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Beavers Apologise for Unannounced Overnight Roadworks
The stream was three metres wide on Monday evening; by Tuesday morning it was a pond, the footpath was underwater, and nobody had been consulted.
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Sloths Are Secretly Excellent Swimmers
Slow on the ground, sloths float thanks to gas from digesting leaves, keep their noses up like a snorkel and swim about three times faster than they walk.
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Pond Frogs Postpone Evening Chorus Citing Sore Throats
The frogs of Millbrook Pond have called off tonight's chorus, and one small tree frog has flatly refused to go along with it.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
What Is the Smallest Thing You Would Still Call a Hill?
There is no official height at which a bump becomes a hill, and philosophers have a 2,000-year-old name for why that line is so hard to draw.
Fact-based Weird Facts
Are Trees Really Plumbed Into Each Other by Fungi?
Fungi really do live on tree roots and help trees grow. Whether they link whole forests into a sharing network is far less certain than the popular story says.
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Hedgehog Completes Census of One Garden
Four nights of fieldwork, one garden, and a final count of every slug, step and gap under the fence, published in full to an audience of nobody.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
Do Plants Get Bored?
A houseplant spends its life in one pot, but it is far from idle: plants sense light, gravity and even touch, and can switch on touch-response genes within minutes.
Fact-based Weird Facts
Snow Falls in the Sahara
At the desert's edge in Algeria, snow has settled on the dunes more than once, and NASA satellites have photographed it from space.
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Badger Denies Involvement in Missing Garden Gnome
The gnome went from the rockery on Tuesday night. The badger was in the garden on Tuesday night. The badger describes this as a coincidence of a very ordinary kind.
Fact-based Weird Facts
Cows Have Best Friends
Cows build preferred relationships, groom the herd-mates who groomed them, and calves raised with a companion do better at learning.