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People Are Picking Carnivorous Penis Plants And Cambodia's Ministry Of Environment Isn't Happy

Put the penis plants down, please....

18 May 2022

People Are Picking Carnivorous Penis Plants And Cambodia's Ministry Of Environment Isn't Happy

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Review: “Prehistoric Planet” Combines Pioneering Science And Hollywood Effects For Incredible Portal To The Past

If you've ever wanted to watch a duck-billed giant use its salad-scoops-for-hands to scritch away th...

18 May 2022

Review: “Prehistoric Planet” Combines Pioneering Science And Hollywood Effects For Incredible Portal To The Pa...

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The First Animals Were Adapting, Not Dying, Before The Cambrian Explosion

A decline of diversity near the end of the Ediacaran era was a result of specialization and internal...

17 May 2022

The First Animals Were Adapting, Not Dying, Before The Cambrian Explosion

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Child’s 130,000-Year-Old Tooth Is First Evidence Of Mysterious Denisovans In Southeast Asia

A tooth believed to belong to a mysterious “sister species” of humans — the Denisovans — has been di...

17 May 2022

Child’s 130,000-Year-Old Tooth Is First Evidence Of Mysterious Denisovans In Southeast Asia

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Cats Can Learn Each Other's Names, Not Just Their Own, Study Claims

Cats can associate the names given to their feline housemates with their images, and show their surp...

16 May 2022

Cats Can Learn Each Other's Names, Not Just Their Own, Study Claims

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Footage Shows The Infamous Universe 25 Experiment That Turned Into A Mouse Apocalypse

All their needs were met. Then it all fell apart....

16 May 2022

Footage Shows The Infamous Universe 25 Experiment That Turned Into A Mouse Apocalypse

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Lots Of Frogs And Toads Mate With Things They Shouldn't, From Boots To Corpses

Misdirected amplexing amphibians of the world, beware: your sexual antics are now the subject of a p...

16 May 2022

Lots Of Frogs And Toads Mate With Things They Shouldn't, From Boots To Corpses

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Microorganisms, Perhaps Still Alive, Discovered In 830-Million-Year-Old Rock Salt

If life is able to linger within Earth-bound halite, then who’s to say it can’t within a Martian sam...

16 May 2022

Microorganisms, Perhaps Still Alive, Discovered In 830-Million-Year-Old Rock Salt

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Three-Month-Old Baby Giraffe Receives Specialized Braces So She Can Walk

Three-month-old Msituni required help from specialists to be able to walk....

16 May 2022

Three-Month-Old Baby Giraffe Receives Specialized Braces So She Can Walk

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'Prehistoric Planet' Exclusive: We Talk *That* Twirling Carnotaurus Scene With Consultant Darren Naish

Little arms but a big heart make for a courtship display you won't forget....

16 May 2022

"Prehistoric Planet" Exclusive: We Talk *That* Twirling Carnotaurus Scene With Consultant Darren Naish

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'Bum-Breathing' Turtle Feared Extinct In Parts Of Australia But DNA Confirms Alive And Well

A turtle that absorbs oxygen through its cloaca – known colloquially as a bum-breathing turtle – was...

12 May 2022

"Bum-Breathing" Turtle Feared Extinct In Parts Of Australia But DNA Confirms Alive And Well

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Complete Pregnant Ichthyosaur Among Incredibly Well-Preserved Fossils Revealed By Retreating Glacier

The glacier revealed the most abundant and well-preserved early Cretaceous ichthyosaur deposit in th...

12 May 2022

Complete Pregnant Ichthyosaur Among Incredibly Well-Preserved Fossils Revealed By Retreating Glacier

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The First Plants Have Been Grown In Lunar Soil – But It's Not Easy

Plants have been grown in lunar soil for the first time – although soil brought back by Apollo 17 wa...

12 May 2022

The First Plants Have Been Grown In Lunar Soil – But It's Not Easy

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These Bats Pretend To Be Hornets When Predatory Owls Start Swooping In

It's the first known example of acoustic Batesian mimicry in mammals....

12 May 2022

These Bats Pretend To Be Hornets When Predatory Owls Start Swooping In

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Emperor Penguins Could Go Extinct In 30 Years Due To The Climate Crisis

All of the chicks born to the second-largest colony of emperor penguins have died for the last three...

11 May 2022

Emperor Penguins Could Go Extinct In 30 Years Due To The Climate Crisis

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Six-Year-Old Boy Finds Massive Megalodon Tooth, Impressing Scientists

Nope, we're not jealous. Not at all....

11 May 2022

Six-Year-Old Boy Finds Massive Megalodon Tooth, Impressing Scientists

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An Artist Placed Goldfish In Blenders And Asked Visitors To Turn Them On – They Did

The piece was intended to force people into a "battle with their conscience", according to its creat...

11 May 2022

An Artist Placed Goldfish In Blenders And Asked Visitors To Turn Them On – They Did

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Researchers Screamed At Rats For 3 Weeks, Turns Out It Causes Fertility Issues

Stressed-out rats have a diminished ovarian reserve and decreased fertility...

11 May 2022

Researchers Screamed At Rats For 3 Weeks, Turns Out It Causes Fertility Issues

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Migrating Sea Turtles Actually Have A Pretty Poor Sense Of Direction

Research shows they only recognize something's off once they're already miles off course....

11 May 2022

Migrating Sea Turtles Actually Have A Pretty Poor Sense Of Direction

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Family Thinks They Have Rescued A Puppy, Quickly Finds Out They Are Mistaken

There were several quite pointy clues....

09 May 2022

Family Thinks They Have Rescued A Puppy, Quickly Finds Out They Are Mistaken

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