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National Geographic grantee and Explorer-in-Residence Emeritus Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of ...

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Scientists at New York City's Rockefeller University arrived at their lab one morning and found the male Brazilian reef octopus with his arms wrapped inside a piece of PVC pipe, like he was trying to ...

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