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Bat Rays Are Sentient Ravioli of the Sea
Image: Monterey Bay Aquarium The superorder Batoidea, commonly known as “rays,” is full of stingy cuties. The bat ray (Myliobatis californica) is especially adorable, and tragically underrated. This week on Animals Are Good, we’re highlighting these happy little sea flaps and their unusual eating habits. As their scientific name suggests, bat rays live along the…
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The Black Death May Have Had a Surprising Effect on the Environment
Image: er madx/Flickr Creative Commons From 1347 to 1351, a nightmare disease ravaged Europe, afflicting victims with putrid black boils, fevers, vomiting, and in short order, death. Daily life ground to a halt as the Black Death spread along medieval trade routes, claiming an estimated 20 million lives with ruthless efficiency. Now, a team of…
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The Anteater’s Tongue Is an Evolutionary Masterpiece
The general morphology of the Greater Anteater tongue (Image: Daniel Casali) “All musculature involved in [chewing] is strongly related to the feeding habits of these organisms,” study author Daniel Casali at the Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil told Gizmodo. “Armadillos are generalists, some specialize in insects and…
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Hundreds of civilians killed in air strikes on IS
WASHINGTON – Certainly six hundred citizens are in the last few years were killed by air strikes of the international coalition against the Islamic State. That it appears from the figures that the coalition Friday published about the bombing between August 2014 and may 2017 are carried out in Iraq and Syria. The coalition emphasizes…
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Trump: it’s an honor to Putin to meet
HAMBURG – The American president Donald Trump called it the Friday will be a “honor” to his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin to meet. “We have several matters discussed. I think that it is very good,” said Trump against reporters while he was at the G20 in Hamburg next to the Russian leader sat. Also Putin…
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Suspicious attack Manchester arrested
LONDON – The British police has a nineteen-year-old man arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack in Manchester. Agents arrested the suspect at an airport in the Northern English city of Liverpool, reported to the police in Greater Manchester. For the bombing at the output of the Manchester Arena came in may, 22 people…
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Company RED has announced the first smartphone with a holographic display
Agree that lately the smartphones we ceased to surprise. Manufacturers strive to make them thinner, lighter, reduce the frame around the screen, but it’s all such minor improvements that they are happy. Revolution in this field was not for many years. And the famous RED, professional digital cameras which is used by almost all the…
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Student at London College has developed a finger-pristajko
A graduate of the Royal College of a Tribute to Claude created a prosthetic finger that can be attached to the hand, even if all the other fingers. Or rather, that’s what the “third finger” — so the developer named his gadget was created. The idea is to create a bridge appeared out of a…
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China will start to launch missiles from offshore platforms
The representative of Corporation of space science and technology of China news Agency Xinhua that the experts of the Corporation have started preparations for the implementation of launches of carrier rockets with water platforms. According to tan AGANA, an employee of the Corporation, the technology has been studied, therefore, its implementation of special difficulties is…
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Mike Pence Touches NASA Equipment Labeled ‘Do Not Touch’, Becomes Instant Meme
Mike Pence touring the Orion clean room at the NASA Kennedy Space Center (Original photo before alteration by Mike Brown/Reuters) Vice President Mike Pence made a big mistake during his tour of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center yesterday. He touched a piece of critical space flight hardware in the Orion clean room, despite the fact that…