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Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography described two of the new species — Iskra’s glitter worm and ...

These findings suggest that the absence of past detections does not mean discovery is imminent. If extraterrestrial ...

The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit.