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I Shall Never Mess Up Again


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Sabrina Imbler

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Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups?

Split image. The lefthand side is Olivia Nuzzi attends the 2023 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at Washington Hilton on April 29, 2023 in Washington, DC. She's wearing a leopard longsleeve top and has long blonde hair and is smiling tightly at the camera. On the right side is an image of a purple blob of some sort.

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Politics

Olivia Nuzzi Addresses The Worm

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Drop Whatever You’re Doing Right This Instant, There’s Big Spider Web News

A pack of Nanotyrannus attacking a juvenile T. rex.

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Let Us Now Celebrate Our Extinct Short King, Nanotyrannus

a photo of the microscopic flatworm Stenostomum simplex, which looks like a worm with green balls inside its body.

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Exclusive! A Revealing And Not Made-Up Interview With A Two-Headed Worm

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Why Do Some Spiders Make Web Art?

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Fat AND Sassy? A Three-Legged Lizard Really Can Have It All

a wild octopus americanus, arms unspooled and curling

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Unlike Our Stupid Human Arms, Octopus Arms Are All Equally Beautiful And Talented

a spotted ratfish, which is a brownish fish with white spots and a white spot between its eyes

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Why Not Have A Rod Of Teeth On Your Forehead For Sex Reasons?

two winged male ants: Messor ibericus (left) and Messor structor (right) against a black background

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Everything You Need To Know About The Girlboss Ants That Give Birth To Another Species In Order To Exploit Their Offspring (Slay Ant Queen!)

a swarm of bumblebee catfish climbing the vertical rock of a waterfall

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Where Are You Going, Fish?

an illustration of two bats together, one with a rat. the next panel shows the two bats biting the rat together

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Brother May I Have Some Rat

A photo of a green fla-necked chameleon posing against a swirly yellow and green background

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Chameleons Endure Tiny Knock To Colorful Reputation

Adelie penguins on nests, Antarctica.

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How Climate Change Is Transforming The Soundtrack Of The Natural World

a 3D-printed crab named Wavy Dave is waving his claw at a fiddler crab in the distance

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The Brief Adventures Of Wavy Dave

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Behold: A Surprisingly Beautiful Depiction Of Being Swallowed By A Toothy Penis Worm

the behind of a chimp named Juma, who is displaying a behavior called grass-in-rear, in which a strand of grass dangles from his rectum

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Innovation Strikes In The Field Of Chimpanzee Rectum Adornment

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Why Do Flamingos Eat So Weird?

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The “Tooth Hurty” Joke Has Its Origins In Ancient, Armored Fish

Picture of Colossal’s Dire Wolves; Romulus and Remus at age three months. Born 10/1/2024

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Colossal Biosciences Can’t Have It Both Ways

three bone collector caterpillars, which are caterpillars covered in the bodies of insects they've eaten

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The Very Grisly Caterpillar

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Yes, I Attacked That Woman, And I’d Do It Again

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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