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Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.

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Massive creatures lie within the depths, but which one is the largest of them all?

Known as Dalhousiella yabukii, the worm resides inside a glass sea sponge—a simple marine animal that forms a glass-like skeleton—in the cold, dark waters off the coast of Japan. And it’s just one of ...

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A true bug trapped in amber for 100 million years has revealed a rare evolutionary trick: it had pincers. But not the folding, pocketknife-like forelegs seen in many predatory insects. The animal’s ...

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