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i would say, trees humble human being.

(source: bbc)

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ancient biodiversity.

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life-saving.

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octopus always has a way stealing the show. this time is "sharktopus"

(source: New York Times) An octopus was riding the shark. Marine ecologists who spotted it nicknamed it the “sharktopus” and said it was one of the strangest things they had ever seen in the ocean.

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ding-dong! finally one good human intervention in the aquatic world.

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(source: bbc news) 300 year young and beauty. check this report to greet more amazing European Trees of the Year.

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‘Ready, Steady, Slow’: Championship Snail Racing at 0.006 M.P.H. - Earlier this month, the rural village of Congham, England, played host to a less likely group of athletes: dozens of garden snails. They had gathered to compete in the World Snail Racing Championships. (source: new york times)

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check the news clip, beautiful humpback whales in the Drake Passage. (source: bbc news | jun 2024)

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whale song. glad that whales are still letting human talking to them after so much the latter have done to nature.

(source: bbc.com | apr 2024)

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good for them.

(source: ap news | 8 feb 2024)

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(source: atlas obscura | 4 feb 2024)

the largest living organism, if we’re measuring by volume, is a tree. 

At 275 feet tall, the General Sherman Tree is as tall as three blue whales are long. It’s just thirty feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty. It weighs over 2,000 tons, the same weight as 400 elephants. Its base measures 36 feet in diameter.

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(source: AP | 1 feb 2024)

The return of sea otters and their voracious appetites has helped rescue a section of California marshland, a new study shows.

Sea otters eat constantly and one of their favorite snacks is the striped shore crab. These crabs dig burrows and also nibble away roots of the marsh grass pickleweed that holds dirt in place.

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love her ritual and passion. respect.

(source: bbc news | 16 jan 2024)

Rosemary Parslow crawls on her hands and knees across the frozen ground under a wintry sky.

Most other visitors to the Isles of Scilly are holed up with family and friends.

But this natural history lover has other things on her mind: discovering a tiny endangered fern that 'blooms' in the middle of winter.

It's become something of a seasonal tradition for Rosemary, to the bewilderment of her three children.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/24/white-rhino-embryo-surrogacy/

(source: washington post | jan 2024)

scientists say opens the way to saving the endangered northern white rhino. Only two females exist in the world, Najin and daughter Fatu, and both are unable to carry pregnancies. Najin and Fatu live at Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy, which was also home to Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, which died in 2018.

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(source: atlas obscura | 16 jan 2024)

Female octopuses, rolled into balls in a defensive position to protect their eggs, were clustered together on the rocky terrain, gently swaying back and forth. They were gathered around the warm waters of a hydrothermal spring.

Seeing hatchlings emerge from eggs in 2023 convinced scientists the deep sea octopus nursery was active and thriving. (check the clip in this story).

four new species of octopus were discovered from this expedition in Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast.

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love is in the air. love between human and animals (pets).

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fire ants alert. watch this clip.

(source: the guardian | 16 jan 2024)