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Scientists Gave Belugas A Mirror To See How They Behaved. What Happened Next Suggests These Animals Have A “Sense Of Self”a beluga whale up close it has white flesh, a round melon on its head, and small black eyes

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Scientists Gave Belugas A Mirror To See How They Behaved. What Happened Next Suggests These Animals Have A “Sense Of Self”a beluga whale up close it has white flesh, a round melon on its head, and small black eyes
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Scientists Gave Belugas A Mirror To See How They Behaved. What Happened Next Suggests These Animals Have A “Sense Of Self”

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A Volcano That Slept For 100,000 Years Never Actually Went Extinct, Suggesting Other Quiet Volcanoes Could Be More Dangerous Than We ThoughtThe youngest eruption of the Methana volcano (brown) flowing into the sea, with limestone in the background.

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A Volcano That Slept For 100,000 Years Never Actually Went Extinct, Suggesting Other Quiet Volcanoes Could Be More Dangerous Than We ThoughtThe youngest eruption of the Methana volcano (brown) flowing into the sea, with limestone in the background.
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A Volcano That Slept For 100,000 Years Never Actually Went Extinct, Suggesting Other Quiet Volcanoes Could Be More Dangerous Than We Thought

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The World's Longest-Living Vertebrate Can Reach 400 Years Old. Scientists Just Found Two More Clues As To Howgreenland shark in greenish water

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The World's Longest-Living Vertebrate Can Reach 400 Years Old. Scientists Just Found Two More Clues As To Howgreenland shark in greenish water
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The World's Longest-Living Vertebrate Can Reach 400 Years Old. Scientists Just Found Two More Clues As To How

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NASA's Perseverance Rover Enters The "Wild West" And Finds Some Of The Oldest Rocks On MarsMars Perseverance rover selfie on the Red Planet.

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NASA's Perseverance Rover Enters The "Wild West" And Finds Some Of The Oldest Rocks On MarsMars Perseverance rover selfie on the Red Planet.
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Enters The "Wild West" And Finds Some Of The Oldest Rocks On Mars

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The Sunlight That Is Reaching Us Now Is Thousands Of Years Old (If Not A Lot Older!) But Took Under 9 Minutes To Travel To EarthAn ultraviolet image of the Sun.

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The Sunlight That Is Reaching Us Now Is Thousands Of Years Old (If Not A Lot Older!) But Took Under 9 Minutes To Travel To EarthAn ultraviolet image of the Sun.
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The Sunlight That Is Reaching Us Now Is Thousands Of Years Old (If Not A Lot Older!) But Took Under 9 Minutes To Travel To Earth

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Bones Of 37 People Found In A Giant Stone Jar Points To A Mysterious Burial Ritual In The JungleSite 75, a giant jar filled with dozens of human remains, viewed from above during excavations.

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Bones Of 37 People Found In A Giant Stone Jar Points To A Mysterious Burial Ritual In The JungleSite 75, a giant jar filled with dozens of human remains, viewed from above during excavations.
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Bones Of 37 People Found In A Giant Stone Jar Points To A Mysterious Burial Ritual In The Jungle

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Orcas Munching On Moose, Fishing Wolves, And Bloodthirsty Ground Squirrels: 3 Times Animals Ate In Ways We Didn’t ExpectFrom left to right: a California ground squirrel; an orca; a gray wolf.

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Orcas Munching On Moose, Fishing Wolves, And Bloodthirsty Ground Squirrels: 3 Times Animals Ate In Ways We Didn’t ExpectFrom left to right: a California ground squirrel; an orca; a gray wolf.
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Orcas Munching On Moose, Fishing Wolves, And Bloodthirsty Ground Squirrels: 3 Times Animals Ate In Ways We Didn’t Expect

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Online Tool Lets You See How Far You Have Traveled Around The Galaxy Since You Were Born, And The Time Dilation Effects You Have EncounteredDiagram of the Sun and planets' motion through space.

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Online Tool Lets You See How Far You Have Traveled Around The Galaxy Since You Were Born, And The Time Dilation Effects You Have EncounteredDiagram of the Sun and planets' motion through space.
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Online Tool Lets You See How Far You Have Traveled Around The Galaxy Since You Were Born, And The Time Dilation Effects You Have Encountered

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SpaceX’s Upgraded Starship V3, The Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built, Will Take To The Sky Tomorrow – Watch It LiveStarship on the launchpad with the sun rising right behind it

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SpaceX’s Upgraded Starship V3, The Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built, Will Take To The Sky Tomorrow – Watch It LiveStarship on the launchpad with the sun rising right behind it
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SpaceX’s Upgraded Starship V3, The Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built, Will Take To The Sky Tomorrow – Watch It Live

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Idaho's Rocks Are Filled With Silver. Now We Finally Know How It Got ThereA landscape photograph showing the Coeur d'Alene River flowing through Silver Valley, Idaho.

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Idaho's Rocks Are Filled With Silver. Now We Finally Know How It Got ThereA landscape photograph showing the Coeur d'Alene River flowing through Silver Valley, Idaho.
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Idaho's Rocks Are Filled With Silver. Now We Finally Know How It Got There

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Humpback Whales Swimming 15,000 Kilometers Between Australia And Brazil Break Known Migration Distance Record In "Exceptional Events"A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) performs a peduncle throw — a behaviour in which the animal hurls the rear portion of its body out of the water — off the coast of Australia.

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Humpback Whales Swimming 15,000 Kilometers Between Australia And Brazil Break Known Migration Distance Record In "Exceptional Events"A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) performs a peduncle throw — a behaviour in which the animal hurls the rear portion of its body out of the water — off the coast of Australia.
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Humpback Whales Swimming 15,000 Kilometers Between Australia And Brazil Break Known Migration Distance Record In "Exceptional Events"

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The Most Expensive River In The World Is A Gemstone Hunter's Paradisehand holding jade stones of mixed colours

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The Most Expensive River In The World Is A Gemstone Hunter's Paradisehand holding jade stones of mixed colours
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The Most Expensive River In The World Is A Gemstone Hunter's Paradise

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“No Further Research Is Needed”: 50 Years Of Experiments Reveals Deep-Sea Mining At Vents And Seamounts Risks Species Extinctionred anemone with frilly edge on the dark sea bed

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“No Further Research Is Needed”: 50 Years Of Experiments Reveals Deep-Sea Mining At Vents And Seamounts Risks Species Extinctionred anemone with frilly edge on the dark sea bed
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“No Further Research Is Needed”: 50 Years Of Experiments Reveals Deep-Sea Mining At Vents And Seamounts Risks Species Extinction

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An Accidental Eden: Chornobyl Has Become A Wildlife Refuge For Extremely Rare Animals, Including Przewalski's HorsesPrzewalski´s horse near the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (April 2020).

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An Accidental Eden: Chornobyl Has Become A Wildlife Refuge For Extremely Rare Animals, Including Przewalski's HorsesPrzewalski´s horse near the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (April 2020).
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An Accidental Eden: Chornobyl Has Become A Wildlife Refuge For Extremely Rare Animals, Including Przewalski's Horses

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"Science Is Always Evolving": Earth's Earliest "Animals" Revealed To Be Something Completely Different By Stunning Fossil ReanalysisVisible to the naked eye, fossilized bacteria or algae were found in an ancient seabed that emerged in the current Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul

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"Science Is Always Evolving": Earth's Earliest "Animals" Revealed To Be Something Completely Different By Stunning Fossil ReanalysisVisible to the naked eye, fossilized bacteria or algae were found in an ancient seabed that emerged in the current Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul
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"Science Is Always Evolving": Earth's Earliest "Animals" Revealed To Be Something Completely Different By Stunning Fossil Reanalysis

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