Grist List
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Baby sea lion found lounging in luxury at San Diego hotel
This baby sea lion appreciates the finer things in life. Like napping in a chair at a fancy hotel.
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You can tour a Fukushima ghost town on Google Street View
Now that its 21,000 residents have been evacuated, Namie-Machi is full of empty streets and ruined buildings, and you can see what that's like with your own eyes.
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China’s finless porpoises are going extinct
In over 2,000 miles of the Yangtze river, the World Wildlife Fund found only 380 of these smiley critters.
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Walmart is ‘crowdsourcing’ by getting customers to make its deliveries
We have a different buzzword for this plan: "cheaping out."
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What’s inside this squid? Oh my god, it’s a bomb!
A fisherman found a bomb in a squid. No. The squid is not OK.
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This video of a dolphin carrying her dead baby will make you cry and cry and cry
If you're already having a bad Thursday, DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO.
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American Bird Conservancy discovers four new bird species: Blue, teal, pink, and purple Peeps
The marshmallow Peep is the American Bird Conservancy's bird of the week, and ornithologists now recognize blue, teal, pink, and purple species.
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Baby giraffe is impossibly adorable, good news for an endangered subspecies
There's a new Rothschild giraffe in Connecticut. Watch it stand up for the first time.
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Man presumptuously kidnaps 13 percent of an entire turtle species
A man was arrested in Bangkok smuggling 54 ploughshare turtles. There are only 400 of the species in the wild.
