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2 weeks ago

Three-metre giant oarfish, palace messenger' of doom, washes up on Tasmanian beach

Tony Cheesman, who lives in the seaside town of Penguin, was walking his two dogs, Ronan and Custard, along the beach at Preservation Bay on Friday morning when something silvery and surrounded by gulls grabbed his attention. When I got to it, I saw this massive fish, then I noticed the beautiful colours, and it had these long fans coming out of its chin and the top of its head, he said. I'd never seen anything like it.
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fromNature
3 months ago

Daily briefing: There are two kinds of beer drinkers - these are the flavours that divide them

A hydrothermal-vent worm produces toxic orpiment; beer drinkers split into strong-versus-mellow flavour cohorts; Bluesky posts about research get higher engagement than X.
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