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Prairie Dogs: The Fiercest Killers in the West

New study reveals white-tailed prairie dogs attack and kill ground squirrels with no provocation

Each year, thousands of California sea lions flock to the docks at Oregon's Port of Astoria.

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An Oregon Port Is Using Inflatable Air Dancers to Scare Off Pesky Sea Lions

The car dealership staple is now a marine mammal scarecrow

Some of the coral bleaching near Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef

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Massive Bleaching Event Hits the Great Barrier Reef

Warm ocean temperatures have impacted large swaths of the Great Barrier Reef in the last month, part of a worldwide coral die-off

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NASA Spies a Supernova’s First Shockwave

Astronomers spot the first flash of a distant supernova in visible light

The Aunslev Crucifix

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Rare Crucifix Suggests Christianity May Have Come Earlier to the Vikings

The 10th-century Aunslev Crucifix is currently being analyzed by the Viking Museum at Ladby

Revelers sit on a wall in Mathura.

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A Saturated Snapshot of This Year’s Holi Celebrations

Revelers are already soaking in shades of the spring festival

A toast to global warming! Kind of.

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Climate Change Makes For Tastier Wine

Global warming + wine grapes = true love…for now

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Visit Richard III's Gravesite With This Bone Chilling 3D Model

The ruler's final resting spot is now publicly available for exploration online

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Here's Why Some of Yosemite’s Iconic Landmarks Are Being Temporarily Renamed

The U.S. government is battling a private company for the rights to historic names

A room decorated with animal art was designed to look like a forest.

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This Polish Museum Exhibit Was Completely Curated By Kids

“Anything Goes” took six months and 69 children to create

The brown bear patella researchers dated to 12,500 years ago

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Bear Bone Adds 2,500 Years to History of Humans in Ireland

Carbon dating of a bear bone covered in cut marks pushes human habitation of Ireland back into the Paleolithic Era

Only about 2,000 people speak Lakota.

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This News Website Is a Lakota-Speaker’s “Dream”

Woihanble.com could help preserve a threatened language

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Roald Dahl’s Iconic Illustrator Inspired This New Font

Quentin Blake’s handwriting has elements of spontaneity and joy

Perhaps Magnolia rzedowskiana should be renamed Magnolia interneta.

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Two New Flower Species Were Discovered Online

These naturalists didn’t know one another—but that didn’t keep them from discovering two new magnolias together

The green object is the comet 252P/LINEAR as it passed by the Larger Megellanic Cloud.

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A Pair of Comets Are Making a Record-Breaking Pass by Earth

This is the closest a comet has come in 246 years

In 1957, the former first lady took to the wheels of steel.

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That One Time Eleanor Roosevelt Was a DJ

In 1957, the first lady spun records for a cause

Some of the items found in the Watlington hoard including coins depicting Alfred the Great and Ceolwulf II together

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Blokes with Metal Detectors Uncover Pieces of British History

Finds by amateur history sleuths shed light on the time when Anglo-Saxons clashed with Vikings

You can thank William Perkin for that garish dress your best friend will make you wear at her wedding.

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How Malaria Gave Us Mauve

Tropical diseases and coal tar have a lot to do with brightly-colored clothing

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Storks Move to a Trashy Neighborhood

White storks in Portugal and Spain are forgoing thier annual migration to Africa to pig out in landfills

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Five New Things We Learned About Pluto This Week

A new set of studies paints Pluto as a weirder planet than scientists once thought

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