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For a century, Edvard Munch paintings have hung in a Norwegian chocolate factory cafeteria, watching over workers during lunch breaks. Now these rarely seen artworks are heading to a museum for the first time, complete with 100 years of nicotine stains and cocoa powder.
Scientists discovered one of Earth's earliest vegetarian land animals, a 10-inch creature that munched on ferns 307 million years ago. The find rewrites the timeline of when animals first started eating plants.
Scientists discovered a football-sized creature from 307 million years ago that was one of the first land animals to munch on plants instead of meat. The finding rewrites what we thought we knew about how early animals adapted to life on land.
A pet company in Florida just set a world record by throwing the ultimate pool party for 276 dogs. The pups splashed in pools, munched treats, and made history with their humans by their side.
Endangered African wild dogs, long thought to eat only meat, have surprised scientists by munching on jackalberries in Botswana's Okavango Delta. This unexpected adaptability could help the species survive in a changing world.
Scientists discovered a football-sized ancient animal that munched plants 307 million years ago, pushing back the timeline of vegetarian eating by millions of years. The fossil skull from Nova Scotia reveals nature's earliest veggie experiments happened way sooner than we thought.
A kindergartner's dream came true, and now Jessica Fujii studies how California's 3,000 sea otters are keeping coastal ecosystems healthy enough to withstand climate change. By munching through a quarter of their body weight daily in sea urchins and crabs, these furry predators are preserving kelp forests that protect shorelines from warming oceans and stronger storms.
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Two New Jersey artists spent 60 days transforming dog food into stunning recreations of masterpieces like the Mona Lisa and Girl With a Pearl Earring. The whimsical exhibition at NYC's Museum of the Dog proves art can celebrate our love for four-legged friends in the most creative ways.
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A major exhibition in Vancouver celebrates Emily Carr, the groundbreaking artist whose swirling forest paintings transformed how people experience British Columbia's landscapes. Her immersive style makes viewers feel like they're standing right inside the rainforest.
High schoolers at Punahou School are teaching elementary students how to launch businesses that make money and make a difference. Through Innovation Sprints, kids as young as second grade are learning to build brands around causes they care about.
A mom shopping alone at Target stepped on a piece of Pirate's Booty and burst into tears, inspiring an ad concept that's making thousands of people emotional. Her vision of motherhood's fleeting moments has the internet begging the brand to make it real.
A local villager's pond-side discovery in Thailand has revealed a new species of gentle giant that may be Southeast Asia's largest dinosaur ever found. The 30-ton sauropod helps scientists understand how supersized dinosaurs evolved across the ancient world.
Scientists in Thailand have identified a massive new dinosaur species that weighed as much as nine elephants and stretched nearly 90 feet long. The discovery gives us our best look yet at the giants that roamed Southeast Asia over 100 million years ago.
The world's oldest known tortoise didn't die after all. Jonathan, the 193-year-old giant tortoise living on St. Helena island, is alive and well after a social media hoax fooled major news outlets.
A Swiss research team has uncovered only the second complete juvenile Camarasaurus skull ever found, perfectly preserved for 150 million years. The rare discovery offers scientists an unprecedented window into how these gentle giants grew and thrived during the Jurassic period.
A hitchhiking frog traveled across Australia sealed inside a supermarket lettuce bag and survived the journey. The couple who found him gave him lunch and released him into a local dam.
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory kept a 60-year-old tradition alive before the historic Artemis II moon mission launched in April 2026. A simple container of peanuts connected decades of space exploration through one delicious superstition.
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Australian authorities just completed their largest-ever exotic invertebrate bust, seizing over 100,000 illegal cockroaches from a single breeder. The massive operation protects the island nation's unique ecosystem and hundreds of native cockroach species that play vital roles in their habitats.
After vanishing from Wellington's hills for over a century, kiwi birds are coming home. A grassroots movement has now returned 250 of these iconic birds to their natural habitat, with volunteers leading the charge to restore what was lost.
A Florida zoo captured the heartwarming moment when Teddy the sloth met his newborn son for the first time. At 37 and 47 years old, Grizzly and Teddy are among the oldest sloths ever to have a baby.
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