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This Tiny Fanged Fish Injects Predators With Opioid-Like Venom, Scientists Discover

New research reveals that fangblenny venom is meant to numb instead of harm predators.

By Savannah Cox • Apr 5, 2017

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This Tiny Fanged Fish Injects Predators With Opioid-Like Venom, Scientists Discover

New research reveals that fangblenny venom is meant to numb instead of harm predators.

By Savannah Cox • April 5, 2017

Japanese Expedition Kills 333 Whales, Defying International Law

Officials disagree on whether or not this controversial practice is unfairly maligned.

By All That's Interesting • Mar 31, 2017

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Japanese Expedition Kills 333 Whales, Defying International Law

Officials disagree on whether or not this controversial practice is unfairly maligned.

By All That's Interesting • March 31, 2017

Spiders Could Theoretically Eat Every Human On Earth In Less Than A Year

Spiders could eat every single adult human on Earth and still have room for children-sized dessert.

By All That's Interesting • Mar 29, 2017

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Spiders Could Theoretically Eat Every Human On Earth In Less Than A Year

Spiders could eat every single adult human on Earth and still have room for children-sized dessert.

By All That's Interesting • March 29, 2017

Polluted Ghost Towns Created By Appalling Environmental Disasters

Step inside the eerie remnants of America's worst coal fires, toxic waste dumps, nuclear meltdowns, and more.

By All That's Interesting • Mar 1, 2017

Polluted Ghost Towns Created By Appalling Environmental Disasters

Step inside the eerie remnants of America's worst coal fires, toxic waste dumps, nuclear meltdowns, and more.

By All That's Interesting • March 1, 2017

Vaquita, The World’s Smallest Porpoise, Is On The Verge Of Extinction

Only 30 vaquita porpoises remain and there's no sure way to save them.

By Savannah Cox • Feb 28, 2017

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Vaquita, The World’s Smallest Porpoise, Is On The Verge Of Extinction

Only 30 vaquita porpoises remain and there's no sure way to save them.

By Savannah Cox • February 28, 2017

Siberia’s “Doorway To The Underworld” Is Growing And You Won’t Like Why

As the Batagaika crater grows larger, it will continue to unearth ancient forests that will have disastrous effects.

By All That's Interesting • Feb 27, 2017

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Siberia’s “Doorway To The Underworld” Is Growing And You Won’t Like Why

As the Batagaika crater grows larger, it will continue to unearth ancient forests that will have disastrous effects.

By All That's Interesting • February 27, 2017

What Your Favorite Foods Look Like Before Harvest And Processing

From bananas to coffee to chocolate, you'd never guess what some of your favorite foods look like while still plants.

By All That's Interesting • Feb 20, 2017

What Your Favorite Foods Look Like Before Harvest And Processing

From bananas to coffee to chocolate, you'd never guess what some of your favorite foods look like while still plants.

By All That's Interesting • February 20, 2017

New Discovery Shows Humans’ Earliest Ancestor Was A Tiny, Anus-Less Mouth

The fossil is about 540 million years old.

By All That's Interesting • Jan 31, 2017

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New Discovery Shows Humans’ Earliest Ancestor Was A Tiny, Anus-Less Mouth

The fossil is about 540 million years old.

By All That's Interesting • January 31, 2017

How Trees “Talk” To One Another

Trees form complex relationships with one another to survive — and may offer lessons for us on how we can do the same.

By Krissy Howard • Jan 31, 2017

How Trees “Talk” To One Another

Trees form complex relationships with one another to survive — and may offer lessons for us on how we can do the same.

By Krissy Howard • January 31, 2017

What We Loved This Week, Jan. 8 – 14

The Titanic's wreckage, surreal landscape photography, crime in Caracas, WWII's female pilots, century-old Native American masks.

By All That's Interesting • Jan 13, 2017

What We Loved This Week, Jan. 8 – 14

The Titanic's wreckage, surreal landscape photography, crime in Caracas, WWII's female pilots, century-old Native American masks.

By All That's Interesting • January 13, 2017