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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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Defector

The Defector Crewneck Sweatshirt Is Back In Stock

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Sabrina Imbler

A lady lifts a comically small Shetland pony out of a van in Germany.

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Animals

Pumuckel The 20-Inch Pony Has Other Mini-Horses Quaking In Their Hooves

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Turtles Have Been Vocalizing All This Time. Why Did We Not Listen?

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Barry Petchesky

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Folks, We’ve Got A New Animal Friendship

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A Modest Proposal: Eat Some Of Your Children, For The Antioxidants

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Let Us Celebrate Bubulle, The Goldfish That Flunked

An illustration and CT scan of an aye-aye putting its extremely long flexible finger inside its nose.

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How Does The Aye-Aye’s Finger Go So Deep Inside Their Nose?

A photo of the Bass Pro Shops Pyramid at night

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Every Creature I Met At The Bass Pro Shops Pyramid

A photo of an enormous dead sunfish, which is a strange-looking pale fish with triangle fins, hooked to a crane with a person examining the fish

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I Wish We Didn’t Know About the Heaviest Bony Fish Ever Found

on a high-altitude cliff, a mountain goat intimidates a trio of bighorn sheep

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Mountain Goats Keep Winning

Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar waving a bland hello except his bottom half is long trailing jellyfish tentacles

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The Machines

We Can Do So Much Better Than Legs

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How Many Ants Is The Right Number Of Ants For There To Be?

A close up of the illustration of a fish barfing out a frog

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Welcome To Jurassic Puke

A tiny orange frog sitting by a pool of water inside the leaf of a bromeliad plant.

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Nowhere Is Safe From Our Garbage

A tiny pink snake attempting to swallow a giant centipede.

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Why Do Snakes Eat Things Big Enough To Kill Them?

A general view of Trix the female the T-Rex exhibition at the Naturalis or Natural History Museum of Leiden on October 17, 2016 in Leiden, Netherlands. The skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex was excavated in 2013 in Montana, USA, by Naturalis Biodiversity Center. The fossil is part of the Naturalis collection and is more than 80% of the bone volume present. All essential and high­volume bones are in place. This places Trix in the top 3 ranking of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons in the world. In addition, all the bones are extremely well preserved. The quality of this fossil is unmatched by any other large T-Rex find in the world.

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The T. Rex Species Saga, Explained

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Let The Shipworms Eat Captain Cook’s Ship, It’s What Everyone Involved Deserves

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Freya The Walrus Should Still Be Alive

Two brown-lipped snails, cepea nemoralis, on the concrete.

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I Must Protect The Snails In My Backyard From Myself

A screenshot of a pink spaghetti worm glimpsed on the deep sea by a Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ROV

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Do You Dare Twirl Your Fork In The Spaghetti Worm?

ALLEN PARK, MICHIGAN - JULY 27: Dan Campbell, head coach of the Detroit Lions during the Detroit Lions Training Camp on July 27, 2022 in Allen Park, Michigan. (Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images)

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What Creature Does Dan Campbell Think Would Be Great At Football?

A straight line of rectangular holes in the seafloor, with the metal parts of a remotely operated vehicle visible at the bottom of the image.

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Let Me Stick My Hand Inside The Mysterious Holes On The Seafloor

A mysterious jellyfish with one long tentacle

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Silence The Terrors Of The Terrestrial World With NOAA’s Deep-Sea Livestream

The new fossil fish, Qikiqtania wakei, with its famous cousin Tiktaalik below.

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New Fossil Fish Flirted With The Idea Of Legs But Kept On Swimming

The stingray Potamotrygon jabuti, collected from the Tapajós river.

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Rays Week

Where Did All These Freshwater Stingrays Come From?

A manta ray perches at a cleaning station, where tiny fish clean its skin. The Ray Week logo is also here in the bottom left corner, featuring easter egg remoras.

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The Ocean’s Hottest Club Is A Manta Ray