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Biologists Use Mini Backpacks To Save This Toad From Extinction
The Wyoming toad is the most endangered amphibian in North America.A lethal combination of insecticides, climate change, disease, and increased predation, has brought the two-inch toad to the brink.As...
View ArticleA Bottlenose Dolphin Gives Birth On Camera
The Brookfield Zoo in Illinois welcomed a newborn Bottlenose dolphin to their clan last Friday.The baby girl, born to a 26-year-old dolphin named Allie, weighed 40 pounds and measured three feet long...
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One Year Of Seasons On Earth In One Second
John Nelson of IDV Solutions has created an animation showing one year of seasons on Earth.The images come from NASA's Visible Earth database. Nelson writes on his blog that he stitched together 12...
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Cactus Needles Inspired A Super-Efficient New Way To Clean Up Oil Spills
Scientists may have just invented an amazing new way to clean up oil spills by mimicking the ingenious physics of cactus needles.Cactus needles are not just for warding off animals trying get a taste...
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New 'Smart Windows' Let In Light But Keep Out The Heat For Energy Savings
A new nanocrystal glass has the ability to control the light and heat that gets through it, which means it could be used to make "smart windows" that could drastically reduce electricity bills.The new...
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Researchers Off Cape Cod Just Caught And Tagged Their First Great White Shark
OCEARCH researchers off the coast of Cape Cod just caught and tagged their first great white of the season.The expedition is supposed to last 30 days, and they are hoping to tag up to 20 animals,...
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Here Is A Picture Of A Shark Inside A Shark
A photo of a shark eating another shark was taken by a graduate student with the University of Delaware's ORB LAB as the research program kicked off its shark-tagging season in July. The photo was...
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Climate Change Is Making Apples Sweeter And Mushier
Climate change is screwing up the apples, according to a new study.Temperatures in Japan's two biggest apple-growing regions have been steadily rising by about 1/3 of a degree every decade, and the...
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Here's The Hard Work That Goes Into Catching Your Lobster [PHOTOS]
Lobster boat captain Craig Stewart and sternman Tim Lovett start work before sunrise and haul traps for hours on end.Making a living is harder now than ever before, as overhead costs for fuel,...
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Massive Wildfire Threatens To Shut Down Power In San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A fast-moving wildfire on the edge of Yosemite National Park has forced the closure of two more areas of the park, but an official said on Saturday he was cautiously...
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Street Artist Finds A Clever Use For London's Trash [PHOTOS]
Artist Francisco de Pajaro makes art out of garbage piles left on the street. He's built a huge following making little trash monsters in London this summer. According to de Pajaro's blog, Art is...
View ArticleScientists Discover A New Species Of 'Walking' Shark
Sharks that 'walk' instead of swim use their pectoral and pelvic fins to push and wriggle their bodies along coral reefs.A new species of "walking" shark, Hemiscyllium halmahera, was caught in eastern...
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A Virus May Be Causing Massive Dolphin Deaths On The East Coast
A rash of dolphin deaths along the East Coast, from New York down to North Carolina, is probably linked to a virus, the AP reports, citing officials from the The National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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Greenpeace Ruined Shell's PR Moment With This Brilliant Prank
Greenpeace continued its publicity war against Shell with a pretty magnificent prank at a Formula One race sponsored by the oil company.The environmentalists snuck into the site of the Shell Belgian...
View ArticleA Time-Lapse Video Of California's Massive Wildfire Is Beautiful And Deeply...
Over the last week, a wildfire near Yosemite National Park in California has burned 192,737 acres, or about 300 square miles. That's an area roughly 10 times the size of Manhattan. Slate's Josh...
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Thermal Images Of New York City Show Why Cities Are So Much Hotter Than Suburbs
Artist and photographer Nikolay Lamm from self-storage search engine StorageFront.com took pictures of New York City with a thermal imaging camera in order to show the unique temperature structure of...
View ArticleA Massive Canyon Was Just Discovered Under Greenland's Ice Sheet
One mile under Greenland's ice sheet lies a 460-mile long canyon that went unknown to scientists until now.The discovery was several decades in the making as NASA and researchers from Germany and the...
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Mississippi Hunters Caught The State's Heaviest Alligator Ever
Mississippi's alligator hunting season kicked off just three days ago and records are already being shattered left and right.For roughly one hour, a 723.5-pound gator caught in Madison on Sunday held...
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Here's What Really Ended The Little Ice Age
For a long time scientists have tried to understand why glaciers in the Alps began retreating in the late 19th century — ending the Little Ice Age — even though slightly cooler temperatures than the...
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The First Tornado-Proof House Will Be Built In A Tiny Kansas Town
The first prototype of a tornado-proof house will be built in Utica, Kans., a very small town roughly 200 miles west of Wichita.Earlier this month, we wrote about this design which involves the house...
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