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Known for quite some time, but still strange oddities of the universe; the rather oddly shaped moons of Saturn, Pan and Atlas, have confused scientist for some time now. Montage of Saturn and sev...

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Amongst the majestic slopes of Mount Everest rest the most intense and powerful rainbow cloud ever witnessed at Mount Everest before. No one new just how incredible these rainbow clouds really we...

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So this little story comes as quite a shock to many, but a complete embarrassment to quite a few. Once thought to have been 3.5 billion year old fossils of bacteria in Australian rock, has no bee...

http://itsnature.org/news/oops-oldest-evidence-of-life-turns-out-to-be-iron-deposits/

New research has come out of the UK stating that a sea species of tiny hairs going back as many as five hundred million years is capable to repair damaged muscles. According to the British scient...

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Who would have thought that a dog could ever get to cost almost one million pounds? As shocking as this is, it is true as the red Tibetan Mastiff named Hong Dong was purchased for one and a half ...

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Scottish deerhounds were practically unknown until a five year old dog from this breed won the big prize at a New York Dog Show. The name of the winner is Hickory, who is a beautiful white and gr...

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NASA’s spacecraft, Messenger, was launched more than 6 years ago. Although this may not be anything new – for fifteen minutes, the spaceshuttle fired the main engine in order to enter Mercury...

http://itsnature.org/news/mission-to-mercury-nasas-in-depth-probing-begins/

Off the coasts of northwestern Russia, marine biologist Alexander Semenov has discovered varieties of beautiful species that have not been captured on film. Surprisingly, the freezing elements in...

http://itsnature.org/news/rare-images-of-life-below-the-arctic-sea/

Originating in Transylvania and introduced to Britain in the 1920s, there exists an interesting specimen of fowl called the naked neck chicken. Though it has the body of a chicken, genetic mutati...

http://itsnature.org/news/is-a-chicken-is-it-a-turkey-no-its-a-churkey/

There are cinematic moons and there are super moons. A cinematic moon is the one used frequently in film, depicting a massive, even monolithic moon hanging there on the silver screen; backdrop fo...

http://itsnature.org/news/the-super-moon-spectacle-or-spectre/

What if an individual’s contribution to conservation came with the benefit of speed cleaned laundry and sparkling dishes? Two new appliances are offering just that. Manufacturers Russell Hobbs ...

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The line between lawful medical marijuana grower and potential narcotics trafficker just got a little hazier in Montana. After an 18 month investigation of statewide marijuana trafficking, the U....

http://itsnature.org/news/medical-marijuana-a-front-to-trafficking/

A giant lobster is probably thankful for his claws after being saved from being boiled for dinner. As one of the biggest and oldest lobsters that anyone in Britain has caught, he will get to spen...

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Have you ever wondered just how bad the climate can change within a world that is constantly getting hotter? The results would be absolutely staggering. These results come from the journal known ...

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The Angolatitan adamastor, or Angolan giant, is claimed to be the largest ever dinosaur to have walked our planet. Scientists in Angola have only found the first fossil of it, but they believe th...

http://itsnature.org/news/watch-out-t-rex-the-angolatitan-giant-is-bigger-than-you/

Well it is amazing to say the least. Who would have thought that plants and bats can work together in quite an interesting relationship? A plant known as Nepenthes rafflesiana pitcher has gained ...

http://itsnature.org/news/bat-roost-in-pitcher-plan-feed-it-with-excrement/

According to the journal called Nature, fossils are being questioned in regards to its authenticity – especially those thought to be related to humans especially during the past 10 years. It is...

http://itsnature.org/news/anthropologists-apes-may-not-necessarily-be-human-ancestors/

Hefty thighbones and a sharp hip are descriptions of another new species of dinosaur that has recently been identified. The science world has nicknamed this dinosaur, “Thunder Thighs” because...

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The Annales Botanici Fennici journal published a study which states that Taraxacum lacianense and Taraxacum decastroi are the two species of dandelion that have been newly discovered in Spain. Th...

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As far as the Great White Shark is concerned, humans are not a bit tasty. It’s sea lions they prefer. North Americans may not be seeing the Great White Shark much anymore because they are endan...

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A team of U.S. researchers came up with a study which states that every 27 million years the Earth experiences a mass extinction. It means that a new mass extinction will happen in 16 million yea...

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Molecular Ecology published a study which states that due to molecular technology, researchers know the diet of bats, although these night mammals feed on the wing and in the dark. Could the diet...

http://itsnature.org/news/bat-diet-forensics-aid-conservation/

England’s Lake Windermere surprised two people who had set out on a kayaking trip last Friday. Someone took a photo with the mobile phone, a photo displaying something that looked like the myst...

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Nature is indeed capable to undergo the most amazing transformations, some of them simply unbelievable. Such amazing transformations also take place in the animal world. Recent researches have un...

http://itsnature.org/news/coastal-fish-exhibits-genetic-resistance-to-toxic-chemical/

Geology published a study according to which a dinosaur bone from 64.8 million years ago has been discovered by scientists. The femur bone belonged to Alamosaurus sanjuanensis, a 20 meter long he...

http://itsnature.org/news/did-dinosaurs-become-extinct-65-5-million-years-ago/

Most people would assert in a heartbeat that hens are stupid. This is however untrue. Quite the opposite! It seems that hens are capable of empathy and even more than that if we were to listen to...

http://itsnature.org/news/dont-call-me-a-chicken-i-have-feelings/

There is a new study (published on February 23rd in Nature) stating that the fossils belonging to an ancient creature resembling a “walking cactus” came out to light in China. This “walking...

http://itsnature.org/news/walking-cactus-fossils-found-in-southwestern-china/

PLoS ONE, the online journal, published a research on March 2nd which was discussing the problem of the zombie ants, also known as parasitized carpenter ants, which are actually more common than ...

http://itsnature.org/news/zombie-ants-manipulated-by-4-new-fungi-species/

Official extinction has been declared on the Eastern Cougar. This beautiful cat, that once roamed from the Carolinas north into Canada and west to the Great Plains, has been endangered since 1973...

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This is a great story for those who are environmentalists or simply think it’s great to use natural sources of energy. Indeed, this is a story that provides a good opportunity to show the world...

http://itsnature.org/news/icelanding-volcano-could-be-a-natural-source-of-energy/

A team of scientists from Spain, the United States, and Canada believe that they have found the fabled city of Atlantis in southern Spain’s mud flats. They were able to find the supposed city u...

http://itsnature.org/news/has-the-lost-city-of-atlantis-been-found/

A mysterious tragedy happened to two horses at the Novices’ Hurdle Race yesterday. The two horses, Fenix Two and Marching song, were killed in what seemed to be some type of electrocution. Ther...

http://itsnature.org/news/horses-electrocuted-at-the-races-in-the-uk/

A mysterious illness faces seal pups that live on the Norfolk beaches in the UK. The illness is destroying the species and baffling the scientists as the sickness leaves the pups weak, starving a...

http://itsnature.org/news/sick-seals-found-off-the-norfolk-coast/

Scientists have found ancient organisms that were trapped in salt crystals 34,000 years ago. This was reported in a study published by The Geological Society of America’s open-access journal, G...

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So we all know that fleas have the ability to jump over 100 times their own height, but we have always wondered just how this is possible. To think that a creature so small could jumps so high se...

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It’s a breakthrough indeed for the science world when claims of being able to create diesel fuel and ethanol just by using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide were made recently by Biotechnology...

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Are you someone who tends to forget what’s hidden way back in the fridge? Or are you someone who accidentally tends to buy too many groceries? If so, there is some fantastic news for you! Great...

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With the mass death of many pollinating honeybees, scientist are completely on a wire about how this will effect future food crops and the cost of food in general. This natural process, worth ove...

http://itsnature.org/news/honeybee-colony-collapses-to-save-half-the-worlds-crops/

A study was made by researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History on sharks and their legendary sensory powers. Their findings show that the sharks not only have the keen ability to detect...

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Another sighting of a UFO was spotted, this time in the skies above American Fork, Utah. The sighting took place Wednesday, January 26. Those who saw the lights described them as three red lights...

http://itsnature.org/news/more-ufos-spotted-in-the-usa-and-israel/

Mount Fuji, Japan, has had some UFO sightings. The last one to have been seen was in September of 2010. As you look at the video (see below), you can see that there are similar clouds in the skie...

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No, this is just not another bizarre idea from a Bradbury or Verne novel. It is even better than that – simply because it is true: a viable solution that could be salutary for those cities rava...

http://itsnature.org/news/new-noah%E2%80%99s-ark-for-the-world-floating-cities/

Astrobiologist Dr. Richard Hoover works with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and has been studying the tiny bacteria that is found within meteorites. Having travelled the globe while studyi...

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A new study is claiming that the Antarctic ice sheets are formed by water refreezing at the bottom rather than just by the snow that falls on top. Seeking to understand how the thawing of Antarct...

http://itsnature.org/news/climate-change-scientists-claim-antarctic-ice-sheet-built-from-the-bottom-up/

A meteorite found in Antarctica in 1995 and known as the Grave Nunataks 95229 is providing evidence that may help the theory about life on Earth coming from elsewhere in the universe. Tests condu...

http://itsnature.org/news/seeds-of-life-came-from-outer-space/

I’m sure we have all heard about dormant volcanoes and how you should not have to worry about visiting places where dormant volcanoes lie. Well this statement is definitely about to change. The...

http://itsnature.org/news/no-such-thing-as-a-dormant-volcano/

Little Estela, a baby spider monkey born on January 17, holds hope for approval by none other than her own stuffed animals. After being abandoned by her own mother after birth, she clings to life...

http://itsnature.org/news/rejected-spider-monkey-finds-hope/

Giving no other course than “climate-smart” agriculture, the UK government’s chief scientific advisor, John Beddington, claims that we do not have any other choices. Fertilizers are bad for...

http://itsnature.org/news/climate-smart-agriculture-is-needed/

So after many years of deliberation and much thought between the ages, scientists have finally stumbled upon the exact moment in time in which man started to walk upright like the people of socie...

http://itsnature.org/news/fossil-shows-man-walked-tall-3-million-years-ago/

There has been a discovery of a shipwrecked whaling vessel in the waters of Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, 600 miles north of Honolulu. Did the whale really trap Moby Dick? The name ...

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