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Australia's largest wildfire is the result of a weapons test gone awry
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It turns out that bears can eat 40,000 moths a day
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Officials blamed the influx of smog on three factors—windless conditions, bonfires of harvested corn stalks and a fired-up municipal heating system
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Scientists say that without these skeletons, they'll never fully understand how dinosaurs evolved
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This life history pattern likely evolved as a way for the female whales to ensure their genetic mark in the world does indeed get passed on
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Not all your tissue ages at the same rate, according to new research on systems to identify and age human cells
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Careful, there's homework
Part clam, part muppet, this is a great fish
The Matterhorn is one of the highest peaks in the alps, and claimed the lives of 500 men before the first was able to reach the top
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In the past few years the price of water rose 23%, and water utilities are taking on crushing debt to keep up
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If this new research holds, we're about to lose a whole pile of evolutionary ancestors
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They all take an average of about 21 seconds to empty their bladders, nearly regardless of how big they are
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These attacks are extremely rare, however, and victims were probably doing things they should not have been doing
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What this means for the people who silently carry the abnormal protein, however, remains unknown
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Killed by bleaching, this weird kind of coral can regrow from cryptic tissue
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Have you ever been underwater and thought, "man I really wish I could watch some YouTube videos right now?"
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If large creatures were overwhelmed by the bounty of food available, the microbes and insects would not be
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Every time an oarfish washes up on the beach, the world freaks out. Here's the most recent one
Music doesn't solely work by distracting us or syncing our motions up with its encouraging beat
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Gases from heavy fertilizer use are threatening the ecological balance of America's natural parks
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