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Piles of starfish, crab, mussels and lobsters collected along the North Sea coast
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Though the image looks otherworldly, the likely processes behind these oddities also happen on Earth
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<em>Thismia neptunis</em> spends most of its life underground, only making a rare appearance to bloom
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has said that it will now evaluate big-game permits on a ‘case-by-case basis’
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The ship was sunk by an American destroyer so it couldn't be captured in the Battle of Coral Sea, considered to be the first carrier battle in history
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The oldest yet found, the relic was thrown into the Indian Ocean by German sailors conducting an experiment
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A live-action film of the iconic tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff hits theaters this summer
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A graduate student and herpetologist turns to Twitter for answers
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If you take a selfie from just 12 inches away, it may make your nose look 30 percent bigger
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The <i>Clotilda</i> illegally transported 110 enslaved people from present-day Benin to Alabama more than 50 years after the U.S. outlawed the slave trade
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The baby enantiornithe had a soft sternum and likely could not fly
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The Oxford medical student, who died on March 3 at age 88, broke what was believed to be an impossible record
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The wood-munching critters are technically just social roaches
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Using more than 86 million profiles from Geni.com, researchers created a database that links 13 million people
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The highly anticipated reboot hits theaters in December
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The enigmatic work was last examined—and restored—in 1994
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The markings include a bull, a sheep and a mysterious ‘S’ motif
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The signs of illness in the paintings illustrate that breast cancer is not just a modern malady
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In other areas of the Antarctic, the black and white birds are in decline—but on the Danger Islands, they thrive
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Of the National Park Service's 417 sites, 385 keep track of their park visitors
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