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Southeast Asia has long been an epicenter for the illegal wildlife trade but now, it appears, traders are increasingly turning to social media sites like Facebook to sell their stock. Wildlife trade specialists TRAFFIC released a report, “Trading Places“,  this week highlighting the extent of the trend. For 23 days in July 2016, researchers spent 30 minutes a day scouring Thai Facebook for posts selling and distributing live animals. Within that time, they reported 756 posts that, combined, showed a total of 1,521 animals from 200 different species for sale. What’s more,…

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Scientists have worked out the maximum gravity humans could survive on another world, if we were to spread out into the universe. Publishing their findings on the pre-print server arXiv, three scientists from the University of Zagreb in Croatia studied super-Earths in particular. And they found that our bodies could cope with about 4.5 times Earth’s gravity. To come to this conclusion, the team had a rather unusual method, using Game of Thrones star and strongman Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson as a case study. They worked out what gravity “The Mountain”…

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Millions of years ago, massive toothy reptiles swam the seas devouring any unfortunate ocean dwellers that got in their way. Now, a newly analyzed fossil suggests that these animals – called mosasaurs – may have battered their prey with their snouts, just like orcas do today.  This idea has been proposed by University of Cincinnati biologist Takuya Konishi, lead author of a recent study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology that reanalyzed a fossil first discovered back in 1991 in western Kansas. The bones were originally thought to belong to a…

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A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars has spotted the Opportunity rover on the surface of the Red Planet, as the anxious wait over the rover’s well-being continues. Opportunity has not been heard from since June 10, when a global dust storm engulfed Mars. In late August the storm began to clear, with hopes the rover would wake up from a sleep mode intended to ride out the storm. Almost 100 days later, it hasn’t. Now an image snapped by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), using its HiRISE camera, shows the location…

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Sure, there’s no sense crying over spilled milk, but a literal ton of garbage spilled on the freeway? That’s something to get upset over. 1 Garbage truck dumped entire load on a highway on-ramp during rush hour Pin It Via did_you_pig_it 2 Pin It Via basshead541 3 Pin It Via basshead541 4 Pin It Via somedisease 5 Pin It Via lastyea 6 Pin It Via tangentdivision 7 A Friend thought it would be a good idea to put his duvet over his dogs kennel. We walked in to this. Pin…

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