An endearingly round raccoon has taken social media by storm, with scientists weighing in as to what rare condition might have given him his unique shape.
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If you stop and watch for a while, the behavior of ants is endlessly fascinating, they even have death rituals, and science can tell us why.
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When it comes to inventive ant species, Australia is one of a kind, and this newly discovered species that hunts by using a catapult is no exception.
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A deep-sea expedition uncovered a number of strange species, including a strange sponge that isn't quite the passive filter-feeder that most others are.
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Just a mere 10,000 years ago, the Americas used to be home to enormous ground-dwelling sloths, and the reason they're gone is kind of a bummer.
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If you've ever had the unfortunate luck to live with cockroaches, you've likely seen them dead a few times, so why do they always end up back up?
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The ocean is teeming with life, much of it undiscovered, and one recent discovery has the potential to change the face of medicine for many.
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Wildfires send toxic particulate matter into the air, and while most of their effects are temporary, they might also cause some major long-term health concerns.
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Polar bears seem like a scary predator in snowy climates, but in Antarctica, they don't reign supreme. Rather, this animal sits near the top of the food chain.
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The act of washing eggs may sound innocuous, but in actuality, the large-scale process has a huge effect on how eggs can be stored. Heres' the reason why.
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There are some really strange animals in the fossil record, but there's one that was found 70 years ago that continues to baffle paleontologists.
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Much of the deep ocean remains unexplored, and scientists often find new inhabitants of the depths. But they aren't always as adorable as this species.
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China has recently been hit by two massive tornadoes, and despite the country having some of the right conditions for such storms, they are actually quite rare.
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Stretching across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the United States is a vast belt of seaweed that keeps growing and getting more troublesome.
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Both birds and reptiles lay eggs to protect their young, but despite the basic similarities, the differences between their eggs can run deep.
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When scientists kicked off the two-year Biosphere 2 experiment in 1991, they had high hopes for its success, but things quickly started to go awry.
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Even though pork is a major staple of the American diet, its production at an industrial scale is killing a lot more than just the pigs involved.
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Eggs are one of the best foods out there for protein, but why limit yourself to just chicken eggs? Ostrich eggs have more to offer than their size.
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Animals like dinosaurs might come to mind when it comes to ancient species, but scientists found that this surprising species is even older than they thought.
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One of the best things about apples is the seemingly endless varieties they come in, and the difference between cultivars is pretty easy to explain.
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The South American rainforests are full of beautiful and deadly animals, among which are the poison dart frogs which more than live up to their name.
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Deep in the Canadian wilds, far above the Arctic Circle, a scientist found fossilized bones that shouldn't be there and changed our understanding.
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TV and movies have made us think that quicksand is a deadly mixture of sand and water that will swallow you whole. That's not true — at least most of the time.
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The T. rex is usually thought of as a land-based monster, but the term can actually refer to an equally dangerous beast that stalked the oceans.
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When it comes to varieties of rice, most people tend to think of just white and brown, but what are the differences between these rice varieties?
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If you go to the beach you may comfort yourself with the thought that nothing dangerous is in the shallow waters, but you may need to reassess that.
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"Project Hail Mary" really pushes the limit when it comes to non-humanoid aliens. But researchers posit that real aliens could be even stranger than that.
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