“Walking Colon” Sea Cucumbers Poop “Five Eiffel Towers” Per Coral Reef Annually
There are a few scenes in a life where finding something equivalent to five giant fields can considered a good thing, however – excitement –…
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These Tiny Shrimp-Like Critters Are The Fastest Snappers In The Sea
It is easy to assume that big things are more powerful than small things, but in the animal kingdom, we repeatedly find examples of Daddy…
The Internet Appears To Believe Elephants Worship The Moon
Right now, there is a screenshot around Twitter claiming that elephants are religious and have seen practicing “moon worship” with 50,000 likes and 17,000 retweets,…
These Renaissance-era Italian Beads Found In Alaska Traveled To America Long Before Columbus Did
It is time to think about history books again, although if you are still reading that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America in 1492, you will need…
Meet Banana, The Incredibly Rare Yellow Lobster That’s One In 30 Million
Being describe as one in a million makes us feel very special, so you can only imagine the ego on the collar lobster; it a…
Stop Milking Toads to Get High, Say, Conservationists
Please do not eat toad’s milk. Seems like a simple enough request, yet conservationists now have to go to great lengths to persuade them to…
Scintillating Discovery: These Distant ‘Baby’ Black Holes Seem To Be Misbehaving — and Experts Are Perplexed
Radio images of the sky have revealed hundreds of “baby” and supermassive black holes in distant galaxies, with light from galaxies scattering around in unexpected ways.…
The Ancient Babylonian Flood Myth That Inspired Noah’s Ark Had a Dark Twist
The story of the flood that you may be most familiar with is probably Noah’s Ark, but it is far from the only story of…
Scientists Once Proposed an Atomic Priesthood to Deliberately Spread Rituals and Legends
Japan’s Kesennuma contains huge slabs of stone built many centuries ago that warned of environmental disasters. “The high abode is the peace and harmony of…
Myanmar blocks Twitter and Instagram
The Myanmar government has stepped up its internet crackdown, objecting to the presidential election on Microsoft’s lobbying arm blacklist, and Dublin’s Frontline Ventures has raised…
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