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120-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Trackway Lost For 70 Years Rediscovered, Revealing Giant Species Roamed As Far As MongoliaTwo parallel trackways of large sauropods overlap and extend toward the upper left of the image, forming a series of large, oval-shaped depressions. The overlapping pattern indicates that one individual followed the exact path of another.120-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Trackway Lost For 70 Years Rediscovered, Revealing Giant Species Roamed As Far As MongoliaTwo parallel trackways of large sauropods overlap and extend toward the upper left of the image, forming a series of large, oval-shaped depressions. The overlapping pattern indicates that one individual followed the exact path of another.

120-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Trackway Lost For 70 Years Rediscovered, Revealing Giant Species Roamed As Far As Mongolia

A gathering of large theropods in one place is a notable event anywhere, but particularly somewhere they were not known to have existed.

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Gentoo Penguins Are Four Species Not One, Says Research Proposing The First Entirely New Penguin Species In 100 YearsA gentoo penguin dives off an iceburg into the water, captured at the perfect moment before the bird hits the surface.

Gentoo Penguins Are Four Species Not One, Says Research Proposing The First Entirely New Penguin Species In 100 Years

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Giant Squid Have Been Detected Living In Unexpected Waters For First Time In 25 Yearsa 3d rendering of a giant squid

Giant Squid Have Been Detected Living In Unexpected Waters For First Time In 25 Years

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Stunning Amber Fossil Of A 99-Million-Year-Old Firefly Is The Oldest Of Its Kind, Glowing As Far Back As The Dinosaursthe front and back of a luminous beetle locked in an amber fossil

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Stunning Amber Fossil Of A 99-Million-Year-Old Firefly Is The Oldest Of Its Kind, Glowing As Far Back As The Dinosaursthe front and back of a luminous beetle locked in an amber fossil
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Stunning Amber Fossil Of A 99-Million-Year-Old Firefly Is The Oldest Of Its Kind, Glowing As Far Back As The Dinosaurs

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Scientists Put A Dead Salmon Inside An fMRI Scanner And Watched Its Brain Activity – Then Something Very Strange HappenedSalmon and fish on ice for sale at a market.

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Scientists Put A Dead Salmon Inside An fMRI Scanner And Watched Its Brain Activity – Then Something Very Strange HappenedSalmon and fish on ice for sale at a market.
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Scientists Put A Dead Salmon Inside An fMRI Scanner And Watched Its Brain Activity – Then Something Very Strange Happened

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The Largest Volcanic Eruption This Century Cleaned Up After Itself. And We Could Learn To Do The SameThe ash cloud from the Tonga eruption was it's most obvious outcome, but withing that cloud what was happening to the methane might be the bigger story

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The Largest Volcanic Eruption This Century Cleaned Up After Itself. And We Could Learn To Do The SameThe ash cloud from the Tonga eruption was it's most obvious outcome, but withing that cloud what was happening to the methane might be the bigger story
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The Largest Volcanic Eruption This Century Cleaned Up After Itself. And We Could Learn To Do The Same

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The Only Known Bird Without Wings – Not Even Vestigial Ones – Was Also The Tallest To Ever Livea giant eagle swoops down on two fleeing moa

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The Only Known Bird Without Wings – Not Even Vestigial Ones – Was Also The Tallest To Ever Livea giant eagle swoops down on two fleeing moa
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The Only Known Bird Without Wings – Not Even Vestigial Ones – Was Also The Tallest To Ever Live

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“It Was Definitely An Unconventional Solution”: Mysterious Function Of Phallic Structures Deep In The Amazon Solved With The Help Of 40 Condomsa cicada tower stick out of the amazon's forest floor, another image shows a second tower with a condom wrapped over the top

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“It Was Definitely An Unconventional Solution”: Mysterious Function Of Phallic Structures Deep In The Amazon Solved With The Help Of 40 Condomsa cicada tower stick out of the amazon's forest floor, another image shows a second tower with a condom wrapped over the top
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“It Was Definitely An Unconventional Solution”: Mysterious Function Of Phallic Structures Deep In The Amazon Solved With The Help Of 40 Condoms

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American Bison Rose From Near-Extinction To Being The USA’s National Mammal. 10 Years On, They Might Face A New ThreatAn american bison stands in a field looking at the camera with other bison around. There are fall tress in the background.

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American Bison Rose From Near-Extinction To Being The USA’s National Mammal. 10 Years On, They Might Face A New ThreatAn american bison stands in a field looking at the camera with other bison around. There are fall tress in the background.
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American Bison Rose From Near-Extinction To Being The USA’s National Mammal. 10 Years On, They Might Face A New Threat

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How Did Plant Species Survive The Death of The Dinosaurs? By Doubling Down, Genetically Speakingforest path with yellow flowers and trees

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How Did Plant Species Survive The Death of The Dinosaurs? By Doubling Down, Genetically Speakingforest path with yellow flowers and trees
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How Did Plant Species Survive The Death of The Dinosaurs? By Doubling Down, Genetically Speaking

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The US Has The Most Volcanoes Of Any Country In The World – But Why Does It Have So Many?Two bright orange lava fountains erupting against a dark sky

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The US Has The Most Volcanoes Of Any Country In The World – But Why Does It Have So Many?Two bright orange lava fountains erupting against a dark sky
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The US Has The Most Volcanoes Of Any Country In The World – But Why Does It Have So Many?

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David Attenborough Turns 100 – Here's Why He's Become Even More Iconic In Old AgeDavid Attenbourough smiling as he holds up a tiny harvest mouse to his face

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David Attenborough Turns 100 – Here's Why He's Become Even More Iconic In Old AgeDavid Attenbourough smiling as he holds up a tiny harvest mouse to his face
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David Attenborough Turns 100 – Here's Why He's Become Even More Iconic In Old Age

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Boquila Trifoliolata Is The Only Plant We Know Of Capable Of Mimetic Polymorphism – It Can Disguise Its Leaves Differently, Depending Where It GrowsBoquila trifoliolata leaves.

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Boquila Trifoliolata Is The Only Plant We Know Of Capable Of Mimetic Polymorphism – It Can Disguise Its Leaves Differently, Depending Where It GrowsBoquila trifoliolata leaves.
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Boquila Trifoliolata Is The Only Plant We Know Of Capable Of Mimetic Polymorphism – It Can Disguise Its Leaves Differently, Depending Where It Grows

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Flamingos Are Pink Because Of What They Eat – Could We Make Them Blue?A James' flamingo flying with bright pink features, black wing edges and a funky yellow bill.

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Flamingos Are Pink Because Of What They Eat – Could We Make Them Blue?A James' flamingo flying with bright pink features, black wing edges and a funky yellow bill.
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Flamingos Are Pink Because Of What They Eat – Could We Make Them Blue?

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Watch A Fish Swim Backwards In Rare Footage Offering A Glimpse Into Life 260 Meters Down On The Arctic SeafloorSnailfish swims in front of the camera at 260 meters deep, the red light illuminates its body.

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Watch A Fish Swim Backwards In Rare Footage Offering A Glimpse Into Life 260 Meters Down On The Arctic SeafloorSnailfish swims in front of the camera at 260 meters deep, the red light illuminates its body.
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Watch A Fish Swim Backwards In Rare Footage Offering A Glimpse Into Life 260 Meters Down On The Arctic Seafloor

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Dinosaurs May Have Been Sneakily Existing For 10 Million Years With No Clear Fossilspaleoart of several different dinosaurs at a watering hole

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Dinosaurs May Have Been Sneakily Existing For 10 Million Years With No Clear Fossilspaleoart of several different dinosaurs at a watering hole
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Dinosaurs May Have Been Sneakily Existing For 10 Million Years With No Clear Fossils

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Amazing Videos Of “Rainbow Clouds” Over Indonesia Aren’t AI – Earth Really Is Just That Cool Sometimesa lenticular cloud lit up by a rainbow of colors, in a phenomenon known as cloud iridescence.

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Amazing Videos Of “Rainbow Clouds” Over Indonesia Aren’t AI – Earth Really Is Just That Cool Sometimesa lenticular cloud lit up by a rainbow of colors, in a phenomenon known as cloud iridescence.
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Amazing Videos Of “Rainbow Clouds” Over Indonesia Aren’t AI – Earth Really Is Just That Cool Sometimes

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Why Don't Humans Have A Mating Season? Actually, Wait – Do We Have A Mating Season??shot from the end of a bed with two people's feet sticking out under the duvet; there's a window behind the bed showing a wintry snowy scene

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Why Don't Humans Have A Mating Season? Actually, Wait – Do We Have A Mating Season??shot from the end of a bed with two people's feet sticking out under the duvet; there's a window behind the bed showing a wintry snowy scene
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Why Don't Humans Have A Mating Season? Actually, Wait – Do We Have A Mating Season??

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Triple Divide Peak: The USA's Unusual Mountain Where Water Can Flow Into Three OceansA photo showing the mountain in the distance, framed between the silhouettes of two closer mountains. Triple Divide Peak is bathed in the soft reddish light of an early morning, while the rest of the landscape is shadowy. The sky surrounding it is clear, with some low reddish/purple clouds gathering just behind it.
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This Is The Only Place On Earth Where Water Can Flow Into One Of Three Different Oceans

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Where Did The Myth That Oil Is Made Of Dinosaurs Come From? Because Scientists Never Said It WasCrude oil being held in hands.
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Where Did The Myth That Oil Is Made Of Dinosaurs Come From? Because Scientists Never Said It Was

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Why Do Giraffes Have Dark Purple Tongues?A giraffe looks at the camera with its dark colored tongue out
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Why Do Giraffes Have Dark Purple Tongues?

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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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A Killer Hippo Is Heading To Cinemas This Summer, But Are Hippos Really That Deadly?A photo showing a hippo raising its head out of the water. It's mouth is completely open, revealing its spear-like tusks. There are a few other hippos visible in the background but they are mostly submerged and blurry.

A Killer Hippo Is Heading To Cinemas This Summer, But Are Hippos Really That Deadly?

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Rare Endangered Lemur Twins Born At Bronx Zoo, And They’re Oh So Small And FluffyTwo young collared brown lemurs clinging on to their mother.

Rare Endangered Lemur Twins Born At Bronx Zoo, And They’re Oh So Small And Fluffy

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In 1906, A “Frankenstein Plant" Hidden In Kew’s Herbarium Was Exposed As A Hoax. Not A New Species, But Two Stuck Togethercarefully constructed composite specimen made up of the flowers of Quesnelia liboniana inserted into the rosette of Vriesea poenulata

In 1906, A “Frankenstein Plant" Hidden In Kew’s Herbarium Was Exposed As A Hoax. Not A New Species, But Two Stuck Together

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The World’s Oldest Forest Is In A Small Corner Of England And Dates Back 390 Million YearsA cross-section of a fossilied fallen tree stump dating back to the Devonian.

The World’s Oldest Forest Is In A Small Corner Of England And Dates Back 390 Million Years

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NASA's New NISAR Satellite System Is So Powerful It Is Showing How Fast Mexico City Is SinkingA skyline photo showing Mexico city sprawling out. In the center of the image is a tall tower building surrounded by smaller, flat roofed buildings.

NASA's New NISAR Satellite System Is So Powerful It Is Showing How Fast Mexico City Is Sinking

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Mysterious Amazonian "Dark Earth" Allows Trees To Grow 6 Times Larger And May Help Combat Climate ChangeAn aerial photo looking down on a bend in the Amazon river. The U bend shape is surrounded by verdant thick forest which extends into the far distance of the photo.

Mysterious Amazonian "Dark Earth" Allows Trees To Grow 6 Times Larger And May Help Combat Climate Change

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Radical Proposal To Dam The Bering Strait Could Save Vital AMOC Ocean Current From Collapse – Or Make It WorseThe Bering Strait from space. A hyperthetical dam would use the Diomede Islands in the middle to shift angles without being weakened

Radical Proposal To Dam The Bering Strait Could Save Vital AMOC Ocean Current From Collapse – Or Make It Worse

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El Niño 2026 Could Rear Its Head As Early As May, Says WMO – And It Could Be A Monster OnePacific Ocean, sun set on the horizon

El Niño 2026 Could Rear Its Head As Early As May, Says WMO – And It Could Be A Monster One

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Fossil That Gathered Dust For 75 Years Revealed As Triassic Crocodile Relative With A Powerful BiteArtists depiction of Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa and Hesperosuchus agilis approaching a dead dinosaur at the side of a river.

Fossil That Gathered Dust For 75 Years Revealed As Triassic Crocodile Relative With A Powerful Bite

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Cretaceous Octopuses Were Kraken-Like Giants That Reached Up To 19 Meters And May Have Feasted On MosasaursAn artist's impression of Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, the largest octopus ever found, larger than the mosasaurs with which it shared the Cretaceous oceans.

Cretaceous Octopuses Were Kraken-Like Giants That Reached Up To 19 Meters And May Have Feasted On Mosasaurs

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The World's Oldest River Has Been Active For 300 To 400 Million YearsFinke River slinks through the Glen Helen Gorge in the Northern Territory of Australia.

The World's Oldest River Has Been Active For 300 To 400 Million Years

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Lake Kivu: The Lake That Might Explode At Any Pointview of Lake Kivu from high altitude

Lake Kivu: The Lake That Might Explode At Any Point

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The Bizarre Life Cycle Of These Mites Includes Sibling Mating, Cannibalism, And Death – All In Just 4 DaysA colorful image of lots of different species of mites on a black background.

The Bizarre Life Cycle Of These Mites Includes Sibling Mating, Cannibalism, And Death – All In Just 4 Days

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300 Million Years Ago, Insects Were Enormous. That Stopped – And We’re Probably Wrong About WhyA scientist with a life-size model of Meganeuropsis permiana. They don't make them like that anymore, but the textbook reasons for that appears to be wrong.

300 Million Years Ago, Insects Were Enormous. That Stopped – And We’re Probably Wrong About Why

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