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A parasitic crustacean called Cymothoa exigua enters a fish through the gills, causes most of its tongue to degenerate, and then attaches itself to the remaining stump, where it may serve as a mechanical replacement

Why does draining a waterlogged bog only a few metres deep release more carbon into the atmosphere than clearing an equivalent area of tropical rainforest?

The heaviest living thing on Earth is a single Utah aspen with 47,000 trunks, and after years of headlines saying deer were eating it to death, the people who fence and monitor it now say new stems are finally growing back

What happened when a low-lying European country stopped fighting its rivers with higher walls and instead deliberately flooded farmland to give the water somewhere to go?
