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Only 20 to 30 'tree lobsters' remain in the wild. This single fragile population was rediscovered in 2001 after the insects were presumed extinct for 80 years.These wild Lord Howe Island stick insects (Dryococelus australis) currently cling to their precarious existence on a near-vertical volcanic outcrop called Ball's Pyramid.Now, San Diego Zoo is inviting visitors to see the extraordinary, extinction-defying Australian animals in person.Prone to catastrophic weather events and landslides, Ball's Pyramid is not exactly…

Image: HasbroHasbro’s Haslab series—a crowdfunding drop line that lets the toymaker make some truly wild toys it could never feasibly release to the mass market, should enough collectors actually want them—is meant to be a one and done thing. The campaign starts, and if it hits its goals, when it ends pretty much all that’s ever made is to fulfill the orders of who backed it. That doesn’t mean, however, that Hasbro doesn’t have some of them hiding in its vaults.Today the embattled toymaker announced to mark its 100th…

An alligator amusement park near Orlando, Florida, fittingly called Gatorland, has announced its greatest new attraction: the 'rarest alligator in the world', a solid white hatchling with piercing crystal blue eyes.The ghostly gator might look like an albino to the average tourist, but in reality, it is an even rarer form of reptile known as a leucistic alligator.Unlike albinism, which is marked by a lack of the pigment melanin, leucism is caused by defects in specific pigment-producing cells.This means that leucistic…

One of the rarest mammals in the world, a black rhino, was just born in broad daylight at a zoo in England, and the footage is breathtaking.For such a large newborn, the female calf landed on the soft, sandy floor of its enclosure with surprising aplomb.In a recent press release, zookeepers at Chester Zoo in Cheshire, England said the calf has barely left her mother's side since she entered the world on Sunday, November 12.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LVug5oFqo0 frameborder="0″ allow="accelerometer; autoplay;…

Talent agency WME has signed DJ and digital art collector Daniel Maegaard, aka Seedphrase, for “opportunities with digital art, music and fashion.” As an entrepreneur with hands in the fine art and high fashion scenes, Seedphrase is signing with WME to expand his brand’s reach. “Signing to WME is a huge opportunity to expand the Seedphrase brand through partnerships in luxury fashion, music and fine art,” said Seedphrase. “With the support of their incredible team, I hope to create deeper connections across…

Astronomers have just discovered one of the rarest stars in our galaxy. These types of stars are known as white dwarf pulsar stars, and they’re so rarely seen that only one other is known to exist in the entire Milky Way. Now, that original white pulsar, known as AR Scorpii, is joined by what astronomers have called J1912-4410. The newly discovered white pulsar is located just 773 light-years away from Earth and was recently discovered by a group of astronomers and astrophysicists working with the University…

A newly discovered star just 773 light-years away belongs to one of the rarest categories in the Milky Way.J1912-4410 is a white dwarf pulsar, a type of star so rarely seen that only one other is known in the entire galaxy. Its discovery confirms that these stars exist in a class of their own, and it gives us a new tool for interpreting not just the evolution of stars but also the strange signals detected throughout the Milky Way that defy conventional explanation.The discovery seems to confirm that the magnetic field of…

A planetary system is shaped at the boundary of order and chaos. It starts out as a molecular cloud—a big, cold clump of mostly hydrogen gas that can collapse to make stars. As central stars form, the remainder of the cloud flattens into a whirling protoplanetary disk that weaves together worlds from turbulent swirls of gas, ice and dust. From there larger-scale chaos can ensue as bigger planets push smaller ones around. The giant planets brawl among themselves, too, competing to rake up excess material and grow more…

A new discovery has boosted the chances of life soon being found on another world. NASA has announced the detection of phosphorus, the rarest element that’s essential to life, in the oceans of Saturn’s moon Enceladus.Six elements are essential for life as we know it to exist and function – carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur. Of those, phosphorus is by far the hardest to come by, so much so that scientists have suggested that its relative rarity in the cosmos could put a hard limit on how common…

Last updated: June 16th, 2023 at 11:04 UTC+02:00 Samsung has announced what might be the rarest special edition Galaxy Z Flip 4 collection. The company is collaborating with French rapper SCH to release a Galaxy Z Flip 4 special edition, and only 19 of these boxes will be released. The Galaxy Z Flip 4 SCH edition bundle includes a 256GB flip phone in the graphite color. The phone itself doesn’t have any logos or design details that separate it from the standard graphite Z Flip 4. However, the box does contain an…