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Australia’s superb lyrebird has been keeping secrets. Sure, it’s famous for mimicking chainsaws, camera shutters, and the occasional crying baby. But behind those dazzling tail feathers, it’s running a slow-motion horror show—one where its prey is carefully...
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An army of oversized, orange-toothed swamp rats is devouring America’s wetlands, and the government has a solution: Kill them. Cook them. Eat them. These insatiable invaders—nutria—are South American rodents built like beavers with the appetites of locusts. They chew...
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The behemoth known as A23a, a block of ice twice the size of Greater London, has finally stopped drifting and wedged itself neatly onto the continental shelf of South Georgia. It’s been roaming the Southern Ocean for years, but now it’s stuck—like an ancient, frozen...
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