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The following is an excerpt from “Compost After Reading: A Practical Manifesto for Purposeful Decomposition” by Cassandra Marketos. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this ...

The first two butterflies in this display show a normal male and female. All the others are gynandromorphs, revealing a mix of male and female patterning. Image by Nipam Patel This is no ordinary ...

Researchers just published details of a massive undersea graveyard of whales deep in the Indian Ocean. Spanning about 1,200 kilometers (745 miles), it contains whale remains dating back more than 5 ...