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Seychelles now has more giant tortoises on a single remote atoll than people in the whole country, almost 183,000, and the new count finally accounts for the …

Giant tortoises on Aldabra Atoll number almost 183,000, more than all the people in Seychelles, after a new count corrected ...
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Long before tractors, a Shire horse named Sampson stood 7 feet 2.5 inches at the shoulder, and the tallest horse ever recorded still towers over today’s bigg…

Sampson, a Shire foaled in 1846, stood 7 feet 2.5 inches at the shoulder, about 8 inches taller than Hugo, the tallest living ...
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Taipei cut its old Zhongshan Bridge into 435 pieces to make room for floodwaters, and two decades later the city still has not settled where to put it …

Taipei cut the 1933 arch into 435 pieces for flood control in 2002-03, and a rebuilding concept report is due in January 2027 ...
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An archaeologist in Iceland found a battered suitcase 2 years after scientists left it on the Arctic sea ice, and its memory card held something they had never been able to confirm

Arctic sea ice data survived inside a buoy case found in Iceland 2 years later, and its 142 files caught waves driving ice floes into each other ...
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Chinese astronomers searched 33 star systems for alien signals using the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, and one narrow signal survived the early filters before ...

Alien signals from 33 star systems: one narrow tone near the red star K2-155 passed FAST telescope filters, but the clues point to interference on Earth.
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Feral goats were shot out of a tiny Seychelles island over a century ago, and on Aldabra Atoll the hunt took 25 years and ended with a goat hunters had kept …

Feral goats vanished from Aride Island by 1920, the region's earliest mammal eradication; on Aldabra Atoll it took 25 years ...
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Bacteria brewed the sulfuric acid that freed more than half the copper in discarded circuit boards in 7 days, and the microbes themselves never had to t…

Discarded circuit boards lost 53.6% of their copper in 7 days to acid made by bacteria, and a solvent then captured 80% of ...
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Scientists in Norway moved 20 Atlantic wolffish into coastal waters stripped bare by sea urchins, and what the fish did once winter was over is the part rese…

Atlantic wolffish moved to Norway's Melkøysundet are coming back: 9 of 20 tagged in 2025 were detected again in 2026, 8 after ...
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In hibernation, a Yellowstone grizzly’s heart slows from 40-50 to as few as 8 beats per minute, and Alaska wood frogs get through winter frozen, without b…

Hibernation slows a grizzly's heart to 8-19 beats a minute and a bat's to 10, says the National Park Service. Wood frogs stay ...
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Colorado’s 200-foot wildlife bridge over I-25 is being credited with a 91% drop in crashes with animals, but the state’s own study shows fences and underpass…

Colorado’s Greenland wildlife overpass has a big number attached to it. The 200-foot bridge over Interstate 25, which the ...
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Four students in Switzerland tested sheep’s wool blankets on a glacier for a whole summer, and the first readings put the wool roughly level with the synt…

Sheep's wool covers tested on Glacier 3000 from June 22 matched a synthetic geotextile in early readings, but the melt data ...
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Italy has recorded a nearly invisible freshwater jellyfish from China at 61 sites, and the bells swimmers spot each summer are only the visible part of a life sp…

Freshwater jellyfish from China now recorded at 61 sites in Italy, including Lake Garda; harmless to swimmers, it spends much ...