Gizmodo : Environment

In our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie describes the rediscovery of a satellite lost in the 1990s and why we sometimes lose sight of our orbital property. Researchers have discovered what they claim is the world’s deepest blue hole, the Taam Ja’ Blue Hole in Mexico’s Chetumal Bay, and have yet to…

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Just in case you’d like to know: Alpaca sex is weird, biologically speaking. In a recent paper, scientists have presented evidence that male alpacas impregnate their partners by thrusting their penises all the way up inside the female’s uterus—a tactic not documented with any other mammal species to date.

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Pigcasso, the famous painting pig who took the world by storm with her jaw-dropping expressionist works, has died at eight years old, her caretaker Joanne Lefson said this week.

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Officials in protective suits work at a chicken farm where an outbreak of a highly pathogenic bird flu was confirmed in Mitoyo, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo November 5, 2020. Picture taken November 5, 2020.
Japan killed 17 million chickens amid an outbreak of bird flu. Now it's running out of space to bury them.