Animals
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The Ukrainian Navy teaches dolphins how to kill people
The Ukrainian Navy is supposedly training dolphins to kill people. This is not the first time dolphins have been used in military strategy, but it is probably the most violent task that's been asked of them. Now that's what we call progress!
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Chinese scientist says cavemen ate pandas
This conclusion required a little bit of a logical leap.
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Sea otter that survived the Exxon Valdez spill dies at 23
She was the second to last otter survivor of the Exxon Valdez spill.
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Yet another reason birds are weird: They like to bathe in ants
For you, that might be a flashback to an acid trip. For birds, it’s … well, it almost definitely feels good.
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Bunny named after Hugh Hefner going extinct, Hefner somehow still alive
You'll want to get a good look at this cute-as-a-button Playboy(-related) Bunny.
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Soon we’ll be able to grow leather in a test tube
By the end of the year, scientists will have grown a piece of leather .787 inches by .787 inches in size, without killing an animal. That is the goal of a company called Modern Meadow, Fast Company reports, and its lab-grown leather could one day be even better than the dead-animal hides that we still […]
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After not seeing one for 33 years, Japanese government finally declares river otters extinct
When you truly love somebody that’s gone missing, you never admit that she’s gone, even if you’ve seen neither hide nor hair of her for 33 years. So now we know how the Japanese government feels about the Japanese river otter. Because the Ministry of the Environment just declared the river otter, last spotted in […]
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Mean Tasmanian devils get cancer; nice ones don’t
In the epic songs that Tasmanian devils sing in the future (assuming that Tasmanian devils can sing, and that there are any left to sing epic songs), this period will likely be known as one of suffering and retribution by some angry god for the unrighteous behavior that has spread among the devil population. Because […]
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One-fifth of creepy spineless animals could disappear forever
Most species are spineless piles of goo. That’s not a value judgment: About 80 percent of the world’s species are invertebrates, which actually do lack spines. Metaphorically, though, it is we who are the spineless piles of goo, for standing by while these creatures disappear. A new report from the Zoological Society of London found […]