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  1. 2 hours ago

    Bones of thousands of humans were bleached then ornately carved, and now artfully cover everything in sight at this Gothic church

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Sleepy Kangaroo Island seems more like decades away from more popular stops, but wildlife tourism is waking the island from its rural slumber

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  3. 4 hours ago

    A great photograph is a combination of light, composition, and moment—these go above and beyond

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  4. 5 hours ago

    These tiny beetles are causing big problems for pine forests across North America

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  5. 6 hours ago

    These wild spaces will put a smile on your face. Where's your happy place?

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  6. 7 hours ago

    "When we hit the ground and you feel everything settled, that was when I knew we were home again."

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  7. 8 hours ago

    The sinkhole extends down more than six stories and is so large it even exposed 60,000-year-old volcanic soil

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  8. 9 hours ago

    There have been at least three sightings of tailless whales migrating along the California coast this year

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  9. 9 hours ago

    The Parthenon had withstood centuries of abuse from outsiders when Lord Elgin removed its remaining sculptures in the early 1800s

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  10. 10 hours ago

    The Bocon toadfish sing in unique patterns of 'boops' and grunts by using the muscles surrounding its swim bladder

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  11. 11 hours ago

    The Pyrenean desman uses its long snout as a snorkel while hunting for insect prey

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  12. 13 hours ago

    Once life got its start billions of years ago, it got to work utterly transforming the way our planet's surface and atmosphere are structured

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  13. 14 hours ago

    With a silhouette effect and a colorful background, Your Shot photographer Mohammad Murad captured this moment of two Arabian Red Foxes playing

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  14. 15 hours ago

    From ruby red powder used to celebrate in India to a mustard yellow curtain in Bhutan, colors mark time and place for locals and travelers alike

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  15. 16 hours ago

    Training to go to Mars requires a substantial suspension of disbelief, but that hasn't stopped scores of people from re-creating Mars on Earth

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  16. 18 hours ago

    When giraffes fight, slamming their heads and necks against each other, the impact can be heard from a hundred meters away

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  17. 20 hours ago

    Even though cats of all sizes groom themselves the same way, not all of them get hairballs—here's why

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  18. 22 hours ago

    What are some of the characteristics commonly shared by nearly all political uprisings?

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  19. 22 hours ago

    Help us caption this photo by Photographer Geert Weggen:

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  20. 24 hours ago

    Over three trillion trees live on planet Earth, and yet we know so few of their stories

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