environment
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Ghostly White Roly Poly Bug Discovered in the Deep Sea
Meet the animal kingdom’s newest little guy. This is Booralana nickorum, a recently described species of deep-sea isopod found in The Bahamas. It is a cirolanid isopod—a member of the family Cirolanidae—and is only the second species of its genus described from the Western North Atlantic. Deep-sea isopods are cousins of terrestrial roly-polies, also known…
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Zoo Hopes Plan to Introduce Famous Cursing Parrots to Larger Flock Doesn’t Backfire
The Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in the UK is trying a new plan to contain its growing group of foul-mouthed African grey parrots. The zoo will introduce the expletive-loving birds to a larger flock in hopes that the other parrots will pass along their good manners. But there is a chance that the experiment will only…
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The Sun Just Spewed Material From Opposite Sides in Rare Phenomenon
No, you’re not seeing double. The Sun flung out two massive flares of radiation from opposite hemispheres at nearly the same exact moment, a sign that our host star is fast approaching a period of peak activity. In a rare moment captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory on Monday, two sunspots can be seen erupting…
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Sierra Space Built an Inflatable Space Module the Size of a House, Then Blew It Up
You can’t fly an inflatable module to space without bursting a few on Earth. Sierra Space watched its giant, 20-foot-tall space station module explode in dramatic fashion, but the company wasn’t too stressed about it. In fact, it marked a successful test on the road to building the first commercial space station in low Earth…