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New Study on Manta Rays Reveals Their Hidden Lives

New Study on Manta Rays Reveals Their Hidden LivesNews from PlanetSave.com: The first study on manta rays to use satellite telemetry has just been released. Tracking the long journeys, of the giant, up to 25 feet wide manta ray. The … Continue reading

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Mayan calendar discovery suggests world might not end in 2012 (+video)

Mayan calendar discovery suggests world might not end in 2012 (+video)News from Christian Science Monitor: A new discovery indicates that Mayan astronomers believed that the universe would continue past 2012.  Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes … Continue reading

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Apocalypse never: Newly discovered Mayan calendar further disproves doomsday myth

Apocalypse never: Newly discovered Mayan calendar further disproves doomsday mythNews from Digitaltrends.com: Scientists have uncovered the oldest-known Mayan calendar ever discovered — and it further shows that all this December 21, 2012, apocalypse talk is a bunch of hooey. The … Continue reading

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Mars sand dunes show rapidly shifting environment

Mars sand dunes show rapidly shifting environmentNews from GlobalPost: New images from NASA of shifting sand dunes on Mars prove that they are speedier than once thought. The new data contradict beliefs that the surface of Mars was static and … Continue reading

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World’s Rarest Gorilla Caught on Film

World’s Rarest Gorilla Caught on FilmNews from Our Amazing Planet: A still from the new video shows Cross River gorillas in their forest home.CREDIT: Wildlife Conservation Society. The rarest gorilla on Earth, the elusive Cross River gorilla, has been caught … Continue reading

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Belching dinosaurs may have helped keep their world a hot one

Belching dinosaurs may have helped keep their world a hot oneNews from Ars Technica: A cool looking animal, but possibly a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. The world inhabited by dinosaurs was typically a hot one, with high levels … Continue reading

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Wayward Bolsa Chica dolphin may have returned to sea, experts say

Wayward Bolsa Chica dolphin may have returned to sea, experts sayNews from Los Angeles Times: The wayward dolphin who mistakenly made its way into the Bolsa Chica wetlands last month appears to have returned to sea. Officials with the National … Continue reading

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Images: By the light of the ‘supermoon’

Images: By the light of the ‘supermoon’News from Chicago Daily Herald: The “supermoon” appears behind the Mare shantytown complex Sunday in Rio de Janeiro. The moon was the closest it will get to the Earth this year, and it appeared … Continue reading

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Supermoon to light up the night sky tonight

Supermoon to light up the night sky tonightNews from USA TODAY: NEW YORK (AP) – The biggest and brightest full moon of the year arrives Saturday night as our celestial neighbor passes closer to Earth than usual. By Julio Cortez, … Continue reading

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Saturday’s “Super Moon” Will Be Year’s Brightest

Saturday’s “Super Moon” Will Be Year’s BrightestNews from Patch.com: Saturday night we will have a full moon on the same night that the moon is at its nearest point in its orbit to Earth — known as perigee. Though this … Continue reading

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