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Earth has a dizzying diversity of insects, with beetles alone making up 25 percent of all named animal species. The new ...

While diving in the waters of Fiordland, off the coast of New Zealand’s South Island, researchers were amazed to discover an enormous black coral. The coral is thought to be among the largest ever ...

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Hulk often struggles to find enemies powerful enough to fight, but when he does, they are often the most important in comics.

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...