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We Finally Know How Jonathan The Tortoise, The World's Oldest Land Animal, Is Still Alive And Kicking At 194Jonathan (left) seen here in St Helena during his wasted youth.We Finally Know How Jonathan The Tortoise, The World's Oldest Land Animal, Is Still Alive And Kicking At 194Jonathan (left) seen here in St Helena during his wasted youth.

We Finally Know How Jonathan The Tortoise, The World's Oldest Land Animal, Is Still Alive And Kicking At 194

DNA shows that Jonathan is an exceptional individual from an exceptional species.

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How Queer Is The Animal World? We Haven't Looked As Hard As We Could, But Nature Is Still More Diverse Than You ThinkTwo laysan albatrosses, close up with their bills crossed looking directly at each other

How Queer Is The Animal World? We Haven't Looked As Hard As We Could, But Nature Is Still More Diverse Than You Think

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Incredibly Rare “Jodi” The Nanotyrannus At The Center Of Heated T. Rex Debate Goes Up For Auction At Sotheby’sA large theropod dinosaur skeleton mounted as if it is walking.

Incredibly Rare “Jodi” The Nanotyrannus At The Center Of Heated T. Rex Debate Goes Up For Auction At Sotheby’s

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A Man Was Looking For A Place To Camp On Google Maps. Instead, He Made A 390-Million-Year-Old DiscoveryA spherical structure in Quebec, Canada. Labels show a crater rim, and a burned area from an ancient meteor impact.

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A Man Was Looking For A Place To Camp On Google Maps. Instead, He Made A 390-Million-Year-Old DiscoveryA spherical structure in Quebec, Canada. Labels show a crater rim, and a burned area from an ancient meteor impact.
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A Man Was Looking For A Place To Camp On Google Maps. Instead, He Made A 390-Million-Year-Old Discovery

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When Did Animals First Evolve? New Evidence From Mongolia Suggests It Could Be As Far Back As 800 Million Years AgoA reconstruction of early animal life, showing weird feather and tube-like forms.

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When Did Animals First Evolve? New Evidence From Mongolia Suggests It Could Be As Far Back As 800 Million Years AgoA reconstruction of early animal life, showing weird feather and tube-like forms.
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When Did Animals First Evolve? New Evidence From Mongolia Suggests It Could Be As Far Back As 800 Million Years Ago

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Adorable, Rare Andean "Ghost" Cat Captured On Camera Trap Proves Conservation Measures Can WorkA small andean cat on a log at a sanctuary.

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Adorable, Rare Andean "Ghost" Cat Captured On Camera Trap Proves Conservation Measures Can WorkA small andean cat on a log at a sanctuary.
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Adorable, Rare Andean "Ghost" Cat Captured On Camera Trap Proves Conservation Measures Can Work

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Meet "Yak X," A Newly Discovered Extinct Species Found In Siberia's Famed Denisova CaveExcavations in the South Chamber of Denisova Cave, 2020.

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Meet "Yak X," A Newly Discovered Extinct Species Found In Siberia's Famed Denisova CaveExcavations in the South Chamber of Denisova Cave, 2020.
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Meet "Yak X," A Newly Discovered Extinct Species Found In Siberia's Famed Denisova Cave

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From Sharks Fleeing The Aquarium To Elephants On High Alert – How Do Animals Know An Earthquake Is Coming?silhouetted people looking at a shark in a huge aquarium tank

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From Sharks Fleeing The Aquarium To Elephants On High Alert – How Do Animals Know An Earthquake Is Coming?silhouetted people looking at a shark in a huge aquarium tank
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From Sharks Fleeing The Aquarium To Elephants On High Alert – How Do Animals Know An Earthquake Is Coming?

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Earth Shifted Quickly On Its Axis Four Times In Last 320 Million Years, Including When Dinosaurs ReignedEarth from space with the sun rise peeking out behind

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Earth Shifted Quickly On Its Axis Four Times In Last 320 Million Years, Including When Dinosaurs ReignedEarth from space with the sun rise peeking out behind
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Earth Shifted Quickly On Its Axis Four Times In Last 320 Million Years, Including When Dinosaurs Reigned

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In 1964, The CIA Attached Microphones To Cats And Tried To Train Them To Eavesdrop On Their Enemies. It Didn't Quite Go To PlanAn illustration of a cat looking through a pair of binoculars.

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In 1964, The CIA Attached Microphones To Cats And Tried To Train Them To Eavesdrop On Their Enemies. It Didn't Quite Go To PlanAn illustration of a cat looking through a pair of binoculars.
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In 1964, The CIA Attached Microphones To Cats And Tried To Train Them To Eavesdrop On Their Enemies. It Didn't Quite Go To Plan

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The Oldest Non-Polar Ice In The World Has Been Frozen For At Least 128,000 Years, Long Before The Ice Age EndedFlags up a tibet china mountain

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The Oldest Non-Polar Ice In The World Has Been Frozen For At Least 128,000 Years, Long Before The Ice Age EndedFlags up a tibet china mountain
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The Oldest Non-Polar Ice In The World Has Been Frozen For At Least 128,000 Years, Long Before The Ice Age Ended

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Gorgeous Time-Lapse Satellite Photos Record A Volcano Erupting For The First Time In Nearly 500 Years And Spilling Lava Across The LandscapeThe satellite image shows the two volcanoes elevated against the surrounding landscape. It is represented as a colour grade of dark tones to lighter oranges, depending on the surface being observed. The lightest areas are of the lava, which can bee seen flowing down from the middle of the image towards the bottom right and also to the top right where it is forming a pool.

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Gorgeous Time-Lapse Satellite Photos Record A Volcano Erupting For The First Time In Nearly 500 Years And Spilling Lava Across The LandscapeThe satellite image shows the two volcanoes elevated against the surrounding landscape. It is represented as a colour grade of dark tones to lighter oranges, depending on the surface being observed. The lightest areas are of the lava, which can bee seen flowing down from the middle of the image towards the bottom right and also to the top right where it is forming a pool.
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Gorgeous Time-Lapse Satellite Photos Record A Volcano Erupting For The First Time In Nearly 500 Years And Spilling Lava Across The Landscape

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The Supercharged El Niño Is Having An Unusual Impact On Wildlife Across The WorldUnderwater view of scalloped hammerhead sharks swimming in the waters off Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

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The Supercharged El Niño Is Having An Unusual Impact On Wildlife Across The WorldUnderwater view of scalloped hammerhead sharks swimming in the waters off Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
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The Supercharged El Niño Is Having An Unusual Impact On Wildlife Across The World

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Banana Blossom Bathtubs, Fish-Faced Birds, And Wig-Wearing Reptiles: The Best And Most Ridiculous Of The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Finalists 2026a bird has a bath in a petal full of water

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Banana Blossom Bathtubs, Fish-Faced Birds, And Wig-Wearing Reptiles: The Best And Most Ridiculous Of The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Finalists 2026a bird has a bath in a petal full of water
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Banana Blossom Bathtubs, Fish-Faced Birds, And Wig-Wearing Reptiles: The Best And Most Ridiculous Of The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Finalists 2026

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Fossil Long Hailed As The "World’s Oldest Reptile" Turns Out Isn’t Actually Reptilian At AllThe species Westlothiana lizziae was considered the original lizard based on an external examination of the rocks that contain it, but X-rays reveal something different

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Fossil Long Hailed As The "World’s Oldest Reptile" Turns Out Isn’t Actually Reptilian At AllThe species Westlothiana lizziae was considered the original lizard based on an external examination of the rocks that contain it, but X-rays reveal something different
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Fossil Long Hailed As The "World’s Oldest Reptile" Turns Out Isn’t Actually Reptilian At All

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Shark Spotted Prowling The Streets Of New Jersey During Nor’easter Floodingdorsal fin of great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, False Bay, South Africa, Atlantic Ocean

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Shark Spotted Prowling The Streets Of New Jersey During Nor’easter Floodingdorsal fin of great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, False Bay, South Africa, Atlantic Ocean
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Shark Spotted Prowling The Streets Of New Jersey During Nor’easter Flooding

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Interactive Globe Shows Where You'd End Up If You Dug Straight Through The EarthThe ThroughEarth Shows Where You'd End Up If You Dug Straight Through The Earth

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Interactive Globe Shows Where You'd End Up If You Dug Straight Through The EarthThe ThroughEarth Shows Where You'd End Up If You Dug Straight Through The Earth
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Interactive Globe Shows Where You'd End Up If You Dug Straight Through The Earth

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The World’s Smallest Crocodile Lives In A Cave, With Orange Skin So Thin You Can See Its Skeleton – Life In “AFRICA: Earth’s Wild Home”orange crocodile next to a grey-brown crocodile

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The World’s Smallest Crocodile Lives In A Cave, With Orange Skin So Thin You Can See Its Skeleton – Life In “AFRICA: Earth’s Wild Home”orange crocodile next to a grey-brown crocodile
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The World’s Smallest Crocodile Lives In A Cave, With Orange Skin So Thin You Can See Its Skeleton – Life In “AFRICA: Earth’s Wild Home”

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Gangkhar Puensum: The Highest Unclimbed Mountain In The World May Never Be Summitedmountain top in the distance with a tree in the foreground
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Gangkhar Puensum: The Highest Unclimbed Mountain In The World May Never Be Summited

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10 Million Years Ago, Miniature Whales Swam In The Largest Lake Ever To Have Existed On Earth: The Megalake “Paratethys”animals in megalake paratethys, there's a whale, seal, and elephant-like creatures
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10 Million Years Ago, Miniature Whales Swam In The Largest Lake Ever To Have Existed On Earth: The Megalake “Paratethys”

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One Of Nature's Greatest Spectacles Sees Thousands Of Groupers Spawn Under A Full Moon. How Do They Know When To Gather, And Why At A Full Moon?lots of fish gather above corals
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One Of Nature's Greatest Spectacles Sees Thousands Of Groupers Spawn Under A Full Moon. How Do They Know When To Gather, And Why At A Full Moon?

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Could You Survive Being Sucked Into A Tornado?a woman backs away from a tornado
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Could You Survive Being Sucked Into A Tornado?

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Video: Which Animal Has The Largest Brain?A brains butt
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Video: Which Animal Has The Largest Brain?

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Video: The Ordovician Mass Extinctionan organism from the Ordovician time
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Video: The Ordovician Mass Extinction

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Yes, A Shark Can Hear You Scream. Scientists Just Proved They Can Hear Up To 70 Meters Awaya woman underwater screaming near sharks

Yes, A Shark Can Hear You Scream. Scientists Just Proved They Can Hear Up To 70 Meters Away

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One Of The World’s Most Unusual Humpback Whale Populations Sings A Song Unique To The Arabian Sea. Now, Scientists Are Saying It's A New Subspeciesa whale breaches out of the water

One Of The World’s Most Unusual Humpback Whale Populations Sings A Song Unique To The Arabian Sea. Now, Scientists Are Saying It's A New Subspecies

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Gene-Edited Bananas That Take Longer To Go Brown Could Be Coming To A Supermarket Near YouYellow Fresh bananas in cardboard boxes on big market

Gene-Edited Bananas That Take Longer To Go Brown Could Be Coming To A Supermarket Near You

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Beautiful Flowers Bloom Over The World's Driest Hot Desert Thanks To The Record-Smashing Super El NiñoA vast field of purple wildflowers covering the Atacama Desert during the rare desert bloom season in Chile

Beautiful Flowers Bloom Over The World's Driest Hot Desert Thanks To The Record-Smashing Super El Niño

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The World's Largest Cluster Of Gigantic 18-MW Offshore Wind Turbines Goes Live In The South China SeaOffshore Wind Farm tubines with Silhouette of doves flying in front

The World's Largest Cluster Of Gigantic 18-MW Offshore Wind Turbines Goes Live In The South China Sea

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This Tropical Island Has Glaciers Of "Eternal Snow." It May Lose Them As Soon As 2028A google earth view of Puncak Jaya with the small patch of remaining glacier in the foreground and rainforest stretching away into the distance.

This Tropical Island Has Glaciers Of "Eternal Snow." It May Lose Them As Soon As 2028

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The Record-Breaking "Super El Niño" Just Keeps Getting Gnarlier, With Warnings Of Over 451,000 Deaths WorldwideHuge isolated Monsoon storm at sunset

The Record-Breaking "Super El Niño" Just Keeps Getting Gnarlier, With Warnings Of Over 451,000 Deaths Worldwide

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The Latest Planetary Health Check Shows We’ve Breached 7 Of Earth’s 9 Planetary BoundariesA picture of planet Earth from space showing clouds swirling with wildlife smoke.

The Latest Planetary Health Check Shows We’ve Breached 7 Of Earth’s 9 Planetary Boundaries

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Exceptionally Well-Preserved Feathered Dinosaur Reveals More About The Evolution Of FlightReconstruction image of Norellraptor on the right size looking like magpie with for wings. On the left a close up photo of the bones showing very long sharp talons.

Exceptionally Well-Preserved Feathered Dinosaur Reveals More About The Evolution Of Flight

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Ancient Plesiosaur Vomit Reveals The Marine Reptiles Came Into Shore To Barf Up Shellfish RemainsA pleisosaur with blue striped body vomits in shallow water

Ancient Plesiosaur Vomit Reveals The Marine Reptiles Came Into Shore To Barf Up Shellfish Remains

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Ocean Floor “Pools Of Death” Could Be Key To Explaining The Origins Of Life On Earth, And Possibly Further AfieldAlthough once known as "black pools of death", brine pools are blue when light can reach them, and they can contain remarkably concentrated metal deposits

Ocean Floor “Pools Of Death” Could Be Key To Explaining The Origins Of Life On Earth, And Possibly Further Afield

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Why We Still Don’t Truly Know The Exact Depth Of The Ocean's Deepest PointA remotely operated vehicle, Deep Discoverer, explores the Mariana Trench at a depth of 6,000 meters (3.7 miles).

Why We Still Don’t Truly Know The Exact Depth Of The Ocean's Deepest Point

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Newly Discovered Spider Is Basically A Mechanical Engineer, Building Spring-Loaded Snares To Catapult Its PreyA spider creates a cone of silk on a leaf, luring the ant to bite the cone.

Newly Discovered Spider Is Basically A Mechanical Engineer, Building Spring-Loaded Snares To Catapult Its Prey

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New World Screwworm Detected In US For First Time Since 1966, Despite Efforts To Stop It Crossing The BorderSingle NWS larva placed next to a U.S. nickel to illustrate the size comparison.

New World Screwworm Detected In US For First Time Since 1966, Despite Efforts To Stop It Crossing The Border

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