Science and reality
The stargazer spends its entire life looking like it just walked in on something...unseemly.
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The beautiful bearded vulture feeds almost exclusively on skeletal fragments.
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A floating robot and a helpful armada of quadcopters join the effort to rescue shipwrecked migrants off the coast of Lesvos
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Figs play host to a battle between two remarkable insects: a pollinator wasp and its enemy, a parasitic wasp with a metal-reinforced drill for a bum.
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That Hawaiian sand between your toes isn't just ground-up rock. In fact, very little of it is. The vast majority came out of a parrotfish.
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May I introduce the charming, fantastically camouflaged pygmy seahorse.
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New research reveals that face mites evolved along with humans into at least four distinct lineages, hitching a ride across the world as humans migrated.
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Welcome to Harlequin Beetle Airlines, where the skies aren’t so much friendly as they are sexually awkward.
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More and more governments and institutions are fighting global climate change by pulling their money out of carbon-emitting businesses.
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True to its name, the mimic octopus impersonates a variety of other animals on the fly, morphing from an octopus to a banded sole to a lionfish to a sea snake.
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