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![a python with a wide open mouth swallows a white rat whole](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/python.jpg?quality=85&w=800)
Environment
How pythons can eat such giant meals
![a group of earthworms in rich, dark soil](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/worms-soil.png?quality=85&w=800)
Environment
Hear the ‘rave’-like sounds of a healthy soil
![roach at home](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cockroach.jpg?quality=85&w=800)
Environment
Roach sprays don’t work
![The Darvaza Gas Crater is actually man-made: in the 1970s, Soviet engineers were doing gas explorations in the area, and made a whole mass of land sink in to reveal Darvaza. They subsequently set the sinkhole on fire - it has been burning to this day and remains a major tourist attraction.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/gas-crater.jpg?quality=85&w=675)
Environment
Earth is covered in ‘Gates of Hell’
![Ontocetus posti has post-canine teeth, a larger lower canine, and a fused and short mandibular symphysis.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/walrus.jpg?quality=85&w=800)
Environment
New species of extinct walrus discovered
![a long grey sediment core taken from the earth's mantle](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sediment-core.png?quality=85&w=800)
Environment
Longest rocks ever recovered from Earth’s mantle
![four different types of corn. one is long and yellow, the other is shorter and yellow. the other two are shorter and black](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/corn-gene-2.jpg?quality=85&w=800)
Environment
Love corn? Thank interbreeding
![The newly discovered Paragonaster hoeimaruae. There are many types of starfish and this one is particularly adapted to living in sandy, muddy waters, a feature the researchers want to learn more about.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/new-starfish-1.png?quality=85&w=800)
Environment
New, vibrant starfish discovered in Japan
![A rare visitor, a Mandarin Duck, showed up in Central Park, New York City in 2018.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/hot-duck.jpg?quality=85&w=800)
Environment
Why are there so many birds?
![offshore windfarm](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/offshore-wind.jpg?quality=85&w=800)
Environment
Environmentally, offshore wind is… fine
![aerial drone view of an industrial installation that produces per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/PFAS-Factory.jpg?quality=85&w=800)
Climate Change
LED lights may be key to breaking down forever chemicals
![four red hens in a line. two are looking straight ahead, one is looking right, and the other is looking left. they have an expression that reads as suprise](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/red-hens.png?quality=85&w=800)
Agriculture