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The Most Complete Sea Monster Skull Ever Found
A fossil hunter named Phil Jacobs was walking along the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England when he spotted what appeared to be a strange piece of snout poking out of the beach. He filmed it, shared it with renowned fossil collector Steve Etches, and what followed was one of the
The Monarch Butterfly Population Just Jumped 64 Percent
Every winter, millions of monarch butterflies make one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world, traveling up to 2,800 miles from Canada and the United States to cluster on oyamel fir trees in the mountains of central Mexico, their wings blanketing the forest in a sight unlike anything
She Beat Cancer And Then Adopted A Hawk
When the first Covid lockdown arrived, most people tried baking sourdough or following along with an exercise video. Candida Meyrick did something rather more unusual: she adopted a Harris Hawk fledgling, and the decision changed her life in ways she is still discovering. Candida, who had come through breast cancer
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The Teddy Bear Doctor Who Has Been Saving Beloved Toys
There is a home where the walls are lined with button eyes, spare fur and tiny stuffed animal parts, and where a seamstress named Ruth Hasman has been quietly repairing beloved childhood toys for nearly two decades. She calls her operation the Bearland Teddy and Stuffy Hospital, and the patients
United Airlines Reaches A Historic Payout Deal
Since 2020, more than 30,000 United Airlines flight attendants have been working without a pay raise, some of them picketing airports, voting down earlier deals and returning to the negotiating table to push for something that felt fair after years of sacrifice during the pandemic and the airline’s recovery. That
American Cigarette Smoking Just Hit A Record Low
For the first time in recorded history, fewer than 10 percent of American adults smoke cigarettes. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 9.9 percent of adults smoked in 2024, crossing a threshold that public health researchers describe as genuinely significant. In their field,
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American Cigarette Smoking Just Hit A Record Low
For the first time in recorded history, fewer than 10 percent of American adults smoke cigarettes. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 9.9 percent of adults smoked in 2024, crossing a threshold that public health researchers describe as genuinely significant. In their field,
Boy Learns Something Unsettling About Peanut Butter So He Built His Own Brand
Franco Leonardi was 18 and still finishing high school in Argentina when a family contact in the peanut industry told him something he could not stop thinking about. A significant portion of commercial peanut butter, the contact explained, is made using peanuts that cannot be sold in whole form: older
Vivid Dreams Actually Make You Sleep More Deeply
For decades, the scientific understanding of deep sleep rested on a simple idea: the more quiet and inactive the brain, the more restorative the rest. Dreaming was considered a sign of partial wakefulness, a kind of interruption in the deeper stages of sleep rather than a feature of them. A