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Pirate spiders ambush prey by tricking them with lines of silk: A species of pirate spider in Costa Rica has a hunting strategy that has never been documented before in any spider
https://archive.ph/ji7kj

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Researchers have identified a new pack of endangered gray wolves in California: A new pack of gray wolves has shown up in California's Sierra Nevada, several hundred miles away from any other known population of the endangered species
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-endangered-gray-wolves-california.html

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Awww look at the little friends who have visited me today!!

They're happy with a mouthful of peanuts. What is something simple that makes you happy too? :3

A chipmunk next to a small pile of peanuts.
A black squirrel happily munching on a peanut.
Another view of the cute black squirrel.

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Bizarre-Looking Colossus Whale May Have Been Heaviest Animal Ever (Sorry, Blue Whales): “I’ve never seen anything like it,” says a paleontologist not involved in the discovery of a 40-million-year-old fossilized whale
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bizarre-looking-colossus-whale-may-have-been-heaviest-animal-ever-sorry-blue-whales/

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What a story!
That one time...at Fermilab...when physicists sent a ferret into a particle accelerator...
[It really happened in 1971]
https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-true-story-physicists-once-put-a-ferret-in-a-particle-accelerator

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This is a 440-pound heart from a blue whale, the largest known animal to ever exist. The heart was so large that technicians had to douse it in 1,000 gallons of formaldehyde. Read more about it here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/painstaking-process-preserving-blue-whales-heart-180964038/

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