Deeply strange black swallower fish and other odd animals

The black swallower ( Chiasmodon niger ), capable of eating 10 times its weight, is only one of the curious animals introduced to visitors at the American Museum of Natural History’s new Life At The Limits exhibition. Read the rest

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Deeply strange black swallower fish and other odd animals

Sandwars: the mafias whose illegal sand mines make whole islands vanish

Singapore’s insatiable appetite for sand to use to expand its island’s territory has led to a worldwide boom in illegal sand-mining, run by criminal gangs who are responsible for the destruction of entire islands in the Pacific rim. Read the rest

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