A fisherman in Florida has caught an enormous, eighteen inch crustacean. Could it be a giant mantis shrimp? Giant Mantis Shrimp aren't really that closely related to shrimp. They are stomatopods (most...

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TOKYO — Scientists have settled a decades-old mystery by naming a cause of death for Japan's most famous dog, Hachiko, whose legendary loyalty was immortalized in a Hollywood movie starring Richard...
Paleontologists have identified a new species of flying reptile that lived over 120 million years ago in northeastern China. Their findings have been published in Scientific Reports. Pterosaurs...
If you’ve ever wanted to peer inside an animal without harming it, the glass frog offers an amazing opportunity. These tropical frogs have transparent skin on their undersides, making their organs...

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Spiders that can catch and consume fish are found in every continent in the world — except Antarctica. That's the main conclusion of a study, published on Wednesday in PLOS ONE, in which researchers...

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Blue whales along the US west coast seem to have recovered from decades of hunting, surprising researchers and regulators who had listed them as threatened.  The population of Balaenoptera musculus,...

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In fact, the Dreadnoughtus schrani dinosaur unveiled Thursday was one of the biggest -- if not THE biggest -- land animal ever to grace the Earth. Experts estimate that back in his day -- which was...
For years I was convinced that there exists among us a strange, unidentified species of animal — something between bug and bird — jetting around gardens and flowers and trees. Not too long ago one of...
All right today we're going to show you how to actually use an aquarium siphon. A lot of people have them but a lot of people don't know how to actually use them and they end up making a big mess out...
00:06 COMM: Standing at just five inches tall from her paws to her shoulder, little Pixel could be the world's shortest cat, and even though Pixel small in stature, she's big in personality and...

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