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During WWII, England poisoned sheep with anthrax on an idyllic Scottish island

Gruinard Island remained toxic for nearly 50 years—until activists started delivering buckets of dirt.

By RJ Mackenzie

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Python incentives and education specialist, Robert Edman, with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, demonstrates how to catch a python during an event promoting the Florida Python Challenge 2020 Python Bowl on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. The python challenge is a conservation effort that includes public outreach on the invasive pythons and a ten day competition to remove pythons from the Florida Everglades. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald/TNS)
Wildlife

Florida Python Challenge winner slayed 96 snakes

Veteran hunter Tom Rahill has battled the invasive species for over 10 years.

By Andrew Paul

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Birds

Bald eaglets Sandy and Luna leave Big Bear Valley, Shadow gets a little vacation

The Ojai Raptor Center also provided an update on mom Jackie.

By Laura Baisas

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Evolution

Poop made life on Earth possible. Yes, poop.

540 million years ago, nutrient-filled feces helped spread complex organisms.

By Andrew Paul

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Space Telescope

Extraordinarily rare supernova death spotted 500 million light-years from Earth

It’s an explosive case of CSI: Space.

By Andrew Paul

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Wildlife

Pumas can help prevent car crashes

The big cats can keep deer away from roads, according to new research.

By Margherita Bassi

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Sun

Plasma waves spotted on sun’s surface for the first time

The ‘small’ vortices were found using the world’s largest solar telescope.

By Andrew Paul

a sea turtle wearing a satellite tag on its shell walks back into the ocean
Endangered Species

Rescued sea turtle named Pancake swims to hot hangout for young turtles

The critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle was recently released from Coney Island, New York.

By Laura Baisas

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Space X

An abandoned SpaceX rocket likely crashed into the moon this morning. The real problem comes next.

By Gregory Radisic / The Conversation

Reconstruction of ‘Spea labreae, sp. nov.’ (dark spadefoots, center and right) in La Brea Tar Pits compared with ‘Spea hammondii’ (light spade-foot, left), the species currently present in the area, and the presence of the Mexican burrowing toad (‘Rhinophrynidae,’ bottom).
Evolution

Forgotten fossil from 1950s is actually a new species of Ice Age frog

The spadefoot toad is the second Ice Age amphibian ever found in North America.

By Laura Baisas

an eagle glares directly at a camera
Birds

Do not share fake images of Jackie the bald eagle

‘Every unnecessary interruption takes time and focus away from the animals depending on us.’

By Laura Baisas

Ants cooperating on branch to lift leaf
Wildlife

Unlike humans, ants work better in larger groups

More ants, less problems.

By Andrew Paul

Megalodon tooth with layers of polymetallic deposits atop a NOAA Ocean Exploration towel
Sharks

Massive, metal-encrusted megalodon teeth litter deep ocean floor

NOAA’s Cook Islands expedition has returned multiple specimens from the extinct giants.

By Andrew Paul

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