Can you remember the day, perhaps the moment, you met the person who would become your spouse? Well for an unnamed Chinese woman, it’s a day extremely difficult to forget—because she probably thought it would be her last. Whilst crossing the street on an electric bicycle, the 23-year-old looked over and…
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When presented with an unresponsive acquaintance, a mouse may attempt to revive them by pawing and gently biting at their face, scientists recently reported. A third behavior was also seen, however, and that involved the attendant mouse removing the unconscious peer’s tongue in a manner nearly identical to ‘clearing the airways,’…
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From the rooftop of a Rio de Janeiro slum, amid sheet after sheet of corrugated iron, one man reclines amid succulents and ficus. His name is Luis Cassiano Silva, and he is the progenitor of the Teto Verde Favela, or Green Roofs Favela initiative, described by one academic as an exercise…
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From the sands of Egypt’s Western Desert, a nearly complete skull of a prehistoric apex predator offers scientists the chance to understand ever so much about how climate change affects animal extinction. Belonging to a fully extinct order of carnivores called Hyaenodonts (hyena-teeth), the dozens of individuals that make up this…
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A bus stop in Fowey, England, has been getting artistic makeovers from creative locals for two decades. Dubbed the Pretty Bus Stop on Lankelly Lane in Cornwall, it was given its first makeover by Jane Tinsley after it became a target for anti-social behavior. Over the next 20 years the stop…
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Thousands of sea turtles have taken over a beach as part of the annual mass nesting of Olive Ridley turtles in India. The incredible video shows a seemingly endless stretch of beach in Odisha, with waves of turtles slogging ashore near the mouth of the Rushikulya River. According to Divisional Forest…
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A huge dinosaur footprint dating back 127 million years has been found on a UK beach after a rainstorm. A 23-year-old fossil guide spotted the three-toed print on the Isle of Wight. Joe Thompson says the one-meter long footprint revealed itself after storms stripped the beach of pebbles. The recent Bristol…
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