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Jellyfish Lake in Koror, Palau
Located on an uninhabited rock island off the coast of Koror in Palau, Jellyfish Lake is one of 70 saltwater lakes on this South Pacific archipelago that were once connected to the ocean, but are now...
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Lake Labynkyr in Russia
Anything can happen in a fantasy monster match-up, but it’s probably safe to say that whatever lives under this deep, frigid Siberian lake could make mincemeat out of Nessie.Rumors around the Devil of...
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Digital Orca in Vancouver, Canada
Like something out of the movie Pixels, Douglas Coupland's public art masterpiece, Digital Orca looks like it is leaping right out of a video game. Or maybe a giant Lego set.Coupland is better known...
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The Great White Cafe in Pacific Ocean
One great white shark is terrifying enough, but when a large group of the otherwise solitary hunters all go to meet at a seemingly random spot in the middle of the ocean, for reasons that are a near...
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Skrímslasetrið in Iceland
Tale of monstrous sea beasts have been blowing in from the cold seas off the shores of Iceland for centuries and a small fjord town that still reports regular sightings has established a museum to the...
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Farewell Spit in Puponga, New Zealand
Splaying off from the northern tip of New Zealand's southern island, the skinny little beach known as Farewell Spit is a lovely and remote piece of nature that seems to call to whales who are looking...
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An Abandoned, Saddled Horse Was Found in a British Forest
Hello, horse. (Photo: photophilde/CC BY-SA 2.0)Like something out of a gothic ghost story, a lone horse, dressed up in full riding gear was mysteriously found Thursday with no rider in a forest near...
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The Retro-Futuristic Undersea Habitats of Jacques Rougerie
The original Aquascope. (Unless otherwise noted, all images are property of the Jacques Rougerie Foundation/Used With Permission)If spy movies and comic books are to be believed, the world's oceans are...
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The Perplexing Problem of Manitoba's Nameless Lakes
Manitoba's Dorothy Lake, one of the 10% of the province's lakes that do have an official name. (Photo: Robert Nunnally/CC BY 2.0)Canada has a heck of a lot of lakes. Back in the last Ice Age, the...
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Inside the Creation of Europe's First Underwater Museum
"The Raft of Lampedusa," currently installed at the Museo Atlántico. (All sculptures and photos: Courtesy of Jason deCaires Taylor.)Off the coast of the Spanish island of Lanzarote, the easternmost of...
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The Mystery of the 'Beast of Dartmoor' Has (Apparently) Been Solved
(Photo: Greg Hume/CC BY-SA 3.0)For years, blurry photographs and reported sightings of a big cat in Dartmoor, a massive southwestern English park, have emerged. There were also the dead animals that...
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Take a Soothing Swim in a Lake Swarming With Golden Jellyfish
There is something magical about floating alongside thousands of translucent, soft-bodied jellyfish. If you adventure to Jellyfish Lake, a marine lake secluded in a pocket of Eil Malk Island in Palau,...
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Raccoons Are Eating Pets and Terrorizing a Harlem Block
(Photo: Darkone/CC BY-SA 2.5)Raccoons, at their best, are harmless and even cute, but they can also be menacing, attacking other small animals and the odd human. They can be even scarier in packs, as a...
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An Exclusive Look at the Leaked PR Agenda of the 1936 Republican National...
Bruce Barton's letter to himself ahead of the last time Cleveland held the RNC, 1936. (Photo: Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, Bruce Barton Papers)“Wire each state chairman to bring the prettiest...
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The CIA's Declassified Guide to What Women Want
(Photo: Public domain)A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.After coming across what appeared to be an actual in-house CIA poster depicting lady agents as hard-boiled, gun-toting,...
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The California Town That Produced 10 Million Eggs a Year
Egg gatherers at Armstrong’s Spring Hill Poultry Farm, 1897. (Photo: © Petaluma Historical Library & Museum)Is Petaluma, California, the world’s most divided city?On the one hand it is renowned as...
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Find The Police Robots Near You With This Handy Map
A member of the US Capitol Police maneuvers a bomb disposal robot through Washington D.C. (Photo: Jay Tamboli/CC BY 2.0) Earlier this month, a robot normally used to defuse bombs made a strange kind of...
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The Joy of Pronking
Eadweard Muybridge's study of a deer in motion. (Photo: Wellcome Trust V0048764/CC BY 4.0)The other day, I was driving along a road in upstate New York when I saw a deer. This isn’t an unusual sight in...
View ArticleA Stranger (Apparently) Left a Crocodile in This Teen's Bathroom
HOLY SHIT! THERE'S A SNAPPER IN MY CRAPPER! https://t.co/tCEOhC8EaY— The NT News (@TheNTNews) July 25, 2016According to an amazingly-headlined story over on the NT News, a pair of roommates in the...
View ArticleBrave Tortoise Escaping Deadly Sand Fire Fled 'as Quickly as He Could'
Tortoise manages to escape raging #SandFire, found by officials fleeing as fast as he could https://t.co/CoCva0wbMLpic.twitter.com/wshYuP35Zv— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) July 24, 2016Since Friday...
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