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Seychelles now has more giant tortoises on a single remote atoll than people in the whole country, almost 183,000, and the new count finally accounts for the animals s…

Giant tortoises on Aldabra Atoll number almost 183,000, more than all the people in Seychelles, after a new count corrected ...
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Geologists drilled through 2,860 feet of Antarctic ice shelf hoping to bring up mud and their camera found sponges living on a boulder in total darkness, and the team could not ...

Antarctic ice shelf drilling 2,860 feet down hit a boulder covered in sponges 162 miles from open water, and the team could not say what they eat.
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Gravel workers in Austria reported a heap of rusty metal that could have ended up as scrap, and its 500 Iron Age iron bars probably went down in a Danube shipwreck

Iron Age iron bars from an Austrian gravel pit, at least 500 of them, form Europe's largest trove and likely sank in a Danube shipwreck 2,100 years ago ...
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A man reported a carved stone on his land in Egypt, and archaeologists dug up the head of a Ramses II statue once about 28 feet tall and a second royal face awaiting a name

Ramses II statue head found in Egypt's Nile Delta measures 5 feet 3 inches, and officials estimate the full monument once stood about 28 feet tall.
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An archaeologist in Iceland found a battered suitcase 2 years after scientists left it on the Arctic sea ice, and its memory card held something they had never been able to confirm

Arctic sea ice data survived inside a buoy case found in Iceland 2 years later, and its 142 files caught waves driving ice floes into each other ...
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Chinese astronomers searched 33 star systems for alien signals using the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, and one narrow signal survived the early filters before ...

Alien signals from 33 star systems: one narrow tone near the red star K2-155 passed FAST telescope filters, but the clues point to interference on Earth.
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Long before tractors, a Shire horse named Sampson stood 7 feet 2.5 inches at the shoulder, and the tallest horse ever recorded still towers over today’s biggest living …

Sampson, a Shire foaled in 1846, stood 7 feet 2.5 inches at the shoulder, about 8 inches taller than Hugo, the tallest living ...
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Taipei cut its old Zhongshan Bridge into 435 pieces to make room for floodwaters, and two decades later the city still has not settled where to put it back together

Taipei cut the 1933 arch into 435 pieces for flood control in 2002-03, and a rebuilding concept report is due in January 2027 ...
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Feral goats were shot out of a tiny Seychelles island over a century ago, and on Aldabra Atoll the hunt took 25 years and ended with a goat hunters had kept alive …

Feral goats vanished from Aride Island by 1920, the region's earliest mammal eradication; on Aldabra Atoll it took 25 years ...
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Colorado’s 200-foot wildlife bridge over I-25 is being credited with a 91% drop in crashes with animals, but the state’s own study shows fences and underpasses reach…

Colorado’s Greenland wildlife overpass has a big number attached to it. The 200-foot bridge over Interstate 25, which the ...
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Bacteria brewed the sulfuric acid that freed more than half the copper in discarded circuit boards in 7 days, and the microbes themselves never had to touch the scrap

Discarded circuit boards lost 53.6% of their copper in 7 days to acid made by bacteria, and a solvent then captured 80% of ...
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In hibernation, a Yellowstone grizzly’s heart slows from 40-50 to as few as 8 beats per minute, and Alaska wood frogs get through winter frozen, without breathing or a he…

Hibernation slows a grizzly's heart to 8-19 beats a minute and a bat's to 10, says the National Park Service. Wood frogs stay ...