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Footage captures a pair of orcas nibbling each other's tongues in the Kvænangen fjords in northern Norway. Scientists think this rarely seen behavior could play a role in social bonding.

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A new analysis of a carved mammoth tusk first discovered four decades ago reveals it may be the world's oldest boomerang.

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