nature
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Why North America Looks The Way It Does
Video: North America is a beautiful continent that’s home to the Rockies, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and many more natural wonders. How did that happen? How did North America get its shape? The answer is that it took millions and millions of years. Over the history of Earth, tectonic plates have smashed into each…
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Stop Trying To Rescue Wild Animals By Yourself
Two seal pups died in separate incidents recently after humans — no doubt well-meaning individuals! — attempted to help them, thinking they were abandoned or distressed. Say it with me now, slowly and loudly: Stop trying to rescue wild animals by yourself.
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Guy Documents New Jerk Species Of Butterfly
My university transcripts will plainly show I nearly failed Latin (twice), but if there’s one thing I’m certain of it’s that Adelotypa annulifera translates roughly to “ungrateful dickhead”. That’s the scientific name of an Amazonian butterfly whose behaviours have finally been documented by entomologist Phil Torres and biologist Aaron Pomerantz, revealing what horrendous manners these…
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These Disgusting Worms Can Basically Survive In Hell
Colorado is home to Sulphur Cave, which is exactly what it sounds like: A big, nasty hole that’s filled with deadly gas and dripping with acid. Nothing should live there. It’s basically hell on Earth. But then, scientists discovered clumps of limnodrilus sulphurensis wriggling around on the cave floor.