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Earth & Life
Earth observation, climate, geology, oceans, ecosystems and the living world.
Woolly mammoths vanished suddenly from remote island despite thriving population
Spiders consume as much prey annually as humanity eats meat and fish
Elephant trunks pack 90,000 muscles into boneless precision tools
Amazon River moves more water than all other rivers combined
Ocean heat hit a record for the ninth year in a row, the longest streak ever
Earth home to 10 quintillion insects, roughly 1.2 billion per person
Peregrine falcon's 240 mph dive makes it faster than any land animal
Vietnam's giant cave creates its own weather and holds an entire jungle inside
Sea sponge cells torn apart reassemble into functioning sponge within hours
Rocks in remote Quebec are Earth's oldest intact fragment from its first 500 million years
