Read more about the article Brave Little Fish Risk Their Lives By Rubbing Against Great White Sharks To Exfoliate, Study Says
School of Pacific jack mackerel chaffing against a white shark at Guadalupe Island, Mexico. (Jesus Erick Higuera Rivas/Newsflash )

Brave Little Fish Risk Their Lives By Rubbing Against Great White Sharks To Exfoliate, Study Says

These small fish rub against great white sharks and a new study argues that it could be so they can exfoliate their skin and remove parasites. A team of researchers…

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Read more about the article Museum Dusts Off 150 Year Old Storage Boxes And Discovers 33 New Species Of Prehistoric Snails
Pieces of the pigeon snail Mitrella viennensis, named after Vienna, with a historical label and an outdated name. (NHM Vienna, Alice Schumacher/Newsflash)

Museum Dusts Off 150 Year Old Storage Boxes And Discovers 33 New Species Of Prehistoric Snails

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Vienna’s Natural History Museum has discovered 33 new species of snails that lived millions of years ago after unboxing them from their 150-year storage. The Museum of Natural History in…

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Read more about the article Photographer Aims To Give Voice To Small Sea Creatures As Habitats Vanish
A photo by Toni Bertran, 45, showing a couple of underwater horses in Calahonda, Andalucia, Spain.

Photographer Aims To Give Voice To Small Sea Creatures As Habitats Vanish

These remarkable images getting up close and personal with some of the more colourful and fascinating sea creatures are a photographer's attempts to remind us to do more to protect…

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Read more about the article Over 80 Exotic Animals Rescued From Squalid Conditions In An Illegal South American Hatchery
Police rescued eighty animals that were in overcrowded conditions in an illegal hatchery in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Over 80 Exotic Animals Rescued From Squalid Conditions In An Illegal South American Hatchery

This is the moment Argentinian cops rescue 80 exotic birds and two tortoises from a makeshift hatchery located in the middle of a city where they were kept in squalid…

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Read more about the article Signs In Sleepy Austrian Town Of St Corona Am Wechsel Stolen By Pandemic Pranksters
A sign showing the St. Corona am Wechsel municipality, in the Neunkirchen district of Lower Austria

Signs In Sleepy Austrian Town Of St Corona Am Wechsel Stolen By Pandemic Pranksters

Pandemic pranksters have stolen the signs leading in and out of the small Austrian town of St. Corona am Wechsel. St. Corona am Wechsel, consisting of only 392 inhabitants, is…

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