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A fish so shaggy and strange that scientists named it after a Sesame Street mammoth went unidentified for over two decades

Discover the newly identified ghost pipefish, *Solenostomus snuffleupagus*, named after a Sesame Street character, revealing ...
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Texas finally opened its first new state park in 25 years, and an endangered songbird no one expected showed up on day one

Discover Texas's first new state park in 25 years and the surprise arrival of the endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler. Explore Palo Pinto's diverse ecosystems!
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Pilots kept reporting eerie green and yellow flashes during takeoff until investigators traced them to a place once considered perfect for solar panels

Near what was considered to be a perfect location for a solar project, pilots reported eerie green and yellow flashes of ...
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This “ghost” wind farm doesn’t have a single turbine yet, but engineers are already drilling into the seabed for a project meant to power 2 million homes

Near Scotland, engineers are already working beneath the sea for a wind farm that technically does not exist yet. Yet ...
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A hydroelectric dam ran dry until an entire lost world emerged from the bottom—78 houses, mosques, and tombs frozen in time from before the Roman Empire

At a hydroelectric dam project, water receded to unveil a lost world buried underwater and proved that several cultures ...
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A golf-ball-sized blue octopus spotted crawling across the Galapagos seafloor turned out to be a creature science had never seen before

Discover the newly identified blue octopus, *Microeledone galapagensis*, found in the Galápagos, showcasing the ocean's ...
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Scientists looked beneath an Italian solar park and found tiny creatures living completely different lives depending on which side of the panels they called home

Researchers have found that several tiny creatures are behaving differently at a solar park in Italy depending on which side ...
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Crickets caught tending their own wounds have scientists rethinking what insects actually feel

The study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, was straightforward by design. Researchers randomly assigned ...
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A wind farm started tracking nearby birds with GPS until the data revealed something strange: the more turbines rose, the slower the birds moved

Forests in central Sweden once echoed with the heavy wingbeats of capercaillie moving freely between feeding grounds. Then the turbines started appearing gradually. Roads cut deeper into woodland ...
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After more than a century of debate, scientists have finally proven that a pianist’s touch can change the very color of sound

Scientists have confirmed that a pianist’s touch can subtly change the color and character of sound, ending a debate that ...
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Coal miners in India were digging underground until they uncovered a 50-foot monster that once fought for survival alongside Earth’s most terrifying predators

A crew of coal miners in India were digging in the ground until they unearthed a 50-foot monster that lived during one of the ...