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Having A White Christmas? Be On The Lookout For Hair Ice And Frost Flowershair ice growing on a log, it is made of very fine strands of ice so it looks like silky white hair

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Having A White Christmas? Be On The Lookout For Hair Ice And Frost Flowershair ice growing on a log, it is made of very fine strands of ice so it looks like silky white hair
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Having A White Christmas? Be On The Lookout For Hair Ice And Frost Flowers

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Over 3,000 Billion Liters Of Water Flooded Out Of A Glacial Lake In Just 18 DaysIcebergs floating in the blue water of Scoresby Sound, the world’s largest fjord.

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Over 3,000 Billion Liters Of Water Flooded Out Of A Glacial Lake In Just 18 DaysIcebergs floating in the blue water of Scoresby Sound, the world’s largest fjord.
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Over 3,000 Billion Liters Of Water Flooded Out Of A Glacial Lake In Just 18 Days

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Found Some Weird Yellow Goo On A Tree? It Might Be “Witch’s Butter”a yellow brain-looking fungus on a branch, it's witch's butter

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Found Some Weird Yellow Goo On A Tree? It Might Be “Witch’s Butter”a yellow brain-looking fungus on a branch, it's witch's butter
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Found Some Weird Yellow Goo On A Tree? It Might Be “Witch’s Butter”

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Watch Thirsty Rattlesnakes Drink Rainwater From The Heads Of Their NeighborsTwo rattlesnakes drink water off the head of a third rattle snake. All are grey and brown with patterns on their scales and all are under a small rocky overhang.

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Watch Thirsty Rattlesnakes Drink Rainwater From The Heads Of Their NeighborsTwo rattlesnakes drink water off the head of a third rattle snake. All are grey and brown with patterns on their scales and all are under a small rocky overhang.
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"The Blob" Kills 4 Million Seabirds, The Largest Single-Species Mortality Event In Modern Historya photo showing lots of murres before devastating die off event caused by the blob, now the same cliffs are very empty

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"The Blob" Kills 4 Million Seabirds, The Largest Single-Species Mortality Event In Modern Historya photo showing lots of murres before devastating die off event caused by the blob, now the same cliffs are very empty
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"The Blob" Kills 4 Million Seabirds, The Largest Single-Species Mortality Event In Modern History

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Flat-Earthers Travel To Antarctica To Test Theories, But Are Quickly HumbledAn illustration of flat Earth in space.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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