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What Is It About Bees And Hexagons?
Solved! A bee-buzzing, honey-licking 2,000-year-old mystery that begins here, with this beehive. Look at the honeycomb in the photo and ask yourself: (I know you've been wondering this all your life, but have been too shy to ask out loud ... ) Why is every cell in this honeycomb a hexagon?
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Biggest python ever captured in Florida caught in Miami-Dade County
Jason Leon, 23, caught 18-foot, 8-inch 128-pound python while taking a late-night ride in ATVs with friends.
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Record python, nearly 19 feet, killed in South Florida.
A Miami man caught and killed the longest Burmese python ever captured in the state of Florida, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
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Top 10 Newly Discovered Species of 2012
Enjoy viewing the extraordinary species
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Scientists Have Solved The Mystery Of The White Tiger's Coat
A single genetic change.
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Amphibians Are Croaking All Over The World
A new analysis finds frogs, toads, and salamanders are disappearing faster than ever imagined from everywhere in the US landscape.
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UK zoo worker dies after being mauled by tiger
Sarah McClay, 24, died after being attacked Friday by a Sumatran tiger while working in the big cat enclosure building at the South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Dalton-in-Furness.
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Don't Listen to the Buzz: Lobsters Aren't Actually Immortal
In recent weeks, photos of lobsters have been floating around social media with captions calling the crustaceans “biologically immortal.” Anyone with an Internet connection can even create a meme juxtaposing this fact with a joke of his or her own. But is this fun fact actually, well, fact?
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Roadside Kitsch: Rooster Cogburn's Ostrich Farm Tucson, AZ
Travel with my family and I on a photo excursion as we take a day trip to Rooster Cogburn's Ostrich Farm just outside of Tucson, AZ at the base of Picacho Peak.
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To kill, cheetahs use agility and acceleration not top speed
Researchers have used gadget-laden collars to record cheetahs' movements in the wild. They found that cheetahs succeed not because it is the fastest animal on land, but because of its incredible acceleration and unmatched turning speeds.
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World's Largest Freshwater Turtle Nearly Extinct
In June, the last known pair of the near-extinct Yangtze giant softshell turtle mated again—and, scientists hope, made babies.
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Wildlife overpass
This allows animals to cross without having to run across the freeway.
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Badass Triceratops Cousin Sported Hoodie : DNews
The earliest known cousin of Triceratops was Judiceratops, a newly identified dinosaur that sported a hoodie-like growth on the back of its head. Continue reading →
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Primeval forest discovered deep off Alabama coast
Buried more than 60 feet below the surface, perfectly preserved forest is estimated to be 50-80,000 years old
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Cheetah-ing death: Impala escapes hungry predators
Desperate times require desperate measures – and when an impala was targeted by two vicious cheetahs, it made a jump for it that will not soon be forgotten. The distressed animal was captured on camera leaping into a car full of tourists in order to escape the predators. The terrified animal appeared to be seconds away from death when an unexpected window of opportunity appeared – quite literally.
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Stop and smell the flowers
Just a friendly reminder
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Stork Attacks Cars, Houses In German Village
Residents of the northern town of Bergholz in Germany are living in fear this summer, their windows under constant threat of attack. The menace?
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Bats may be wiped out by deadly fungus: researchers
A Nova Scotia biologist says he and others in the scientific community are perplexed that the federal government has not declared bats an endangered species.
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The Loneliest Whale in the World.
The story of the 'loneliest whale in the world' may say more about humans than it does about whales.
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California wildfire destroys 7 homes, threatens more.
A wildfire in mountains west of Palm Springs burned seven homes and led to the evacuation of dozens more, officials said.
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