Suprisebubbles breaking the surface of a murky green lakeNew Lakes Are Springing Up In Alaska, Bubbling With A Nasty Suprisebubbles breaking the surface of a murky green lake
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New Lakes Are Springing Up In Alaska, Bubbling With A Nasty Suprise

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Rejoice: Californian Supreme Court Confirms That Bumblebees Are FishA bumblebee, badly photoshopped to look like it is swimming underwater, with armbands.Rejoice: Californian Supreme Court Confirms That Bumblebees Are FishA bumblebee, badly photoshopped to look like it is swimming underwater, with armbands.
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Rejoice: Californian Supreme Court Confirms That Bumblebees Are Fish

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"Diver's Cemetery": Why This Is The Deadliest Place In The World To DiveBlue Hole is a popular diving location on east Sinai, a few kilometres north of Dahab, Egypt on the coast of the Red Sea."Diver's Cemetery": Why This Is The Deadliest Place In The World To DiveBlue Hole is a popular diving location on east Sinai, a few kilometres north of Dahab, Egypt on the coast of the Red Sea.
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The Climate Crisis Is Literally Changing The Color Of Our PlanetLooking down on two paddleboarders on the clear bright blue waters of lake tahoe The Climate Crisis Is Literally Changing The Color Of Our PlanetLooking down on two paddleboarders on the clear bright blue waters of lake tahoe
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The Climate Crisis Is Literally Changing The Color Of Our Planet

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Experience The Deadly Heart Of Hurricane Fiona With Incredible Saildrone FootageBig waves and dark skies inside Hurricane Fiona Experience The Deadly Heart Of Hurricane Fiona With Incredible Saildrone FootageBig waves and dark skies inside Hurricane Fiona
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Experience The Deadly Heart Of Hurricane Fiona With Incredible Saildrone Footage

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Quieter Raccoons Make For The Most Cunning Trash Can Criminalsraccoon crimeQuieter Raccoons Make For The Most Cunning Trash Can Criminalsraccoon crime
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Connecticut Becomes One Of First States To Require Teaching Climate Change By Lawschool teacherConnecticut Becomes One Of First States To Require Teaching Climate Change By Lawschool teacher
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Connecticut Becomes One Of First States To Require Teaching Climate Change By Law

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Tradition Dictates King Charles Will Now Be Served A Bloodsucking Parasite PieKing Charles looking worried, as if he's just seen a particularly gross-looking pie.Tradition Dictates King Charles Will Now Be Served A Bloodsucking Parasite PieKing Charles looking worried, as if he's just seen a particularly gross-looking pie.
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A New Baby Island Has Just Been Born In The Pacific OceanA vast plume of steam and ash blows away from a newly formed volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean.A New Baby Island Has Just Been Born In The Pacific OceanA vast plume of steam and ash blows away from a newly formed volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean.
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A New Baby Island Has Just Been Born In The Pacific Ocean

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Have You Ever Received Cat Scratches During Cuddle Time? There’s A Name For It.Brown tabby cat in a kitchen with a rolling pin and a pizza dough with a chef’s hat on glaring
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Have You Ever Received Cat Scratches During Cuddle Time? There’s A Name For It.

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Lakes Can Explode And Kill Thousands Of People In An Instant, Now Scientists Are Worried About One In Particularlake nyos exploding lake
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Lakes Can Explode And Kill Thousands Of People In An Instant, Now Scientists Are Worried About One In Particular

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The USS Stein Monster: In 1978, A Massive Creature Attacked A Navy Frigate, Shredding Parts Of Its HullA black and white etching of a giant squidlike creature dragging a ship down in stormy seas
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IFLScience The Big Questions: How Do We Know When A Species Is Extinct?

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IFLScience The Big Questions: Is The Future Of Farming Underwater?The IFLScience podcast logo, a siolhouette of aperson wearing headphones and the headphones are questions
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IFLScience The Big Questions: Is The Future Of Farming Underwater?

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“Parachuting”, “Waving”, And The “Snap-Trap” — Octopus Hunting Techniques Revealed By High Speed CamerasPale brown octopus reaches out one limb to catch a shrimp

“Parachuting”, “Waving”, And The “Snap-Trap” — Octopus Hunting Techniques Revealed By High Speed Cameras

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Fact Check: Are Avocados Really Named After Testicles?Avocados

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Scientists Begin To Understand Mystery Gene In Soil Virusesscientists in white overalls digging up soil

Scientists Begin To Understand Mystery Gene In Soil Viruses

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Ozone Layer Is Getting Healthier And May Totally Recover In DecadesA view of Earth from space showing the planet surrounded by a blue atmosphere.

Ozone Layer Is Getting Healthier And May Totally Recover In Decades

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Scientists Want To Refreeze Polar Regions By Pumping Dust Into AtmosphereSunset as a airplane flies over the Khibiny Mountains in the Kola Peninsula in European Russia's Far North in the Arctic Polar Circle

Scientists Want To Refreeze Polar Regions By Pumping Dust Into Atmosphere

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Brace Yourself For An Exceptionally Rare "Triple-Dip" La Niña Weather PhaseThe Sun's glint reflects off the Pacific Ocean shadowed by a line of cumulonimbus clouds as the International Space Station orbited over the International Date Line about 253 miles above the Earth's surface.

Brace Yourself For An Exceptionally Rare "Triple-Dip" La Niña Weather Phase

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Fly Into The Sky With The Winners Of The Drone Photo Awards 2022crocodiles hippo

Fly Into The Sky With The Winners Of The Drone Photo Awards 2022

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What The Heck Are Those Giant Mounds On The Great Salt Lake?An above view of one of the mirabilite mounds with a notebook shown for scale.

What The Heck Are Those Giant Mounds On The Great Salt Lake?

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Ant-Slayer Spiders Are Extremely Successful Hunting AcrobatsBlack and white photo of an spider in mid air over an ant, the silk line between them is just visable

Ant-Slayer Spiders Are Extremely Successful Hunting Acrobats

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Eight-Year-Old’s Observation Leads To Major Discovery About Ant-Wasp CollaborationAn aphaenogaster ant dragging a wasp gall containing larvae of a wasp that has worked out how to manipulate not only oak leaves to make the gall, but ants to bring it back to their nest

Eight-Year-Old’s Observation Leads To Major Discovery About Ant-Wasp Collaboration

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