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The Defector Crewneck Sweatshirt Is Back In Stock

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Sabrina Imbler

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

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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?

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Barry Petchesky

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Animals

I Have Created A Turkey Fiend

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

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These Beautiful Wolves Are Freaks For Nectar

a profile shot of a mummified saber-tooth kitten, which looks like a big brown cat

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This Saber-Toothed Kitten Mummy Is So Stinking Cute That I’m Gonna Cry!

a pygmy seahorse that is red and pink with little bumps on its body hides in a coral that looks exactly like it

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A Small And Beautiful Seahorse Reveals An Even Smaller And Reclusive Worm

a mossy stick insect of the species Trychopeplus mashpiensis dangling from some moss

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Mossy Stick Insect STUNS In New Photos

A 16 foot sculpture of a pigeon named dinosaur at the Highline in New York City on November 4, 2024. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/AFP)

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The Big Pigeon Isn’t Scary Enough