Bee hummingbirds are exclusively found in Cuba and are so tiny that they are often mistaken for insects. Male bee hummingbirds measure an average of 57 millimeters (2.24 inches) in length and weigh about 1.6 grams (0.056 ounces), which is less than a dime; female birds are a bit larger.
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Humans have a serious problem with creating junk. All of the junk humans have created has ushered in the Anthropocene age.
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An Australian team set out to create a model of what humanity would look like if it had evolved to survive car crashes. The results are a little jarring.
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Trevor Smith's death at just 33 years old was tragic. Smith weighed over 400 pounds at his peak. He trained ferociously, and he used steroids.
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Folklore and fears aside, though, is there any hard data that demonstrates the potential for the existence of ghosts?
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The Hippopotamus, or "water horse," as the Greeks called it, is the third-largest land mammal in the world. They're kind of cute and kind of funny-looking, and they use that cuteness to hide just how murderous they can be.
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Marie Curie was a brilliant scientist who helped expand our knowledge of radioactivity. So when she died, she had to be buried in a lead casket.
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This month, a study led by Maëlle Lefeuvre, a PhD student at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, studied both the different ways elephants could use their trunk to manipulate food and how each elephant displayed a preference for individual tactics.
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What the study found — as well as what it didn't — reveals just what makes Freddie Mercury's voice so incredible to listeners of all ages.
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The Nile River turns to blood. Boils coat the bodies of the Pharaoh, his servants, and his animals. Hail shatters the landscape and destroys the crops of Egypt ... and a plague of locusts swarms over Egypt, and swallows up every last green thing.
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At the end of February, officials from the Brazilian state of Para's health, sanitation and environment department who were following a large congregation of scavenging birds stumbled upon the carcass of a humpback whale deep in the mangrove swamps of the Amazon.
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The whole to-do wasn't started by the plagues or crusades generally associated with the historical ballpark of the millennium in question. In point of fact, this age of cultural and financial stagnation was brought about by the meekest of all the Earth's forces: the humble gigantic volcano.
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Science has had rivalries like any other field, but sometimes, dueling smart people take things too far. People get hurt, careers are ended, and occasionally, the onward march of science is actually hampered by competition instead of bolstered. The following science rivalries took things too far.
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Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen: Mike Tyson vs. Floyd Mayweather. Who would win?
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Hell ants, for the uninitiated, were a species of insect during the Cretaceous period, and some of the first ant variations believed to have existed.
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Centralia was previously known for its large coal reserves. In the town's height, it reached a population of over 2,000 residents. When the census counted Centralia's residents in 2010, though, it recorded ten inhabitants in the ghost town's borough. What happened?
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The National Hurricane Center started the practice of naming hurricanes in 1950 to easily communicate which storm they were all talking about.
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Earth's surface continues to fill with rearing monoliths that keep getting taller and taller.
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At six tenths of a mile long and nearly 300 feet deep, it is the largest geological feature of its kind. It's also growing.
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And so, a weary nation turns its eyes to Joe Davis, the man attempting "to break the wheel of time" by broadcasting a coded warning into the past.
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"Blue holes" is a term that scientists use for sinkholes on the ocean floor. And later this year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, alongside the Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, will continue their collaborative exploration of these holes, by sending a "benthic lander."
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Plenty of facilities have tried to keep a great white shark alive in captivity but there are lots of reasons why you'll probably never see one at an aquarium.
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As NASA's page on space food asks, "How would you feed a crew of six astronauts on an 80-million-mile, three-year mission to Mars?"
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The tale of Noah, and the great flood, is one of the more well-known biblical stories. For historians, academics, and scholars of comparative religion, however, this tale of Noah and the flood is but one iteration of a much older, cross-cultural story that in fact has over 200 versions worldwide.
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Tornadoes, which grace this great land of ours more frequently every year than anywhere else on the planet. Here's why.
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Back in 2006, climate change did not weigh on people's minds as much as heavily as today, thanks to the fires, pandemics, floods, and hurricanes.
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On Monday, July 27, 2020, Newsweek reported that a pet cat was diagnosed with the coronavirus in the UK.
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