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NYC: Come To The Distraction LIVE On October 4

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Live Event


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Sabrina Imbler

A photo of a beautiful tortoise beetle adult, with a gold and brown shell ringed with blue.

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Creaturefector

These Baby Beetle Backpacks Are Made Of Poop

An Animorphs-like grid showing how bite marks in the deep-sea overlay perfectly with a rattail mouth

Maker Of Mysterious Horseshoes On The Seafloor Finally Revealed

Tourists snorkel next to a whale shark, the largest fish in the world in the Gulf of California, in a protected area, as part of a whale shark watching tour at Bahía de La Paz

Sharks’ Best PR Team Might Be Working Too Hard

Two wild Przewalski's horses nuzzle each other in a field.

The Real Horse-Wives Of Hortobágy Aren’t Here To Hurt Feelings, But They Will Stirrup Trouble

An alligator is seen near the 14th green during the first round of the Valspar Championship on the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Florida

Teen Gators Are Getting Into Golf

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Science

It’s OK That Ötzi The 5,000-Year-Old Ice Man Was Not Hot

Jonquel Jones #35 of the New York Liberty accepts the MVP trophy after the team's 82-63 victory over the Las Vegas Aces in the 2023 Commissioner's Cup Championship game at Michelob ULTRA Arena on August 15, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Life Lessons

How A Fat Baseball Ass And Four Lesbians Turned Me Into A Sports Fan

A very cute hadal snailfish that is blue and chunky and appears to be smiling

A Unified Theory Of Deep-Sea Fish Aesthetics; Or, The Deeper You Go The Cuter They Get

3D models of a parrotfish and trumpetfish are pulled on a line across a sandy reef.

Trumpetfish Are Champions Of Hide And Sneak

A reconstruction of the ancient enormous whale Perucetus colossus

Why He Look Like That?