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UCG/Contributor/Getty Images A Massive Chimp Community Collapsed Into Civil War, and the Details Are Horrifying
Researchers say this split turned a once-cooperative chimp community into a campaign of factional killing.
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Daniel Garrido/Getty Images New Tarantula Species Discovered With Freakishly Large Sex Organ
What makes it so special? These Satyrex spiders have a bigger palp than any other spider recorded in this group.
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Windsurfer Gets Wrecked by Whale in San Francisco Bay in Crazy Video
…that looked like it hurt.
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Image Credit: Pacifique Kiwele Mutambala These Tiny Fish Climb a 50-Foot Waterfall Every Year. Scientists Still Don’t Know Why.
It sounds like a legend or a lie, but it’s real, and researchers finally just got proof.
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StHelena/Getty Images Why Scammers Faked the Death of Jonathan, the World’s Oldest Tortoise
As the old saying goes, a lie can travel around the world before the truth can get its pants on.
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Bad News About That Corgi Leading a Pack of Stolen Dogs Home
The story gained traction not because it was true, but because it felt true. Or, maybe more accurately, people wanted it to be true.
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Manuel Romaris/Getty Images Hummingbirds Drink a Ton of Alcoholic Nectar, But Do They Get Drunk?
We are desperate to know whether we have drinking buddies out there in the animal kingdom.
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Little Corgi Leads 7 Stolen Dogs 10 Miles Back Home, and People Are Obsessed
The video of the dogs has racked up over 230 million views, as it seems specifically engineered for wild social media success.
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Silaphop Pongsai/Getty Images Freaky New Spider Disguises Itself as Zombie Fungus to Hunt Prey
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, researchers have identified a spider species that survives by playing dead.
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Wildestanimal/Getty Images Whales Were Filmed Headbutting Each Other for the First Time. Why Are They Doing It?
Scientists have, for the first time, captured clear footage of sperm whales repeatedly ramming each other headfirst.
