In the spring of 2005, common toads in Germany and Denmark began dying in a violent and highly unusual way. Witnesses observed the animals swelling, twitching, and then rupturing, scattering organs ...

In April 2005, experts were bamboozled by an outbreak of exploding toads in the Altona district of Hamburg. Across a handful of nights, hundreds of amphibians swelled up to three times their size and ...

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The canned cannabis drink aisle is exploding. Here are the CBD- and THC-infused drinks I recommend, and one I don't.

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I love pixel art. I find that, even decades later, the best-looking games of the ‘90s – Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past – can still be breathtaking in a way ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Moon jellies, which are found in shallow bays around the world, look like small, not entirely friendly ghosts. They have ...