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In the days and weeks before Chinese New Year, some 700 million people—twice the entire population of the U.S.—cram…
The European honey buzzard migrates every year from Europe to Africa. This captivating visualization depicts the…
Standing just a few feet away, I looked into the eye of a wild polar bear, scrawny and gaunt from going a summer…
Wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas made this impressive time-lapse showing the massive migration of wildebeests…
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At first glance, it looks like a nebula seen through the Hubble Telescope. But these expanding patches of flashing,…
Imagine you're a river herring, maybe about a foot long, swimming merrily upstream when you suddenly hit a giant…
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Though we often think of early humans emerging from Africa, geneticists have learned that a population of humans from…
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