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1-in-100 million 'cotton candy' lobster caught off New Hampshire alive and well at aquariumA beautiful and rare "cotton candy" lobster caught in New Hampshire may be due to a combination of genetics and diet.
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'This could be the origin of the Atlantis legend': Mountain that sank beneath the waves discovered off Canary IslandsA large seamount with three inactive volcanoes that sank into the ocean millions of years ago off the coast of Lanzarote may have inspired the legend of Atlantis.
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Siberian gold miners accidentally find ancient woolly rhino mummy with horn and soft tissues still intactMummified woolly rhino discovered by miners in Russia's Sakha Republic to be fully excavated in the coming months, as researchers begin studying its intact horn.
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32 of the most venomous animals in the worldVenom evolved hundreds of millions of years ago, creating a chemical arms race between predatory and prey. Here are some of the most venomous animals living on Earth.
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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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Searching for 'Makozilla' — the supersized mako sharks in the North PacificA decade after a huge mako shark dubbed "The Beast" was caught off the California coast, experts search for its enormous relatives.
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'Ronaldo had been looking slightly fatter than usual': Snake thought to be male has 14 babies in rare 'virgin birth'A captive Brazilian rainbow boa initially declared male by a vet gives birth to 14 snakelets in a rare case of parthenogenesis at a U.K. college.
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'It's like we opened a buffet': Sharks in Gulf of Mexico learn to steal food from fishing netsSharks in the Gulf of Mexico are learning to associate boat engines with food, leading to more and more cases of depredation, experts say.
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Stunning photos show 44,000-year-old mummified wolf discovered in Siberian permafrostScientists perform necropsy on an ancient wolf pulled from Russian permafrost that may still have prey in its stomach.
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'It's pretty incredible, the guy's got three legs': Watch lion looking for sex make record-breaking swim across treacherous river filled with crocs and hipposUgandan lion brothers Jacob and Tibu were filmed swimming a mile across the Kazinga Channel in Uganda — the longest swim ever recorded for the species —after getting their "butts kicked" by rival males.
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Orangutan 'stoically waits' for tourists in award-winning photograph 'See No Evil'Aaron Gekoski's image of an orangutan sitting patiently at Safari World in Bangkok has won the 2024 Environmental Photography Award competition.
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Will we ever be able to stop using plastic?While the push to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is spurring alternatives to petroleum in other sectors, phasing out plastic, particularly for medical applications, will be very tough.
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How much oil is left and will we ever run out?We may never run out of oil, though known reserves are expected to last for about 50 years, current estimates suggest.
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Double cicada bloom 2024: Google Doodle celebrates once-in-221-year event with band of bugsThe "cicada-geddon" is the result of the co-emergence of Brood XIII and Brood XIX, with billions of bugs crawling out of the ground across parts of Eastern U.S.
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Aardwolf: The weirdo hyena cousin that eats 300,000 termites each nightAardwolves — the "weird cousin" of the hyena world that has peg teeth and only eats insects — are an evolutionary mystery, stemming from a ghost lineage that scientists haven't been able to figure out.
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Watch female octopus drag male around during sex in rare footage captured off Indonesian islandUnusual octopus mating session captured in rare and comical footage filmed off the Indonesian island of Bunaken for new National Geographic show.
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Brutal footage shows orca mom and son team up to drown another pod's calfFirst of its kind footage captures the moment an orca mom and her son drown a calf in an extremely rare case of infanticide.
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Giant ball of Burmese pythons having sex discovered in Florida Everglades in record-breaking catchIn a record-setting expedition, conservationists in the Everglades captured and removed 11 invasive pythons from the environment.
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'They are very well aware of their agency': Elephant calf burial ritual discovered in IndiaElephant burial rituals have been discovered in India, with herd members placing calves upside down in irrigation pits then covering the bodies with soil.
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Snakes are built to evolve at incredible speeds, and scientists aren't sure whySnakes have an evolutionary clock that ticks a lot faster than many other groups of animals, allowing them to diversify and evolve at super quick speeds, researchers have discovered.
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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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Eerie photograph captures whales hunted off Greenland lying in their watery graveHaunting image showing two whales with their bones picked clean off the coast of Greenland has won the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024 competition.
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Watch 30-foot Jurassic sea monster come back to life in David Attenborough's new pliosaur showIn 2022, fossil hunters noticed a snout sticking out of a cliff face on the Jurassic Coast. It turned out to be one of the largest and most complete pliosaur skulls ever discovered.
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'We were very surprised': Magma under Reykjanes Peninsula rushed into Grindavík dike at a shockingly fast rateMagma flowed into the dike beneath Grindavík at a rate almost 100 times higher than what was seen in the eruptions that took place between 2021 and 2023.
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