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Watch heartbreaking footage of humpback whale with missing tail in Washington stateDrone captures footage of a humpback whale missing its tail fluke — an injury suspected to be from long-term entanglement in fishing gear.
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Otherworldly video captures rare jellyfish with a hitchhiker in its bellAmazing new footage shows a rare Deepstaria jellyfish with a resident isopod in its bell off the coast of Chile.
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Secret of why Greenland sharks live so incredibly long finally revealedSurprising new research has revealed why the world's longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark, has such a lengthy lifespan. The findings could have big implications for the species' future.
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Dragon-shaped aurora and 'scream of a dying star' revealed as 2024 Astronomy Photographer of the Year finalistsThe Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest has revealed the jaw-dropping finalists of its 2024 competition.
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Zany polar bears and a '3-headed' giraffe star in Nikon Comedy Wildlife AwardsNikon release its best entries so far for the Comedy Wildlife Awards 2024.
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20 of the best named animal species on Earth, from Boops boop to Agra vationFrom cave-dwelling creatures to weird-looking animals this countdown covers animals with the wittiest names.
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Stunning 3D images show anatomy of 500 million-year-old Cambrian trilobites entombed in volcanic ashScientists used 3D imaging to reconstruct the anatomy of Cambrian trilobites discovered buried under layers of volcanic ash.
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Gigantic sunfish that washed up on Oregon beach could be the largest of its species ever foundA rare giant hoodwinker sunfish that washed ashore Gearhart beach in Oregon could be the largest of its species ever sampled.
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Bornean clouded leopard family filmed in wild for 1st time everCamera traps in Indonesian Borneo recorded a clouded leopard mother with her two cubs in the first footage of its kind.
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10 'breathtaking' photos of our galaxy from the 2024 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contestFrom dangerous lion reserves to high mountain peaks, photographers go all out to capture the most spectacular images of our galaxy in this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year competition.
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Elusive 'octopus squid' with world's largest biological lights attacks camera in striking new videoWatch rare footage of deep sea "octopus squid" reveal its bioluminescent photophores as it attacks an underwater camera.
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Mesmerizing photo shows weird, scowling parasitic plant that looks like an owlA stunning photo of the peculiar parasitic plant species, Thismia thaithongiana, wins gold in the Plants and Fungus category of the World Nature Photography Awards.
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Smalltooth sawfish in Florida are spinning and beaching themselves in strange, mystery die-offErratically thrashing and whirling smalltooth sawfish are stranding on beaches — and scientists don't know why they're behaving this way.
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Watch venomous snakes wrestling for wormlike creature in epic tug-of-war battleFirst-of-its-kind footage captures two coral snakes fighting over a wormlike creature in western Colombia.
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Watch rare endangered pink handfish walking in 19th-century shipwreck off TasmaniaTechnical scuba divers found a rare pink handfish hidden among the wreckage of the SS Tasman.
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'Ghost shark' with enormous head and giant iridescent eyes discovered off ThailandA new species of deep-sea chimaera with a ghoulish appearance has been discovered in the Andaman Sea.
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Worm-like creature squirts 'milk' from its butt to feed its young in 1st-of-its-kind videoVideo footage captures an egg-laying amphibian "nursing" its babies with a nutritious liquid similar to mammalian milk.
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7,000 humpback whales died in the North Pacific over 10 years — and 'the blob' is to blameNew research using artificial intelligence reveals that a decline in the North Pacific population of humpback whales between 2012 and 2021 coincided with the strongest marine heat wave recorded globally.
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Striking virtual 3D scans reveal animals' innards — including the last meal of a hognose snake3D reconstructions of over 13,000 specimens have been collected as part of a collaborative project called openVertebrate.
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Secrets of giant Antarctic sea spiders and their tiny eggs revealed after 140 yearsUnlike other sea spiders that carry their eggs on their backs, male giant antarctic sea spiders spend two days gluing their eggs to the seafloor.
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Watch a rare pink albino elephant baby playing by a waterhole in adorable footageThe adorable 1-year-old male calf was filmed enjoying playtime in Kruger National Park in South Africa.
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Watch bright red blood-sucking parasite feast on gulper eel in rare, deep-sea footageRemotely operated vehicle on a research dive captures close-up video of a beady-eyed gulper eel with a parasitic copepod permanently attached to its body.
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Why is a mushroom growing on a frog? Scientists don't know, but it sure looks weirdFirst ever documented evidence of a fungus, suspected to be a Mycena species, growing on the body of a seemingly healthy frog.
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Watch hypnotizing footage of mysterious deep-sea worm dancing in the twilight zoneSchmidt Ocean Institute spots a bioluminescent deep-sea worm that creates a hypnotizing display as it swims in circles.
