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2024-11-09 @ 17.35.40 ∈ In English

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Bad News: The Ocean Is Full of Spiders*
*Sea spiders are not actually arachnids, although they certainly look the part. They’re weird guys, and the specifics of their strangeness may actually help us to better understand how all invertebrate groups evolved.
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2023-08-29 @ 17.37.55 ∈ In English

A case of melanism found in a wild gentoo penguin living in Antarctica
[The] research team found no evidence of the extra coloring on its white front making the penguin any more susceptible to predators—and it did not seem to bother the other penguins in its colony.
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2023-05-16 @ 17.37.02 ∈ In English

Butterfly tree of life reveals an origin in North America
About 100 million years ago, a group of trendsetting moths started flying during the day rather than at night, taking advantage of nectar-rich flowers that had co-evolved with bees. This single event led to the evolution of all butterflies.
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2018-12-14 @ 15.30.42 ∈ In English

Two contract employees die in Antarctica
Two fire technicians at the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station in Antarctica have been pronounced dead following an incident at a generator building that powers a radio transmitter near the station.