scavengers
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Scavengers Reign Is Getting a Second Chance It Shouldn’t Have to Ask For
Every once in a while, pockets of the internet collectively choose to put full weight behind reviving a show that was quite well-liked and got cancelled after a season or more. Jericho, Community, and Young Justice are just a handful of examples, and the newest show to join those ranks is last year’s animated sci-fi…
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Let’s Get Ready to Jiggle: Fat Bear Week Is Here Again to Soothe Your Soul
It’s time once again to pay tribute to the utmost of ursines. That’s right, it’s yet another annual instalment of Fat Bear Week. People will get the chance to vote for 12 of the plumpest brown bears living at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska all through next week. The contestants include grizzled…
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NYC Is Looking for Someone Tough Enough to Vanquish the City’s Rat Army
New York City is on the hunt for a pied piper. This week, city officials announced that they’re looking to hire a dedicated rat czar that will lead the charge in rooting out the persistent vermin. The job will pay as much as $US170,000 ($235,994) a year but requires a “general aura of badassery,” according…
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Polar Bears and Brown Bears Have an Ancient, Intimate Relationship, Scientists Say
Researchers have extracted DNA from a 115,000-year-old polar bear jawbone and used it to analyse the genetic relationship between these Arctic predators and their brown bear cousins (grizzlies included). They found that polar bears intermixed with brown bears quite a bit over the millennia.