nature
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Here’s A Lightning Bolt Striking And Destroying A Tree
Video: Alternative headline: Tree takes a lightning strike and is somehow still standing? I don’t know who the actual winner is here. The lightning bolt that struck the tree and ripped half of the trunk away while flooring all of its branches, or the tree that takes the bolt’s best shot and hangs in there…
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Watch The Horrifying Spectacle Of Three Million Bats Going Night Hunting
Video: Bats are fascinating creatures — both from the point of scientific research and their place in the canon of the horror genre as spooky creatures of the night. So whether you’re a science person or a horror person, this shot of millions of bats streaming into the sky is either great, or great and…
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The US NIH Is Retiring All Of Its Research Chimpanzees
The US National Institutes of Health has announced that it’s bringing its chimpanzee testing programme to an entire halt, sending its 50 remaining primates to sanctuaries.
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The Cool Trick Beetles Use To Breathe Underwater Like Scuba Divers
You see that bubble attached to the beetle? That’s basically an air tank that the beetle uses so that it can breathe underwater. Because they’re so small, they can use water’s surface tension to trap air in bubbles on their body so they can swim under water without having to constantly come up for air.…