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Drillers under a Norwegian farm field expected the phosphate rock to stop about 1,000 feet down, and the cores kept coming up loaded until the ore was traced alm…

A 70-billion-metric-ton phosphate deposit found in southwestern Norway could supply the raw material for solar panels and ...
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Divers off northeast Taiwan touched a 6 foot giant oarfish hanging upright in shallow water with holes bitten through it, and a Japanese catalog of 336 sightings finds no ...

Divers filmed a living oarfish near Taiwan's coast, but a study of 336 deep-sea fish sightings dating back to 1928 found no ...
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North Atlantic orcas invented a hunting trick so precise it stuns up to 15 fish at once and no other killer whale on Earth does it

Discover how North Atlantic orcas use a unique hunting technique to stun fish. This precise method is unmatched by any other ...
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A 2,425 pound military ground robot was craned off a warship into the Atlantic and paddled ashore on its own eight tires, at a top water speed of about three miles an …

A Canadian-built ground robot was dropped from a warship off Portugal and navigated back to the beach alone, the first time ...
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Scientists covered sea cucumber ponds with solar panels to create an “artificial eclipse,” and the younger animals ended their summer hibernation 12 days earlier

Researchers covered sea cucumber ponds with solar panels to create an “artificial eclipse,” and the younger animals ended ...
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Bats were built to rule the skies, so when one fell into a creek and swam across it like an Olympic athlete, scientists had a lot of explaining to do

Discover how a bat swam across a creek with surprising skill, challenging our understanding of its abilities and adaptations ...
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Researchers fitted 119 female grouse with GPS tags beside six South Dakota wind farms and found the birds kept nesting there, while mothers with chicks avoided th…

Researchers tracked female grouse near South Dakota wind farms and found the birds kept nesting there, while mothers with ...
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Sonar mapped 27,000 barrels on the seafloor off Los Angeles, and the white halos ringing a third of them sit in sediment as caustic as household bleach rather than th…

Researchers probed 5 mystery barrels on the seafloor off Los Angeles and found caustic alkaline waste, not DDT, creating dead ...
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Thousands of bumblebee catfish were filmed hauling themselves up 13 feet of wet vertical rock beside a waterfall on a Brazilian river at dusk, and every stomach the te…

Thousands of orange-and-black bumblebee catfish were filmed scaling a 13-foot waterfall on Brazil's Aquidauana River — a ...
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While the West hangs onto summer, the Great Lakes may get an early taste of fall as Canadian air slips south during the first half of September

Cooler Canadian air could bring a taste of fall to parts of the Great Lakes during September, while the West continues to ...
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NOAA found a ghost-white octopus 14,000 feet below Hawaii, watched its relatives lay eggs on dead sponge stalks, and 10 years later the animal still cannot be officiall…

Octopus discovery highlights a rare ghost-white species that, 10 years later, remains officially unnamed because no specimen ...
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More than 5,200 seafloor craters sit off the Big Sur coast and everyone assumed escaping gas had blown them open, but the robots that went down found no meth…

Underwater robots mapped the Sur Pockmark Field off Central California and found mud avalanches, not methane, have maintained ...