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These Weird Quirks Make the Kiwi One of the Most Unusual Birds Out There
No other bird finds its food the way a New Zealand kiwi does.
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What Looks Like an Owl, Blends in With a Tree, and Smells Like a Skunk?
Meet a strange-looking Australian bird with a big personality and a beak to match.
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Learn How 150 California Bighorn Sheep Have Made This Island Their Own
On this fascinating island on the Great Salt Lake, see how fast and gracefully these rams can move on steep, rocky slopes.
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Learn What Makes Oustalet's Chameleons Some of the Most Amazing Lizards on the Planet
Some lesser known facts Oustalet's chameleon Native to Madagascar Can grow up to 2 feet long One of the largest on the planet did you know a ___ tongue, which is spring-loaded and shoots forward much like a bow and arrow, can extend to...
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Amazing and Interesting Facts about the Platypus, An Strange One in the Animal Kingdom
The platypus is even weirder than it looks.
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Check Out This Huge Lizard as it Wedges Itself Between Rocks When it Feels Threatened
Learn five fun facts about the chuckwalla, the second largest lizard in the United States that grows up to 18 inches long.
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Watch as These Curious Penguins Meet Two New Additions to the Colony
See the penguins splash and play in chilly waters.
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Meet 'Speed': the Oldest Animal in the Entire San Diego Zoo
Galapagos tortoises have developed some pretty amazing adaptations. Learn all about these big, gentle giants.
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Check Out This Giraffe's Crazy Long Tongue in Action
Go behind the scenes of the giraffe exhibit at the San Diego Zoo for some facts that will change how you look at these giant, beautiful animals.
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OTD In Space - July 14: New Horizons Flies By Pluto
On July 14, 2015, a spacecraft flew by Pluto for the first time! NASA's New Horizons spacecraft spent 9.5 years making the 3-billion-mile journey to Pluto. When it finally arrived, it took some amazing photos of the dwarf planet's...
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OTD In Space - July 11: Abandoned Skylab Returns To Earth
On July 11, 1979, the abandoned U.S. space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth as it burned up in the atmosphere, showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia. The last crew left the space station in 1974....
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OTD In Space - July 9: Voyager 2’s Closest Approach To Jupiter
On July 9, 1979, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops. Voyager 2 was one of two space probes launched by NASA in 1977 to study the...
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OTD In Space - July 8: Atlantis Launches On Final Mission
On July 8, 2011, the space shuttle Atlantis launched on its final mission. Atlantis was the last of NASA's space shuttles to fly into space. It went on 33 missions since 1985, ferrying astronauts to and from space stations, and even...
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OTD In Space - July 7: Discoverer 26 Launches
On July 7, 1961, the U.S. Air Force launched a satellite called Discoverer 26 into orbit with a classified payload. Discoverer 26 was part of a series of reconnaissance or spy satellites whose missions were kept top-secret by the...
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OTD In Space - July 6: Discovery Of Jupiter’s Moon Lysithea
On July 6, 1938, an American astronomer named Seth Barnes Nicholson discovered Jupiter's moon Lysithea. Nicholson spotted Lysithea from Mount Wilson Observatory in California, where he had previously discovered three more Jovian moons....
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OTD In Space - July 5: Russian Cargo Ship Arrives At Space Station
On July 5, 2015, the Russian Progress 60 cargo ship successfully docked with the International Space Station. The spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 3. It was packed with more than 3 tons of food,...
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NASA's SPHEREx Telescope Begins Mapping The Entire Sky
NASA has begun taking 3,600 unique images each day to create a new map of the cosmos with its newly-launched SPHEREx observatory. Credit: NASA
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OTD In Space - July 2: Space Probe Launches To Halley’s Comet
On July 2, 1985, the European Space Agency launched the Giotto space probe to get a close-up look at Halley's Comet. Nearly nine months later on March 14, 1986, Giotto became the first spacecraft to observe of a comet up close when it...
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How Wild Horses Are Preventing Wildfires In Spain
Wild horses have become an unlikely new defence against fires in the Iberian highlands.
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OTD In Space - June 30: Explosion From Space Levels Miles Of Forest
On June 30, 1908, a giant fireball exploded over the forests of Tunguska in Siberia. The impact leveled hundreds of miles of forest, and the exact cause is a bit of a mystery. At the time of the explosion, it was too difficult to reach...
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OTD In Space - July 1: Kennedy Space Center Established
Happy Birthday, Kennedy Space Center! On July 1, 1962, NASA established the Launch Operations Center — which was later renamed the Kennedy Space Center — on the east coast of Florida. After President John F. Kennedy famously said that...
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ESA’s Biomass ‘Umbrella’ Unfurls In View From Space
ESA's Biomass spacecraft recently unfurled its antenna reflector. Watch footage from space and animation of the deployment. Credit: Space.com | footage & animation: ESA/ATG medialab | edited by Steve Spaleta
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OTD In Space - June 18: America’s First Woman In Space
On June 18, 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride became America's first woman in space after she and four colleagues blasted off on the space shuttle Challenger for the STS-7 mission. The astronauts spent 6 days in space deployed two...
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OTD In Space - June 17: First Arab And Muslim In Space
On June 17, 1985, the Space Shuttle Discovery launched on NASA's STS-51-G mission, carrying payload specialist Sultan Salman Abdulaziz Al Saud, a Royal Saudi Air Force pilot who became the first Arab and first Muslim in space. And...