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A harbor seal in Germany learned to detect invisible underwater trails left by fleeing fish, proving seals use their whiskers like underwater GPS. This discovery could inspire new ocean robots and help protect seals in changing seas.
Jack Trompetter, hidden from the Nazis as a baby, spoke to nearly 900 Massachusetts students about surviving the Holocaust. His first Cape Cod school visit brought history to life for middle and high schoolers.
Jack Trompetter, hidden as a baby to survive the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, spoke to nearly 900 students at Barnstable High School in his first Cape Cod appearance. The 82-year-old Cambridge artist spent his first three years separated from his parents, moving between safe houses until liberation in 1945.
A 25-year-old nonprofit is expanding across Cape Cod to give women facing divorce, job loss, or financial crisis free access to lawyers and financial experts. WE CAN now serves three locations with help from hundreds of skilled volunteers.
Scientists spotted a record 33 critically endangered North Atlantic right whales during a single flight over Cape Cod, the most ever documented in January. With only 384 of these giants left on Earth, the sighting represents more than 8% of the entire population in one place.
A "living fossil" that survived five mass extinctions is thriving again at Cape Cod National Seashore after disappearing for 150 years. Thousands of horseshoe crabs now breed in a restored saltmarsh lagoon that was once closed off by industrialization.