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'This is unlikely to be an isolated event': 1st polar bear death from bird flu spells trouble for speciesBird flu could be another blow for polar bear populations that are already at risk from climate change.
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10 creatures that washed up on the world's beaches in 2023Rare sightings and haunting creatures of the deep appeared on beaches around the world this year — here are 10
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Our favorite stories about Earth and its creatures this yearDolphins with thumbs and eruptions of diamonds from Earth's center topped our list of favorite stories this year.
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Iceland volcano LIVE: Likelihood of further eruptions diminished, lava flows appear to have ceasedLIVE Latest updates on the volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula, which began erupting on Monday (Dec. 18) north of the small fishing village of Grindavík following weeks of localised earthquakes and sinkholes.
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Jellyfish elevator carrying fish from ocean depths captured in weird, otherworldly photoImage of a fish catching a lift on a jellyfish elevator is one of the winners of the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition.
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Breathtaking photos show wall of lava erupting from volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes PeninsulaA huge volcanic fissure appeared in Iceland on Dec. 18, spewing lava up to 100 feet into the air — and the eruption has been captured in incredible pictures.
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Watch ancient, giant millipede the size of a car brought back to life in remarkable reconstructionThe massive, extinct millipede Arthropleura has been brought back to life in a stunning reconstruction for the Netflix series "Life on Our Planet."
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Stunning footage captures tiny bird's fight for survival in massive Saharan sandstormFirst of its kind footage captured for National Geographic's "Incredible Animal Journeys" shows a barn swallow caught in a sandstorm as part of its migration through the Sahara Desert.
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'It may take more time': Risk of eruption from Iceland volcano still high, with ground 'continuing to swell'Almost two weeks after the town of Grindavík was evacuated over fears of a volcanic eruption, the magma dike beneath Iceland still poses a high risk, with earthquakes and ground deformation ongoing.
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Iceland volcano could burst like a 'fizzy drink,' with lava reaching Blue Lagoon resort in daysMagma building beneath Iceland may break through the surface in a volcanic eruption, sending lava flows toward the Blue Lagoon, the Svartsengi geothermal power plant and the town of Grindavík.
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Supervolcano 'megabeds' discovered at bottom of sea point to catastrophic events in Europe every 10,000 to 15,000 yearsFour huge deposits from supervolcano eruptions over the last 40,000 years have been discovered at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.
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'Time's finally up': Impending Iceland eruption is part of centuries-long volcanic pulseIceland's Reykjanes Peninsula is now in a new era of volcanic eruptions that will last for up to 500 years, and the building magma beneath Sundhnúkur and Grindavík is part of this millenia-long cycle.
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Iceland volcano: Eruption feared as 10-mile-long 'magma tunnel' forms beneath townAuthorities in Iceland have warned that a volcanic eruption is imminent, with the town of Grindavík, close to the country's famous Blue Lagoon resort, evacuated.
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New island that emerged from the ocean off Japan is now visible from spaceA newly-formed island off the coast of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean was spotted in satellite images after it emerged during an underwater volcanic eruption at the end of October.
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Watch a huge megapod of acrobatic spinner dolphins in incredible, rare videoA megapod of dolphins with thousands of individuals has been captured on video hunting flying fish off the coast of Costa Rica.
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Wolf spider mama wearing crown of babies captured in stunning photoWinning images from The Nature Conservancy's 2023 Global Photo Contest include a wolf spider in a Maryland park with a hat made of her own babies.
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Watch this monstrous 'sea devil' goosefish walk along the bottom of the ocean off the Galapagos IslandsFootage filmed 1,225 feet beneath the ocean surface shows a goosefish strolling along the seafloor before turning its bulbous head and bulging eyes straight at the camera.
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Watch rare footage of huge crocodile eating baby hippo with umbilical cord still attachedA crocodile in Kenya's Mara River was filmed thrashing around with the corpse of a baby hippo in its jaws in unusual sighting. It is unclear if the crocodile killed the calf or if it snatched a stillborn.
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Electrifying time-lapse video shows neurons shooting across the inside of a chick embryoAn striking video of developing neurons won the 2023 Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition.
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Team Egg or Team Sponge? Scientists divided over identity of mysterious golden orb from bottom of oceanThe weird gold dome-shaped object was found during an NOAA expedition to the Gulf of Mexico and is now being preserved in ethanol until it can be sent for laboratory analysis.
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1st of its kind footage shows guard dogs saving sheep from puma attack on a pitch black mountainThe footage of a puma hunting sheep was captured with thermal imaging cameras in the Patagonian wilderness as part of a new National Geographic show.
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Florida alligator weighing over 900 pounds could have been 90 years old when caughtThe enormous alligator was over 13 feet long and weighed 920 pounds — the second heaviest ever to be caught in Florida.
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'It is biological in origin': 1st analysis of weird golden orb from ocean floor leaves scientists stumpedThe golden, dome-shaped object was discovered in the Gulf of Alaska during an NOAA expedition and after bringing it to the surface, scientists still have no idea what it is.
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Teen unearths 34 million-year-old whale skull on her family's Alabama timber farmThe huge, ancient whale skull was discovered during a summer dig on a high school student's family property where fossilized shark teeth had previously been found.
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