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• 8 fierce animals show just how metal nature is

  11-10-2026 21:00 via popsci.com
  
  Nature. It’s beautiful. It’s awe-inspiring. And it’s really scary. The new book Nature is Metal: It’s A Life-Eats-Life World features full-color photographs and vivid descriptions of the physical features, survival adaptations, and hunting skills innate to 75 of nature’s most metal plants, animals, and natural phenomena. Browse through some of these raw and real images in the gallery below. (Click to expand images to full screen.)A golden eagle (Aquila chrysaet
  
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• Young parrot rescued from grips of invasive boa snake

  11-10-2026 19:09 via popsci.com
  
  In the Maricao State Forest on the western end of Puerto Rico, a biologist encountered a flock of parrots in a panic. Raúl Correa of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service followed the chaotic squawks and found a young bird in the grips of a red-tailed boa (Boa constrictor).The snake had trapped a juvenile Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata) on a bamboo stalk. Correa quickly sliced the bamboo, causing the snake to lose its grip and release the bird. USFWS observed the parrot after the incid
  
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• ‘One of the ocean’s best-kept secrets’ spotted near Massachusetts

  11-10-2026 17:17 via popsci.com
  
  As the summer drew to a close, aerial surveyors with the New England Aquarium saw more than 2,000 animals across 15 different marine species in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, southeast of Cape Cod. Among that vast diversity, the team spotted Chilean devil rays (Mobula tarapacana). This ethereal fish is “one of the ocean’s best-kept secrets,” according to the aquarium.“We rarely see Chilean devil rays on our aerial surveys,” Katherine M
  
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• Can carnivorous plants eat people?

  11-10-2026 13:56 via popsci.com
  
  Anyone who’s seen the 1986 musical comedy, Little Shop of Horrors, is familiar with Audrey II. Audrey II looks like a towering, blood-eating Venus flytrap plant, even mimicking the jaw-like, snapping pod of real carnivorous plants. But while Venus flytraps consume insects, Audrey II feeds on humans. Thankfully, people-eating plants are fictional, says Kenny Coogan, the owner of Carnivorous Plants by Kenny Coogan, a well-known nursery in North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad area. 
  
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• Scientists Say the Secret to a Happier, Healthier Society May Begin in Childhood

  11-10-2026 04:28 via scitechdaily.com
  How children are raised may matter for social well-being worldwide, with surveys across three culturally different countries linking supportive childhoods to adults’ trust and sense of belonging. At home, a child seeking comfort depends on a caregiver’s response, while time for free play offers room to explore. A University of Nottingham-led study linked these experiences, [...]
  
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• This Crystal Uses Sunlight To Turn Water Into Clean Hydrogen

  11-10-2026 03:17 via scitechdaily.com
  A crystal that uses light to produce hydrogen from water could open a new route to cleaner, more affordable fuel. Hydrogen can power a fuel cell car, yet making that fuel from natural gas releases carbon dioxide before it ever reaches the tank. Water offers another source of hydrogen, but separating its hydrogen atoms from [...]
  
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• This 345-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fooled Scientists for Decades

  11-10-2026 02:06 via scitechdaily.com
  A famous Scottish fossil is forcing scientists to rethink what claw-like feet really reveal about the move onto land. Pressed flat inside two slabs of Scottish rock, a 345-million-year-old skeleton seemed to carry some unmistakable signs of life on land. Its four limbs ended in five-digit feet, and the tips of its fingers and toes [...]
  
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