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  The Salton Sea Disaster: How a Man-Made Lake Became a Toxic Time Bomb in California - discoverwildscience

  discoverwildscience.com - Jan Otte

  Jan Otte In the heart of California’s sun-drenched desert lies a body of water that once promised paradise but now harbors a toxic secret. The Salton …

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  Explorers Found a Hidden Chamber in a Cave Filled with Remnants of a Lost Civilization

  Popular Mechanics - Tim Newcomb

  You’ve always got to check inside the hidden chamber. Always. Explorations of a submerged passage in the Tlayococ cave in Mexico led to an undiscovered room. • Within the room, cave explorers discovered bracelets sitting atop stalagmites and other artifacts from a lost civilization. • The motif on the …

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  Living Rocks? The Bizarre Tunicates That Look Like Stones but Are Actually Animals - discoverwildscience

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  Annette Uy From a distance, they might seem like ordinary stones scattered across the ocean floor. Their rugged, unassuming appearance would deceive …

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  The Rise of Plastic-Eating Bacteria: Can Nature Solve Our Pollution Problem? - discoverwildscience

  discoverwildscience.com - Trizzy Orozco

  Trizzy Orozco In a world increasingly choked by plastic waste, a glimmer of hope emerges from an unexpected corner of nature: plastic-eating bacteria. …

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  The Science of Sky Islands: Could Floating Landmasses Like in Video Games Ever Exist? - discoverwildscience

  discoverwildscience.com - Trizzy Orozco

  Trizzy Orozco In the realm of video games and fantasy literature, the concept of floating landmasses, or “sky islands,” captures the imagination. …

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  This Bizarre Fossil Isn’t a Plant, Animal, or Fungus—Turns Out It’s a Whole New Form of Life

  Popular Mechanics - Elizabeth Rayne

  This strange organism is in a class all its own. Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was unearthed. • Analysis of one Prototaxites species showed that its physical and chemical characteristics were not only different from …