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Tail-Breathing Killifish Can Travel 6,000 Times Their Body Length On Landa killifish on land using its tail to leap and breathe thanks to blood near the surface of its skin

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Tail-Breathing Killifish Can Travel 6,000 Times Their Body Length On Landa killifish on land using its tail to leap and breathe thanks to blood near the surface of its skin
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Tail-Breathing Killifish Can Travel 6,000 Times Their Body Length On Land

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Why Does Snow Sometimes Look Blue?A scene showing snow thick on the ground with a few plants poking up through but instead of bright white the snow has a blue tint

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Why Does Snow Sometimes Look Blue?A scene showing snow thick on the ground with a few plants poking up through but instead of bright white the snow has a blue tint
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Why Does Snow Sometimes Look Blue?

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Brand New Magic Mushroom Species Suggests Shrooms Reached America On Bison PoopNew species of magic mushrooms

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Brand New Magic Mushroom Species Suggests Shrooms Reached America On Bison PoopNew species of magic mushrooms
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Brand New Magic Mushroom Species Suggests Shrooms Reached America On Bison Poop

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Snowflake Obsidian: An Aptly Festive Rock Forged By Earth's Volcanic EruptionsSnowflake Obsidian. a black rock with white snowflake pattersn on.

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Snowflake Obsidian: An Aptly Festive Rock Forged By Earth's Volcanic EruptionsSnowflake Obsidian. a black rock with white snowflake pattersn on.
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Snowflake Obsidian: An Aptly Festive Rock Forged By Earth's Volcanic Eruptions

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Slingshot Spiders Hurl Webs At Nearly 1 Meter Per Second To Catch Buzzing Preya slingshot spider with its web pulled so that its ready to strike like a slingshot

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Slingshot Spiders Hurl Webs At Nearly 1 Meter Per Second To Catch Buzzing Preya slingshot spider with its web pulled so that its ready to strike like a slingshot
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Slingshot Spiders Hurl Webs At Nearly 1 Meter Per Second To Catch Buzzing Prey

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These Ferns Can “Evolve Backward”, Challenging Our Assumptions About Plant EvolutionThe deer fern (Struthiopteris spicant)

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These Ferns Can “Evolve Backward”, Challenging Our Assumptions About Plant EvolutionThe deer fern (Struthiopteris spicant)
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These Ferns Can “Evolve Backward”, Challenging Our Assumptions About Plant Evolution

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First Dissection Of The World’s Rarest Whale Reveals They Have 9 Stomach Chambersa large light grey and dark grey spade tooth whale on a trolley surrounded by people about to perform a dissection

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First Dissection Of The World’s Rarest Whale Reveals They Have 9 Stomach Chambersa large light grey and dark grey spade tooth whale on a trolley surrounded by people about to perform a dissection
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First Dissection Of The World’s Rarest Whale Reveals They Have 9 Stomach Chambers

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4.4-Billion-Year-Old Piece Of Earth Is One Of The Oldest Things We’ve Ever FoundMicroscope image of a small, blue zircon crystal found in Jack Hills, Australia, confirmed to be the oldest bit of the Earth's crust.

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4.4-Billion-Year-Old Piece Of Earth Is One Of The Oldest Things We’ve Ever FoundMicroscope image of a small, blue zircon crystal found in Jack Hills, Australia, confirmed to be the oldest bit of the Earth's crust.
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4.4-Billion-Year-Old Piece Of Earth Is One Of The Oldest Things We’ve Ever Found

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What Is Lake-Effect Snow?Taken from the MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite, this true color image of Great Lakes was taken on January 10, 2022 at 18:20 (UTC) 1:20 PM in local time. This image shows Lake effect snow ocurring in every lake in the Great Lakes.

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What Is Lake-Effect Snow?Taken from the MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite, this true color image of Great Lakes was taken on January 10, 2022 at 18:20 (UTC) 1:20 PM in local time. This image shows Lake effect snow ocurring in every lake in the Great Lakes.
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What Is Lake-Effect Snow?

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A23a, World's Largest And Oldest Iceberg, Is On The Move In Antarctica's Southern OceanA23a seen from the RRS Sir David Attenborough ship in late 2023.

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A23a, World's Largest And Oldest Iceberg, Is On The Move In Antarctica's Southern OceanA23a seen from the RRS Sir David Attenborough ship in late 2023.
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A23a, World's Largest And Oldest Iceberg, Is On The Move In Antarctica's Southern Ocean

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New Sponge-Like Biomass Foam Found To Soak Up 99.9 Percent Of Microplasticsplastic trash in the ocean

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New Sponge-Like Biomass Foam Found To Soak Up 99.9 Percent Of Microplasticsplastic trash in the ocean
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New Sponge-Like Biomass Foam Found To Soak Up 99.9 Percent Of Microplastics

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China Completes 3,046-Kilometer "Great Green Wall" Along Its Biggest DesertTaklimakan Desert in China's Xinjiang region, sometimes called the Sea of Death, is 337,000 square kilometers (130,000 square miles) in size.

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China Completes 3,046-Kilometer "Great Green Wall" Along Its Biggest DesertTaklimakan Desert in China's Xinjiang region, sometimes called the Sea of Death, is 337,000 square kilometers (130,000 square miles) in size.
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China Completes 3,046-Kilometer "Great Green Wall" Along Its Biggest Desert

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The Grand Canyon Was Once A Mountain Range Formed By Earth's Plates CrumplingColorado River flows through the Grand Canyon

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The Grand Canyon Was Once A Mountain Range Formed By Earth's Plates CrumplingColorado River flows through the Grand Canyon
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The Grand Canyon Was Once A Mountain Range Formed By Earth's Plates Crumpling

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Admire Azerbaijan’s Beautiful "Candy Cane Mountains" – Just Don't Lick ThemRed and white striped surface on a tall mountain

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Admire Azerbaijan’s Beautiful "Candy Cane Mountains" – Just Don't Lick ThemRed and white striped surface on a tall mountain
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Admire Azerbaijan’s Beautiful "Candy Cane Mountains" – Just Don't Lick Them

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How Many Times Can A Lizard Can Regrow Its Tail?an anole lizard with a fork-ended tail

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How Many Times Can A Lizard Can Regrow Its Tail?an anole lizard with a fork-ended tail
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How Many Times Can A Lizard Can Regrow Its Tail?

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