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🐺➕🐶 This is a "wolfdog", the result of a cross between a German shepherd and a black wolf.

Scientists cannot decide whether this 18,000-year-old puppy is a dog or a wolf👇
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November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The "Doomsday Vault", officially the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, is a secure backup facility in Norway to save the world's crop diversity - in case disaster hits.

Take a virtual tour inside👇
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📷 Martyn Smith
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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📱📷🦍 These photos are proof that gorillas actually enjoy taking selfies!

More gorilla selfies 🦍 ❤️ 🤳👇
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Image credits: Virunga National Park
November 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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This 7.8” (20cm) prehistoric stone "tool" was found in the Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm, Germany. It was used 28,000 years ago.

More about the prehistoric tool👇
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📷 J. Liptak/Museum Of Prehistory Blaubeuren
November 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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In 1958, two pilots flew a Cessna for over 2 months around the desert outside Las Vegas without landing, covering 150,000 miles. They refueled by matching speed with a truck driving down a road. Their record hasn't been broken since.

What life was like up there👇
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November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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🐛 The biggest bug known to have ever lived was the Arthropleura millipede. It predates the dinosaurs and weighed up to 100 pounds (45 kilograms).

More about the biggest bug ever👇
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November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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The Akhal-Teke is probably the most beautiful horse breed in existence. Apart from their breathtaking metallic sheen (lending them their nickname "The Golden Horse"), they are also known for their speed and intelligence. There are about 6,600 on Earth.

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November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Mysterious ancient objects at Abu Ghurob in Egypt.

What they might have been used for👇
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November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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I'm no cow expert but it looks like a limo.
November 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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This alpine shelter built during WWI on Monte Cristallo in Italy at a height of 2760 meters will definitely survive the armageddon.

More images/info about the impossible shelter👇
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November 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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A snow flake under the microscope ❄️

More amazing snow flakes under the microscope👇
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November 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Why does honey never spoil? Have archaeologists tasted millennia-old honey?👇
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November 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Las Pozas, a surrealistic wonderland in the middle of the jungle... Created between 1962 and 1984, in a subtropical rainforest in Mexico, it includes over 80 acres of waterfalls and pools interlaced with towering surrealist structures 👇
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📷 girlsthatwander / thousandd / Alonso Andrade
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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This owl hatched a duckling as its own. Yes, that's indeed possible!

Explanation👇
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📷 Laurie Wolf
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Kummakivi balancing rock in Ruokolahti, Finland. It has been balancing there for many millennia.

More about Finland's incredible balancing rock👇
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📸 Paul Hanninen
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Located on Quebec's Ungava Peninsula, the 3.44 km (over 2 miles) wide Pingualuit Crater formed from a meteor impact around 1.4 million years ago, creating an almost perfectly circular hole.

More about the incredible Pingualuit Crater👇
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📷 Charles O`Dale
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Antarctica is home to the largest volcano range on earth, and it's the largest glaciovolcanic province in the world. Its volcanoes occur throughout a distance of 3106,85 miles (5000 kilometers).

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Credits: What If / NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Probably the oldest house in the world... Huts built from mammoth bones found in Ukraine (and also in Czech Republic and Southern Poland) may be the earliest structures built by humans - the earliest examples of architecture.

Read more: bit.ly/3IRc18f

📷 Nandaro/Dolní Věstonice Museum
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Researchers at Durham University took ultrasound scans of 100 pregnant women to observe fetuses' reactions to foods eaten by their mothers, and found that they respond favorably to carrot but dislike leafy greens - especially kale!

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Credit: Durham University
November 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Could this figure have caused the deaths of the 9 victims of the famous Dyatlov Pass incident Russia's Ural Mountains in 1959? This photo was discovered on a victim's camera.

Mew evidence might finally solve the mystery👇
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Photo credit: Dyatlov Foundation
November 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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A hug that has lasted 6000 years! 🫂 🤍 They are the "Lovers of Valdaro", two skeletons dating back to the Neolithic era found in an eternal embrace in a necropolis near Mantova (Italy) in 2007.

Read on👇
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📷 Gerard Van der Leun / Direzione regionale Musei Lombardia
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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How the ancients turned the rainforest into a reliable food source👇
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November 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Full story of Mozart's starling👇
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November 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Ever wondered what the most famous 'Bigfoot footage' looks like AI stabilized and enhanced? Check out this updated view of the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film - it reveals much about who it actually shows.

Watch👇
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Credit: Original footage by Patterson and Gimlin
November 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Helmcken Falls in British Columbia, Canada, ejects so much spray in the air that in winter an enormous ice cone is formed. During colder winters, it can grow to 200 foot (60 m) or taller, with some remnants still visible in June.

Read on👇
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📷 mounntaingoat
November 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM