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This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

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NYC: Come To Our WNBA Comedy Show On May 16

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Live Event


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Sabrina Imbler

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Creaturefector

This Leaf Tip Ain’t Big Enough For The Two Of Us

1990s Single Male Anna Hummingbird Calypte Anna Western USA And Canada (Photo by T. Ulrich/Classicstock/Getty Images)

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The Hummingbirds Brought Me Around

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Do Not Be Bamboozled By The New Fluffy Mouse

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Clownfish Fatten Up Their Best Buddies To Upgrade Their Homes

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I Tried A Cockatoo’s Innovative New Snack

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This Is The Last Thing You See Before You Die (If You Are A Crab)

a photo of a flock of whitish swimming sea cucumbers in the deep sea

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It’s Snowing Sea Cucumbers At The Bottom Of The Sea

an image of a fly larva (maggot) that has the face of a termite

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Hell Yeah: This Maggot Has A Face On Its Butt

a baby loggerhead turtle does a happy turtle dance inside a bucket of water

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Are You Entranced By The Turtle Dance?

A Blue Whale swimming underwater is showing her tail fin

Cautious Whales Sing In A Whisper Orcas Cannot Hear

a chimpanzee stares out between the leaves

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Chimpanzee Culture Is Disappearing Because Of Us

a pink Amazon River Dolphin floating on back in slightly brown water

Think River Dolphins Don’t Piss On Each Other? Urine For A Surprise

a tiger named Elena seemingly retching after she has just sampled elephant dung

Picture by Tambako the Jaguar

Normalize Eating Poop

a hummingbird visiting a flower with itty-bitty white mites on its beak

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A Mite’s Leap Of Electric Faith Into A Hummingbird Nostril

a gif of a little frog called a cricket frog leaping across the surface of the water, but becoming entirely submerged when it lands

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This Frog Is In Its Belly Flop Era

a small brown shrew called the Mount Lyell shrew in a natural environment

Lyell Shrew on Natural Background

Much Ado About Shrew

a silvery fish called a delta smelt in a litle cup

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Politics

This Week In Maligned Little Fish

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Tahlequah Grieves Again

A photo of a brown armored catfish that has been named the blob-headed catfish for its extremely sizable blob-shaped face/schnoz region

Blob-Headed Fish Sets New Standard Of Fishy Blobbiness

A still from a video capturing a red male cardinal staring menacingly at his reflection in the side-view mirror of a white car

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It’s So Confusing Sometimes To Be A Bird

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Who Was The Fly Who Died In My House?

A clam known as a heart cockle, which is shaped like a heart with a red-and-white striped border, against a white background

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There Are Clam Cathedrals Everywhere For Those With The Eyes To See

A somewhat haunting magenta sphere with what appears to be a mouth and a series of spikes. this is a reconstruction of the ancient creature Saccorhytus

Was This Half-Billion-Year-Old Wrinkled Sack With No Anus, Previously Believed To Be Our Earliest Ancestor, Actually A Baby Penis Worm?

Life reconstruction of Ninumbeehan dookoodukah in a palaeoenvironment reconstruction depicting its life and burrowing across seasons. (a) Ninumbeehan is resting on the edge of a river with a low water table as the wet season ends. (b) A small community of Ninumbeehan are in their estivation burrows at the apex of the arid season. (c) The onset of the humid season brings rain, triggering a mass emergence of Ninumbeehan from their estivation burrows.

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How A Sleepy Ancient Amphibian Became A Link To An Endangered Language

An Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) licks nectar from the Ethiopian red hot poker flower (Kniphofia foliosa). the wolf is really into it