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In Southern California, five rival supercolonies of Argentine ants are engaged in a war; researchers reported 15 million worker ants’ deaths in a single war
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In Australia’s Cape York, conservationists installed 29 artificial tree hollows to help endangered palm cockatoos breed; a pair occupied one within a month, and the project recorded its first fledged chick
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Scientists tracked glacier cliffs using 15,330 satellite observations and found a surprise: some retreated faster than predicted but then stabilized instead of collapsing endlessly
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A Roman stone coffin found at Westminster Abbey in 1869 bore the name of a man from 1,600 years ago, but new tests date the skeleton inside to AD 987–1052; archaeologists say it may be one of two medieval abbots
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Delaware marked its state parks’ 75th anniversary by planting its 75,000th tree, completing a five-year goal across 17 parks while a broader program aims for one million new trees by 2030
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Australia releases nearly 50 critically endangered smoky mice into a predator-free forest where the species had not been seen since the 1990s |
9 hours ago

Christmas Throwback: When Football silenced guns — and stopped a World War | Football News

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Soldiers playing football in No-Man’s Land a year after the Christmas Truce in 1914 (Photo Credit: Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images) On Christmas morning in 1914, something happened that no military plan could have predicted and no weapon could have forced. In the middle of World War I, one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history,…