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For anyone with a sense of wonder, NowScience illuminates our fascinating world, making every day more interesting.

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How many people can say they have played rugby with a Beluga whale? 🐳 🏉

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The pearlfish has a special relationship with sea cucumbers. The pearlfish will live in the sea cucumber's anus, backing into the hole tail-first so its head can stick out, avoiding predators and having easier access to food.

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Blue Whale heart

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A new project in #Germany is retraining prostitutes to become care workers for elderly people.

The state of North Rhine-Westphalia is using €1m (£0.7m; $1.2m) of local and European Union money to try to get #sex trade workers off the street and into care homes.

Heinz Oberlach, from Germany's Federal Labour Agency, said that using #prostitutes as care workers is “very logical,” as the nursing home sector is seriously understaffed and has some 6400 vacancies nationwide—despite a national unemployment rate of 12% in Germany. Reasons for the shortage include a recent clampdown on Eastern Europeans working illegally as care workers and the reluctance of Germans to take on the work.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1410850/

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Tiny turtle had 104 PIECES of plastic in its intestines when it washed up on a Florida beach and died.

The devastating discovery was reported by the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton, according to a Tuesday Facebook post.

'This turtle, which would fit in the palm of your hand, had eaten 104 pieces of plastic,' the post says.

Garbage dumped in the ocean can last centuries, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

A plastic bag can last 10 to 20 years and plastic straws as long as 200 before they degrade, reports the administration.

A six-ring plastic drink holder can linger around for 400 years and plastic water bottles 450.

The Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, a cooperative project of the City of Boca Raton, the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District, Florida Atlantic University, and Friends of Gumbo Limbo, monitors over 800 sea turtle nests each year within a five mile span of beaches.

'We rescue, rehabilitate, and release sick and injured sea turtles,' says the group on its website. 'We release more than 9,000 stranded sea turtle hatchlings each nesting season.'

The group, during what is described as 'washback' season reported that 'weak, tiny turtles are washing up along the coastline needing our help.'

The one turtle found with the deadly plastic pieces in its belly, wasn't alone, according to the group.

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#Simpsons nailed it again.

#GretaThunberg #Trump #Environment

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Demonstration Of Constant Velocity With A Moving Trampoline

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Here’s a baby turtle experiencing the ocean for the first time to brighten your Monday morning.

Have a great week everyone!

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Extremely close call with a big Shark 🦈👀

I would have filled my wetsuit if this was me.

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Wow #nature never ceases to amaze.

This caterpillar builds a little house to live in 😱

#Bagworm moth larva (Psychidae)

The larva of this bagworm moth encases itself with a beautiful spiral pyramid of twigs as it grows, starting from smaller twigs when young, and stacking larger twigs from the bottom as it grows.

Photo: Nicky Bay

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Close-up shots of spider eyes captured by Spanish macro photographer Javier Rupérez

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The corridor where presumably emperor Caligula was murdered by his praetorian guards in the Palatine hill.

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The year was 1832 — and Jonathan the tortoise was just a tiny hatchling.

The world was a very different place back then; the lightbulb had yet to be invented, and cars were still half a century away.

But Jonathan, who is a Seychelles giant tortoise, lived to see it all. At around 187 years old, he’s now the oldest-known animal in the world — and he’s living a relaxing life on the remote island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic, where he’s been since the late 1880s.

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Elon Musk says Starship will be followed by a dramatically larger rocket

Elon Musk is already dreaming of a monster 'next-generation' Starship 2.0.