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Tech

A Fin Whale’s Weird ‘Stretchy Nerves’ Mean It Could Eat a Schoolbus For Lunch

02.16.17

By Farnia Fekri
Tech

Zodiacs and Crossbows: I Spent a Day Chasing Whales to Learn How to Study Them

09.01.16

By Justin Taus
News

One of the World’s Last Remaining Whaling Companies Is Hanging Up Its Harpoons

02.25.16

By Matt Smith
News

Whales Are Dying Off North America’s West Coast — And it Could Signal Trouble Deep in the Ocean

08.14.15

By Hilary Beaumont

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Life

Scientists Captured the Explosive Birth of a Solar Flare on Video

Researchers have finally caught a major solar flare in the act of being born. And even better, they got the entire thing on video.

3 hours ago

By Luis Prada
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Life

Ancient Kangaroos Were Absolutely Humongous, But They Could Still Hop

These kangaroo behemoths, covered in muscles, were theoretically roughly as springy as modern-day kangaroos.

3 hours ago

By Luis Prada
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Life

Meet The Mushroom That Makes People Have The Exact Same Hallucination

Scientists call them “lilliputian hallucinations,” a rare phenomenon involving miniature human or fantasy figures

4 hours ago

By Luis Prada
WWE

Entertainment

Uh Oh. Did Shinsuke Nakamura Just Reveal When AJ Styles Is Retiring From WWE?

4 hours ago

By Haley Miller
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Life

Alaska’s Beluga Whales Have Wild Sex Lives—and It Keeps Them Alive

4 hours ago

By Luis Prada