An Asian elephant learned to peel her own bananas with her trunk — and may have figured it out after watching her caretaker do it for her

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Al elephant holding a banana in their trunk.
An elephant at the Berlin Zoo really likes peeling her bananas.

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10 ways Tasers and stun guns can damage your body and brain, from twisted testicles to temporary memory loss

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A frontal view of a police office firing a Taser.
Stun guns induce neuromuscular incapacitation, making it difficult to make any voluntary movement.

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Here's what Niagara Falls looked like when it was turned off for the first time in 12,000 years

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Niagara Falls dried up in 1969. A boat is seen in the water in the distance.
Niagara Falls dried up in 1969.

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Thousands of blue, jellyfish-looking blobs are washing up on California shores

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Closeup on Velella Velella sitting on sand after washing up on shore.

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'You could feel the stress and terror': Inside Fukushima's abandoned hospitals, where the wounded rushed to evacuate after the nearby nuclear plant melted down

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Personal items and equipment left behind in an abandoned hospital in Fukushima.
The rush to evacuate is clear in this scene of unmade beds and leftover personal items.

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Tigers have personality traits similar to human extroverts and introverts, researchers say

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Researchers identified two distinct personality groups among Siberian Tigers –
Researchers identified two distinct personality groups among Siberian tigers – "majesty" and "steadiness."

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Photos show how a Medieval English village with a 14th-century church and historic lighthouse is crumbling into the sea

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The end of a tarmac road shows the devastation caused by coastal erosion of the cliff face in the village of Happisburgh on November 06, 2019 in Great Yarmouth, England.
The end of a tarmac road shows the devastation caused by coastal erosion of the cliff face in the village of Happisburgh on November 6, 2019.

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Climate change adds to baseball's offensive boom as warmer air means about 50 more home runs per season, new study finds

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Aaron Judge hitting his AL-record breaking 62nd home run in 2022. Researchers say at least 500 home runs since 2010 can likely be attributed to climate change and warmer temperatures.

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Ancient humans were getting high on hallucinogenic drugs during cave rituals 3,000 years ago, study claims

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Inside the Es Càrritx cave on the island of Menorca

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A company says it added mammoth DNA to plant-based burgers and that they tasted much more 'intense' and 'meatier' than the cow version

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Tube in a lab; a reconstructions of a woolly mammoth
Paleo uses precise fermentation to produce myoglobin, a protein found in meat.

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