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Newly Hatched T. Rex Babies Came Out Of The Egg Ready To Chase Their Own FoodArtist's impression of a newly hatched T. rex, already hunting preyNewly Hatched T. Rex Babies Came Out Of The Egg Ready To Chase Their Own FoodArtist's impression of a newly hatched T. rex, already hunting prey

Newly Hatched T. Rex Babies Came Out Of The Egg Ready To Chase Their Own Food

Needing little parental support, the most famous dinosaur of all was “unsafe at any size.”

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The “World’s Cutest Frog” Is Plump, Looks Like It’s Judging You, And Is Now, Sadly, Even Closer To ExtinctionA desert rain frog sits on the sand side on to the camera looking grump with tiny legs.

The “World’s Cutest Frog” Is Plump, Looks Like It’s Judging You, And Is Now, Sadly, Even Closer To Extinction

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Oldest-Ever Crocodile Soft Tissue Reveals The Color Pattern In An Exquisite 125-Million-Year-Old FossilA picture of the fossil crocodile under UV light, showing the skeleton in the middle and out the outline of the skin.

Oldest-Ever Crocodile Soft Tissue Reveals The Color Pattern In An Exquisite 125-Million-Year-Old Fossil

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In 1961, Scientists Began Exploring Uncharted Caves In Borneo. The "Howling" Mountain Revealed A Hidden World Beneath The Rainforestlight floods through the large mouth of deer cave, with a cavernously high ceiling that makes a human look like an ant

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In 1961, Scientists Began Exploring Uncharted Caves In Borneo. The "Howling" Mountain Revealed A Hidden World Beneath The Rainforestlight floods through the large mouth of deer cave, with a cavernously high ceiling that makes a human look like an ant
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In 1961, Scientists Began Exploring Uncharted Caves In Borneo. The "Howling" Mountain Revealed A Hidden World Beneath The Rainforest

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The Joke's On You: "Invisible Gold" Has Been Found Hiding Inside Fool's Gold In The Deep SeaJapanese scientists found evidence of gold nanoparticles in sulfide deposits at the Higashi–Aogashima Knoll Caldera hydrothermal field.

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The Joke's On You: "Invisible Gold" Has Been Found Hiding Inside Fool's Gold In The Deep SeaJapanese scientists found evidence of gold nanoparticles in sulfide deposits at the Higashi–Aogashima Knoll Caldera hydrothermal field.
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The Joke's On You: "Invisible Gold" Has Been Found Hiding Inside Fool's Gold In The Deep Sea

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Scientists Drilled 1,268 Meters Into The Sea Bed And Discovered The Hidden Plumbing Network That Sustains A "Lost City" Of Hydrothermal VentsA white carbonate spire in the Lost City vent field in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, imaged on 2005 July.

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Scientists Drilled 1,268 Meters Into The Sea Bed And Discovered The Hidden Plumbing Network That Sustains A "Lost City" Of Hydrothermal VentsA white carbonate spire in the Lost City vent field in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, imaged on 2005 July.
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Scientists Drilled 1,268 Meters Into The Sea Bed And Discovered The Hidden Plumbing Network That Sustains A "Lost City" Of Hydrothermal Vents

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Greater Gliders’ Gliding Skills Are Overrated, Although The Researcher Maintains “They’re Greatest In My Heart”It may look like a fluffy manta ray when gliding, but greater gliders can't get anywhere near as far as has previously been claimed.

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Greater Gliders’ Gliding Skills Are Overrated, Although The Researcher Maintains “They’re Greatest In My Heart”It may look like a fluffy manta ray when gliding, but greater gliders can't get anywhere near as far as has previously been claimed.
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Greater Gliders’ Gliding Skills Are Overrated, Although The Researcher Maintains “They’re Greatest In My Heart”

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385 Million-Year-Old Fragments Found Inside Coal Rewrites The History Of The World's Oldest AmberAmber fragments on a pale blue background

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385 Million-Year-Old Fragments Found Inside Coal Rewrites The History Of The World's Oldest AmberAmber fragments on a pale blue background
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385 Million-Year-Old Fragments Found Inside Coal Rewrites The History Of The World's Oldest Amber

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Uranium-Chomping Bacteria Found In Bowels Of Mine That Once Supplied Soviet Nuclear WeaponsEntrance to the Pöhla uranium mine, a major extraction site in Saxony, Germany, operated by the Wismut company from 1967 to 1990

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Uranium-Chomping Bacteria Found In Bowels Of Mine That Once Supplied Soviet Nuclear WeaponsEntrance to the Pöhla uranium mine, a major extraction site in Saxony, Germany, operated by the Wismut company from 1967 to 1990
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Uranium-Chomping Bacteria Found In Bowels Of Mine That Once Supplied Soviet Nuclear Weapons

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$50 Million Dinosaur Sale Smashes Auction Record. Three Palaeontologists Told Us Why That’s Potentially Catastrophic For Science And Educationside profile of gus the t rex mounted in a predatory position with tail out and mouth open

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$50 Million Dinosaur Sale Smashes Auction Record. Three Palaeontologists Told Us Why That’s Potentially Catastrophic For Science And Educationside profile of gus the t rex mounted in a predatory position with tail out and mouth open
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$50 Million Dinosaur Sale Smashes Auction Record. Three Palaeontologists Told Us Why That’s Potentially Catastrophic For Science And Education

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How Do You Name A New Species? | IFLScience The Big QuestionsA picture of a museum cabinet displaying birds, with a mobile phone overlaid showing on the screen the logo for The Big Questions.

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How Do You Name A New Species? | IFLScience The Big QuestionsA picture of a museum cabinet displaying birds, with a mobile phone overlaid showing on the screen the logo for The Big Questions.
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How Do You Name A New Species? | IFLScience The Big Questions

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Mysterious Masked Monkey Is The Fifth Discovered In Africa In 75 Years. And It May Already Be EndangeredA black monkey with an orange face and pink lips sits n a tree looking down.

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Mysterious Masked Monkey Is The Fifth Discovered In Africa In 75 Years. And It May Already Be EndangeredA black monkey with an orange face and pink lips sits n a tree looking down.
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Mysterious Masked Monkey Is The Fifth Discovered In Africa In 75 Years. And It May Already Be Endangered

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Microplastics Found In 92% Of Hydrothermal Vent Animals 2 Kilometers Deep On The Ocean FloorA photograph taken deep underwater in the Mariana Trench showing 'giant tube worms' - a pink wriggly marine invertebrate - clinging to a hydrothermal vent giving off bubbles.

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Microplastics Found In 92% Of Hydrothermal Vent Animals 2 Kilometers Deep On The Ocean FloorA photograph taken deep underwater in the Mariana Trench showing 'giant tube worms' - a pink wriggly marine invertebrate - clinging to a hydrothermal vent giving off bubbles.
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Microplastics Found In 92% Of Hydrothermal Vent Animals 2 Kilometers Deep On The Ocean Floor

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More And More Of The Sahara Is Ending Up In EuropeThe skies above the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, glows a vibrant orange due to Saharan dust in the atmosphere.

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More And More Of The Sahara Is Ending Up In EuropeThe skies above the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, glows a vibrant orange due to Saharan dust in the atmosphere.
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More And More Of The Sahara Is Ending Up In Europe

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Trump Administration Is Threatening To Unravel 50 Years Of The Endangered Species Act With Just One WordGrizzly Bear cubs in the wild.

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Trump Administration Is Threatening To Unravel 50 Years Of The Endangered Species Act With Just One WordGrizzly Bear cubs in the wild.
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Trump Administration Is Threatening To Unravel 50 Years Of The Endangered Species Act With Just One Word

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Monkeys Are Creeped Out By The "Uncanny Valley", Just Like We AreMonkey freaked out by weird avatar

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Monkeys Are Creeped Out By The "Uncanny Valley", Just Like We AreMonkey freaked out by weird avatar
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Monkeys Are Creeped Out By The "Uncanny Valley", Just Like We Are

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What Would Happen If We Just Left Forests Alone? Just Ask Białowieża, Europe’s Best Preserved Primeval ForestNatural coniferous stand of Bialowieza Forest Landscape Reserve in morning with sunlight entering

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What Would Happen If We Just Left Forests Alone? Just Ask Białowieża, Europe’s Best Preserved Primeval ForestNatural coniferous stand of Bialowieza Forest Landscape Reserve in morning with sunlight entering
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What Would Happen If We Just Left Forests Alone? Just Ask Białowieża, Europe’s Best Preserved Primeval Forest

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The World’s Largest Hybrid Solar Farm That Stores Energy After Sunset In Molten Salt Joins China's Great Solar WallAerial view of a solar farm in the deserts of Dunhuang, Northwestern China.

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The World’s Largest Hybrid Solar Farm That Stores Energy After Sunset In Molten Salt Joins China's Great Solar WallAerial view of a solar farm in the deserts of Dunhuang, Northwestern China.
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The World’s Largest Hybrid Solar Farm That Stores Energy After Sunset In Molten Salt Joins China's Great Solar Wall

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In 1947, Scientists Dropped 86 Kilograms Of Dry Ice Into A Hurricane To See What Would HappenHurricane Katrina, seen from space.
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In 1947, Scientists Dropped 86 Kilograms Of Dry Ice Into A Hurricane To See What Would Happen

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How The Anus May Have Triggered The World’s First Mass Extinction Event And Other “Evolution” Wisdom With Chris Packhamchris packham holds the replica skull of Simocetus rayi, an ancient early toothed whale.
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How The Anus May Have Triggered The World’s First Mass Extinction Event And Other “Evolution” Wisdom With Chris Packham

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How Do You Weigh An Octopus Or A Giraffe, Or A Whale, Or A Supermassive Black Hole?A large orange octopus up close to the camera
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How Do You Weigh An Octopus Or A Giraffe, Or A Whale, Or A Supermassive Black Hole?

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Could You Survive Being Sucked Into A Tornado?a woman backs away from a tornado
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Could You Survive Being Sucked Into A Tornado?

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Video: Which Animal Has The Largest Brain?A brains butt
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Video: Which Animal Has The Largest Brain?

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Video: The Ordovician Mass Extinctionan organism from the Ordovician time
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Video: The Ordovician Mass Extinction

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Rare Iridescence Discovered In A Frog. Its Shiny Blue Hot Pants May Dazzle Predators As A Form Of Defensetwo images of a frog's behind show its legs are sparkly blue on the inside thigh and pea-green on the outside

Rare Iridescence Discovered In A Frog. Its Shiny Blue Hot Pants May Dazzle Predators As A Form Of Defense

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For The First Time Ever Fish And Christmas Tree Worms Come Together In An Unlikely Housing SituationA blenny fish hides in between the pink feathery fronds of a Christmas tree worm.

For The First Time Ever Fish And Christmas Tree Worms Come Together In An Unlikely Housing Situation

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Four Newly Discovered Lineages of Peruvian Cacao Trees Could Save Chocolate’s FutureThe University of the West Indies' Chocolate Research Center makes it one of the coolest universities in the world, and these are some on-site cacao plants

Four Newly Discovered Lineages of Peruvian Cacao Trees Could Save Chocolate’s Future

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People Appear To Be A Little Confused About The Purpose Of The "Doomsday Vault" In SvalbardSvalbard Global Seed Vault, jutting out of the snow at night.

People Appear To Be A Little Confused About The Purpose Of The "Doomsday Vault" In Svalbard

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Hector The Convector Is One Of The World's Strangest Natural PhenomenonHector, as seen from Gunn Point in Northern Territory, Australia

Hector The Convector Is One Of The World's Strangest Natural Phenomenon

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Ocean Acidification Could Shrink Squids’ Brains By Almost 50 PercentSquid like this bigfin reef squid, are famously smart, but that might not still be true in a high-carbon dioxide future

Ocean Acidification Could Shrink Squids’ Brains By Almost 50 Percent

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Air-Conditioning Isn't The Solution To A Warmer World, A Global Review WarnsPhoto view of a facade of a typical old ancient hk hong kong tower housing industrial buildings in Kowloon

Air-Conditioning Isn't The Solution To A Warmer World, A Global Review Warns

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Greenland Ice Melt May Help Weaken Critical AMOC Ocean Current By 80 Percent, But It Could Be ReversibleA photo of a sea ice packed around a bay that is melting. The ice has created a green/turquoise hue to the water in the foreground. In the background is an elevated point covered in snow.

Greenland Ice Melt May Help Weaken Critical AMOC Ocean Current By 80 Percent, But It Could Be Reversible

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Astonishing 450-Million-Year-Old Fossil Preserving Soft Tissue Is "One In A Million"This fossil represents a fossilized tube foot from a 450-million-year-old crinoid, only the second crinoid soft tissue ever found

Astonishing 450-Million-Year-Old Fossil Preserving Soft Tissue Is "One In A Million"

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Two Halves Of 300-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fish Reunited Revealing Unique Braincase And Snug Brain TissuesA photograph showing two fossils, that are two halves of a round node. Under each is the museum listing showing where they were found and the dates in handwriting.

Two Halves Of 300-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fish Reunited Revealing Unique Braincase And Snug Brain Tissues

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There's A New Theory Of Why Antarctica Froze 34 Million Years Ago, Way Before Ice Covered The ArcticThat's a lot of ice: The sun hovers just above the horizon at the South Pole Atmospheric Research Observatory in the depths of Antarctica.

There's A New Theory Of Why Antarctica Froze 34 Million Years Ago, Way Before Ice Covered The Arctic

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We Could Be Watching The Birth Of A New Island As A Deep-Sea Volcano Erupts In The Bismarck SeaA satellite photo showing a plume of white steam rising from the water. Under it is a greenish patch of decolored water. To the left is a tiny line that has been labelled "pumice". Taken together, it is possible to see the contours of a shape under the water.

We Could Be Watching The Birth Of A New Island As A Deep-Sea Volcano Erupts In The Bismarck Sea

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Newly Discovered Spider Is Basically A Mechanical Engineer, Building Spring-Loaded Snares To Catapult Its PreyA spider creates a cone of silk on a leaf, luring the ant to bite the cone.

Newly Discovered Spider Is Basically A Mechanical Engineer, Building Spring-Loaded Snares To Catapult Its Prey

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New World Screwworm Detected In US For First Time Since 1966, Despite Efforts To Stop It Crossing The BorderSingle NWS larva placed next to a U.S. nickel to illustrate the size comparison.

New World Screwworm Detected In US For First Time Since 1966, Despite Efforts To Stop It Crossing The Border

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