What Has 8 Arms, 9 Brains, 3 Hearts, And 2,240 Suckers? Goji, The Giant Pacific Octopus, Of Course!

Our newest unofficial video series—deep-sea animals that are cuter than your puppy. 🐶

Amphipods are often mistaken for tiny shrimp. They resemble shrimp in some ways, but are laterally compressed and have no carapace. They’re important food for many fishes, invertebrates, seabirds, and even marine mammals. Amphipods are mostly detritivores (eating decomposing plant and animal parts, as well as feces) and scavengers. ⁠ ⁠ Amphipods in the genus Scina, like the cutie in this video clip, can emit their own light (bioluminescence). Researchers have recorded this light and found that it is among the shortest wavelengths of light produced by any known organism!⁠

More of Lewis Hine's groundbreaking photos of child labor in the early 20th century.

These 11-year-old “pin boys” worked until midnight many days of the week resetting the pins at a Massachusetts bowling alley:

And here’s ten-year-old Charlie Foster, who could not read or write, getting ready to work in an Alabama cotton mill:

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How Photography Helped to End Child Labor in America

The haunting photographs of Lewis Hine

Reindeer herding in the Kola Peninsula, Céline Clanet.

Harbor of Trieste, 1907, Egon Schiele

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LaNada War Jack on the February 1970 cover of Ramparts magazine

Clearest Image ever taken of Mars’ North Pole. Yes that’s water ice.

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Credit: Katherine Miller

The Space Shuttle Atlantis seen in silhouette during solar transit, May 12, 2009.

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