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Scientists have found a new type of centipede that is the deepest underground dwelling creature of its kind a species that has been found as deep as 1100 meters below the Earth's surface and was named Geophilus hadesi after Hades himself.

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There's good news for scientists who study animals that are too small to carry a GPS monitor, or that spit ID tags back out through their arms. A setup using an off-the-shelf camera can precisely capture an animal's path in three dimensions--wit

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CC BY-NC 2.0 gainesp2003 One of the most commonly heard complaints about wind turbines is that they're loud. Wind farms are usually built a far enough distance away from communities that the noise is negligible, but a new biomimetic technology ins

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a Funny thing happened when two Danish college students injected tracking tags into starfish. The tracking tags kept mysteriously winding up on the bottom of the tank. The students – Trine Bottos Olsen and Frederik Ekholm Gaardsted Christensen -- t

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Majestic and wise, the African elephant is an iconic land animal revered for its gargantuan size and regal presence. But did you know that in just the past three years, over 100,000 African elephants were poached for their ivory tusks?

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