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Saiga antelope with two calves at the Black Earth Nature Reserve in Kalmykia, Russia

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The Culprits Behind Mysterious Mass Antelope Deaths Finally Exposed

More than half of the world's endangered saiga antelopes died suddenly on the Central Asian steppes last spring

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A Minecraft World Built for Exploring Chemicals

The new world, called MolCraft, is a virtual chemistry museum

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This Scientist Live-Tweets Cheetah Hunts

Documenting nature in all its beauty, viciousness, hilarity and boredom

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A 2,000-Year-Old Greek Fortress Has Been Unearthed in Jerusalem

The fort played a role in the Jewish revolts that inspired Hanukkah

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Forget the Hazy Clouds—The Internet is in the Ocean

This new video explores the 550,000 miles of cable that keeps the internet humming

An illustration of Ornithomimus based on the findings of preserved tail feathers and soft tissue

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New Fossils Show Ostrich-like Dinosaurs Sported a Coat of Plumage

Bits of ancient feathers and skin still clung to the exquisitely preserved fossils

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This Incredible Street Art Is Also An Evolution Lesson

In Rome, a giant mural illustrates how life began and evolved

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Hidden Poop Joke Found in 17th-Century Art Owned By Queen Elizabeth

The newly restored Dutch painting depicts a man relieving himself

Bonus points if you can find a cat in this picture.

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Someone Just Paid $826,000 for the Greatest Cat Painting of All Time

"My Wife's Lovers" pays tribute to the wealthiest cats of the 1890s

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According to This 1919 Writing Guide, There Are Only 37 Possible Stories

From love and disaster to "a miracle of God," the 96-year-old manual outlines every known plot

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Weak Skeletons May Have Spelled the End for Mammoths

New results suggest that weak bones made the beasts more susceptible to human hunters

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Orion's Return, Falling Fireballs and Other Treats in November's Night Skies

A constellation rises as the Leonid and Taurid Meteor Showers return

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Amazon Just Opened An Actual Bookstore in Seattle

And just like its online marketplace, Amazon's brick-and-mortar shop aims to shake up the industry

Iceberg, Amundsen Sea, Antarctica

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What is Happening to Antarctica's Ice Sheets

While parts of Antarctica get icier, others are on the verge of collapse

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Coywolves Are Taking Over Eastern North America

Coywolves are not 'shy wolves'—they are coyote-wolf hybrids (with some dog mixed in) and now number in the millions

Russia's Anna Sidorova plays during the 2014 World Women's Curling Championship.

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The World of Competitive Curling Has Its Very Own Scandal

Is new technology too dominant for the Olympic sport?

Detail from the cover of the 1948 Green Book, a guidebook for black travelers.

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A Black American's Guide to Travel In the Jim Crow Era

For decades, <i>The Green Book </i> was the black traveler's lifeline

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How Computers Learned to Play Nintendo

Super Mario World is a great test for artificial intelligence

Singing sand dunes in the Gobi Desert

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Why the Sands of Many Dunes Sing, Boom, and Even Burp

Contrary to Marco Polo's tales, it's not because they're full of mysterious spirits

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This Extremely Slow Rube Goldberg Device Lasts More Than Six Weeks

The whimsical invention uses molasses, a tortoise, and sprouting grass to move a golf ball

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