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How many oceans are there? By - Kiley Price - published - 7 June 23 - One, four or five? Not all experts agree on the number of oceans on our planet.

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Rivers & Oceans

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Dying stars build humongous 'cocoons' that shake the fabric of space-time - By - Briley Lewis - published - 7 June 23 - New simulations show that dying stars release enormous "cocoons" of gas that may rattle with space-time ripples called gravitational waves.

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Primordial steroids solve long-standing mystery about how the 1st complex life-forms evolved - By - Stephanie Pappas - published - 7 June 23 - Compounds from 1.6 billion years ago reveal a microbial transition that set the stage for much of today's life on Earth.

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James Webb Space Telescope discovers oldest organic molecules in the known universe, 12 billion light-years from Earth - By - Joanna Thompson - published - 7 June 23 - Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered evidence of complex organic molecules in a galaxy 12.3 billion light-years away - the furthest and oldest ever detected.

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Primates have been masturbating for at least 40 million years - By - Hannah Osborne - published - 7 June 23 - Researchers reconstructed the evolutionary origins of primate masturbation and found it was an ancestral trait that goes back to the ancestor of all moneys and apes.

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'Virgin birth' recorded in crocodile for 1st time ever - By - Hannah Osborne - published - 6 June 23 - The American crocodile had been isolated in a reptile park enclosure for 16 years when she laid a clutch of eggs.

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Alligators & Crocodiles

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Orcas rip rudder off boat and follow it all the way to port, in 1st known attack of its kind - By - Sascha Pare - published - 6 June 23 - Previous reported interactions between orcas and sailboats followed a clear pattern, with the animals losing interest and swimming away once they had broken the rudder.

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Man survives crocodile attack by prying its jaws off his head. How did he escape such a powerful bite? By - Kiley Price - published - 6 June 23 - In Australia, a man recently survived a crocodile attack. An expert explains how the man likely escaped.

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