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Hot pink animals
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Nature likes to be a little fabulous sometimes. That's why it makes hot pink animals including: fluorescent slugs from Australia; poisonous shocking pink dragon millipedes from Thailand; pink-bryozoan munching nudibranchs from California; and hairy squat lobsters.
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What are these green fuzzy balls?
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Fuzzy green aliens? Not quite, but that doesn't make the colony of living balls that took up residence on an Australian beach last weekend any less peculiar. "They're actually a really unusual growth form of seaweed, because seaweeds mostly grow on the rocks but occasionally they get knocked off and rolled around in the ocean forming these beautiful little balls. It's quite an unusual phenomenon, it's only been seen a handful of times around the world." Source: http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20142409-26225.html ...
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Beautiful blue bees
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These pretty little insects are blue-banded bees, native to Australia. They use a special technique called 'buzz pollination', which involves vibrating their bodies to shake particles of pollen free from flowers. Crops such as tomatoes, blueberries, eggplants and chillies rely on it.
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Animal that blinds its prey
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The Dana octopus squid ( Taningia danae) of the Pacific blinds its prey with flashes of light from its arms! It is believed that this highly maneuverable squid uses the bright flashes to disorientate potential prey. These flashes may also serve to illuminate the prey to make for easier capture as well as a courtship and territorial display.
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Become an astrobrewologist
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Launched into orbit three years ago, a vial of Scotland's 'space whisky' is due home so researchers can see how the conditions in space affect flavour. This is one small step for man, one giant leap for whisky.
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Is it a mushroom or an animal?
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These weird deep-sea animals, namely, Dendrogramma enigmatica and Dendrogramma discoides, discovered off the coast of Tasmania in 1986, have just been classified - and they're like no animal alive today. The animals' mostly non-symmetrical body plan is unique, which means they’re not part of the Bilateria group, one of the main animal groupings that includes humans.
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Animal hitchhikers
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Don't ask questions, just get on. Genets are small, mongoose-like felines found in Africa - and this one has been caught on camera hitching rides from at least two different species over the past month. This is the first time this behaviour has ever been seen in the mammal...
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Unearthed statues from ancient times
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An enormous tomb has been unearthed in northern Greece, guarded by two beautifully preserved female figures. It’s been dated to the time of Alexander the Great.
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See the world's tallest man
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Kösen's height was caused by the production of too much growth hormone due to a tumour in his pituitary gland. The tumour was eventually removed in 2010 through revolutionary gamma-knife surgery. Amge has a form of dwarfism, caused by a mutation in a bone growth gene.
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Albert Einstein in colour!
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This is a colourised photograph of Albert Einstein taken during a lecture in Vienna, Austria, in 1921. To create colourised images, digital artists take a black and white or sepia photograph and use historical references to work out which colours should go where. This photo was originally taken by Ferdinand Schmutzer and coloured by Dana Keller from History in Color.
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Oil company must pay for its sins
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A federal judge has passed down a ruling on the largest accidental marine oil spill (the Deepwater Horizon oil spill) in history, calling major players British Petroleum (BP) "reckless", and Transocean and Halliburton "negligent". BP is ordered to pay 17.6 billion for the damages it caused in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Let's just hope they don't end up spending that money on their military instead.
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