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Did You Know That Some Narwhals Have Two Tusks? It’s Rare, But It Happensa narwhale skull with two tusksDid You Know That Some Narwhals Have Two Tusks? It’s Rare, But It Happensa narwhale skull with two tusks

Did You Know That Some Narwhals Have Two Tusks? It’s Rare, But It Happens

Narwhals, eh? Just love to keep you guessing.

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Human Trash Is Expediting Rock Formation, From Millions Of Years To Just 35New type of rock made from industrial waste found in Derwent Howe, West Cumbria

Human Trash Is Expediting Rock Formation, From Millions Of Years To Just 35

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Where Have All The Penis Bones Gone? We’re Looking At You, Natural History Museumssome kind of skeletonised pinniped on display in a museum with its penis bone in-situ, floating under its pelvis

Where Have All The Penis Bones Gone? We’re Looking At You, Natural History Museums

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Trees Reported To Align Their Electrical Signals During A Solar Eclipse As If Cooperatingview of dolomite mountains with spruce forest in the foreground

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Trees Reported To Align Their Electrical Signals During A Solar Eclipse As If Cooperatingview of dolomite mountains with spruce forest in the foreground
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Trees Reported To Align Their Electrical Signals During A Solar Eclipse As If Cooperating

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Yosemite National Park Warns Visitors To Keep Distance From One Of Its “Most Dangerous” Animalsphotograph of three mule deer grazing in a field at Yosemite National Park

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Yosemite National Park Warns Visitors To Keep Distance From One Of Its “Most Dangerous” Animalsphotograph of three mule deer grazing in a field at Yosemite National Park
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Yosemite National Park Warns Visitors To Keep Distance From One Of Its “Most Dangerous” Animals

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In 2024, "Extinct" Sihek Were Released Into The Wild After 36 Years. Now, They’ve Laid Their First Eggsa sihek in a tree with orangey head and blueish back feathers

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In 2024, "Extinct" Sihek Were Released Into The Wild After 36 Years. Now, They’ve Laid Their First Eggsa sihek in a tree with orangey head and blueish back feathers
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In 2024, "Extinct" Sihek Were Released Into The Wild After 36 Years. Now, They’ve Laid Their First Eggs

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Newly Discovered Electricity-Conducting Bacteria Could Inspire A New Wave Of Bioelectronicsmicroscope image (black and white) of a long, filamentous bacterium

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Newly Discovered Electricity-Conducting Bacteria Could Inspire A New Wave Of Bioelectronicsmicroscope image (black and white) of a long, filamentous bacterium
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Newly Discovered Electricity-Conducting Bacteria Could Inspire A New Wave Of Bioelectronics

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Australia Has More Camels Than Egypt Or India, And That’s Not GoodCamels in Australia infront of Uluru

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Australia Has More Camels Than Egypt Or India, And That’s Not GoodCamels in Australia infront of Uluru
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Australia Has More Camels Than Egypt Or India, And That’s Not Good

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Ronan The Remarkable Beat-Keeping Sea Lion Has Better Rhythm Than Some Humansa close up of ronan the sea lion looking up towards the sun, light across her face makes her look famous (she is)

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Ronan The Remarkable Beat-Keeping Sea Lion Has Better Rhythm Than Some Humansa close up of ronan the sea lion looking up towards the sun, light across her face makes her look famous (she is)
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Ronan The Remarkable Beat-Keeping Sea Lion Has Better Rhythm Than Some Humans

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Pet Cat Found On 16th Century Shipwreck Is Earliest Evidence Of Them In The USTwo cats sit in blue wooden sailing boats.

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Pet Cat Found On 16th Century Shipwreck Is Earliest Evidence Of Them In The USTwo cats sit in blue wooden sailing boats.
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Pet Cat Found On 16th Century Shipwreck Is Earliest Evidence Of Them In The US

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Super Eggs, Jesus Sharks, And The Surprising Diversity Of Reproductive Strategies Among The Chondrichthyesan australian ghostshark with silvery flesh and a strange nose

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Super Eggs, Jesus Sharks, And The Surprising Diversity Of Reproductive Strategies Among The Chondrichthyesan australian ghostshark with silvery flesh and a strange nose
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Super Eggs, Jesus Sharks, And The Surprising Diversity Of Reproductive Strategies Among The Chondrichthyes

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Bugpocalypse: Why Insect Populations Tanked By 75 Percent In Just 30 YearsA close up photo of a scarab beetle on the ground among some grass. The beetle has a beautiful blue shimmer to its otherwise dark carapace. It is seen standing on some earth with some large strands of grass in view.

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Bugpocalypse: Why Insect Populations Tanked By 75 Percent In Just 30 YearsA close up photo of a scarab beetle on the ground among some grass. The beetle has a beautiful blue shimmer to its otherwise dark carapace. It is seen standing on some earth with some large strands of grass in view.
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Bugpocalypse: Why Insect Populations Tanked By 75 Percent In Just 30 Years

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Up To 20,000 Hectares Of Land Around Chernobyl Can Now Be Safely Farmed AgainChernobyl nuclear power plant cooling tower, abandoned city Pripyat, Chernobyl, Ukraine.

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Up To 20,000 Hectares Of Land Around Chernobyl Can Now Be Safely Farmed AgainChernobyl nuclear power plant cooling tower, abandoned city Pripyat, Chernobyl, Ukraine.
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Up To 20,000 Hectares Of Land Around Chernobyl Can Now Be Safely Farmed Again

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World’s First Mission To "Weigh" All Of Earth's Forests From Space Launchesan image of Earth from space with the satellite and its massive antenna point downwards. A patch of forest is seen zoomed in with a strip of satellite map passing under the canopy.

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World’s First Mission To "Weigh" All Of Earth's Forests From Space Launchesan image of Earth from space with the satellite and its massive antenna point downwards. A patch of forest is seen zoomed in with a strip of satellite map passing under the canopy.
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World’s First Mission To "Weigh" All Of Earth's Forests From Space Launches

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Yellowstone Supervolcano Has A Magma "Lid" That Could Be Thwarting EruptionA view of a large blue pond with colorful soil in yellow and orange at its edges

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Yellowstone Supervolcano Has A Magma "Lid" That Could Be Thwarting EruptionA view of a large blue pond with colorful soil in yellow and orange at its edges
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Yellowstone Supervolcano Has A Magma "Lid" That Could Be Thwarting Eruption

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How To Peel A Boiled Egg, According To Sciencesomeone making a real hash of peeling a boiled egg

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How To Peel A Boiled Egg, According To Sciencesomeone making a real hash of peeling a boiled egg
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How To Peel A Boiled Egg, According To Science

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Mammoth DNA Is Showing How These Ice Age Giants Evolved Over Past 1 Million Years3D rendered illustration of Mammoth in a winter landscape.

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Mammoth DNA Is Showing How These Ice Age Giants Evolved Over Past 1 Million Years3D rendered illustration of Mammoth in a winter landscape.
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Mammoth DNA Is Showing How These Ice Age Giants Evolved Over Past 1 Million Years

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What Is Phoresy? When Animals Hitch A Ride On Other Animalsmites riding on a beetle
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What Is Phoresy? When Animals Hitch A Ride On Other Animals

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Remembering Félicette, The Only Cat To Ever Go To SpaceFélicette, the First Cat in Space
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Remembering Félicette, The Only Cat To Ever Go To Space

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Boston Harbor Has One Of The World's Ultra-Rare Sunken Drumlin FieldsSatellite image of the drumlin islands in the Boston Harbor Islands National & State Park.
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Boston Harbor Has One Of The World's Ultra-Rare Sunken Drumlin Fields

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What Is The Magnetic North Pole?A man holding a compass
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What Is The Magnetic North Pole?

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What Is The Most Intelligent Snake Species?Two snakes head to head
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What Is The Most Intelligent Snake Species?

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What Is Inside A Turtle's Shell?A turtle close up
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What Is Inside A Turtle's Shell?

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T. Rex Handbags Could Soon Be A Thing In Surprising Approach To Cruelty-Free Leathert rex on yellow background holding a red handbag

T. Rex Handbags Could Soon Be A Thing In Surprising Approach To Cruelty-Free Leather

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Around 700 Koalas Have Been Sniped From Helicopters In Victoria, Sparking ControversyWild Koalas and its baby in a tree near Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia

700 Koalas Have Been Sniped From Helicopters In Victoria, Sparking Controversy

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All Roses Were Once Yellow. Fortunately For Poets, That ChangedRosa persica was once known as Hulthemia persica, when it was thought to belong to a different genus from other roses, something now reconsidered.

All Roses Were Once Yellow. Fortunately For Poets, That Changed

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The Truth Behind The Viral Blue Java BananaBlue java bananas bunch.

The Truth Behind The Viral Blue Java Banana

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Trump Wants A New "Gold Rush" With Deep-Sea Mining, Despite Huge Environmental RisksAn NOAA submarine deep sea explorer looking around the atlantic ocean seabed and corals.

Trump Wants A New "Gold Rush" With Deep-Sea Mining, Despite Huge Environmental Risks

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First Giant Virus To Be Found In Finland Is A Whopper, Twice The Size Of InfluenzaTwo images showing the giant virus. The one on the left is a black and white microscope image of the virus, showing five of the virus particles which have hexagonal shapes surrounding a larger blog. Next to this is a digital reconstruction of the virus showing its shape as well as a cross section of its interior.

First Giant Virus To Be Found In Finland Is A Whopper, Twice The Size Of Influenza

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The "Weird And Weak" La Niña Is Over And Earth Has Slipped Into The Neutral ZoneThe International Space Station orbits above a cloudy Pacific Ocean – the domain of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) –in April 2022.

The "Weird And Weak" La Niña Is Over And Earth Has Slipped Into The Neutral Zone

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Eastern US And Europe Set To Feel The Sting Of A "Major Disruption" To Polar VortexPolar vortex typically encircles the Arctic, but here see in early March 2025 it has broke down and been pushed off the pole toward Northern Europe

Eastern US And Europe Set To Feel The Sting Of A "Major Disruption" To Polar Vortex

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World’s First Known Fossilized Pangolin Tracks May Have Been Discovered In South Africatop-down view of a fossilized pangolin trackway; the footprints appear as divots in the rock

World’s First Known Fossilized Pangolin Tracks May Have Been Discovered In South Africa

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Supersized Dinosaur-Eating Crocodiles Kept Re-evolving Each Time They Had A ChanceArtist's reconstruction of a late Cretaceous waterway with two Deinosochus waiting for a dinosaur to come down to feed.

Supersized Dinosaur-Eating Crocodiles Kept Re-evolving Each Time They Had A Chance

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Uturuncu: The "Zombie" Volcano In Bolivia That Refuses To Dieat sunset, the volcano Uturuncu, which means "jaguar" in the Quechua language, stands at height of 6,008 metres (19,711 feet) in southwestern Bolivia.

Scientists Uncover Mysteries Of Uturuncu, A "Zombie" Volcano In Bolivia

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Our Blue Oceans Were Once Green And Their Fate Could Be Purple Or RedThe waters off the Satsunan Archipelago, Kyushu may resemble those of the Earth 2.4 billion years ago, thanks to the ferric iron from nearby volcanic vents.

Our Blue Oceans Were Once Green And Their Fate Could Be Purple Or Red

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Mutation Found Among Bed Bugs For The First Time Could Explain Why They're So Damn Successfula red bed bug on a white linen

Mutation Found Among Bed Bugs For The First Time Could Explain Why They're So Damn Successful

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Newly Discovered “Bone Collector” Caterpillar Wears The Bodies Of Its Prey Like A Serial KillerTwo bone collector caterpillars in captivity sporting pieces of the insects they have eaten.

Newly Discovered “Bone Collector” Caterpillar Wears The Bodies Of Its Prey Like A Serial Killer

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