Bufoceratias wedli, a deep-sea anglerfish (Masaki Miya et al. via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0)

Bizarre Sex Helped Anglerfish Diversify and Dominate the Deep Sea, Study Suggests

Some of these fish perform obligate parasitism, in which males attach to—and then fuse bodies with—the much-larger females

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Man Finds John Lennon's Forgotten Guitar in His Father's Attic

On this day in 2016, boxing legend Muhammad Ali died at age 74. An activist for much of his life, the legendary heavyweight champion inspired other Americans to question the war in Vietnam and to agitate for civil rights.

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Blue Glacial Ice and Icebergs, South Sawyer Glacier

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