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Gooseneck barnacles are a prized delicacy with a unique salty-sweet flavor—but over-harvested sections of these fragile crustaceans rarely regrow, potentially shrinking the population of a natural treasurehttps://on.natgeo.com/3iBkgGW 

California's Central Valley grows about 40 percent of the U.S.'s fruit, nuts, and produce, but has also used up too much groundwater. Now the state is searching for creative ways to refill its aquifershttps://on.natgeo.com/3wFtLNq 

Over the past two centuries, the cherished Hawaiian dance has moved from a sacred religious practice to a tourist attraction, along the way falling prey to cultural appropriation and near erasurehttps://on.natgeo.com/35iHqis 

The new findings strengthen the case that spinosaurids, the group containing Spinosaurus and its kin, adapted to a life in the water—the only known dinosaurs other than birds to have done sohttps://on.natgeo.com/3qDCuMh 

The Japanese sakura trees made their way to America's capital with help from a few unlikely adventurers and advocateshttps://on.natgeo.com/3LgbKcF 

'Tis the season https://on.natgeo.com/36PU3BJ 

These tricks will make your children think they have superpowers—but it’s really all about the sciencehttps://on.natgeo.com/3JHMvzP 

Scientists announce dozens of new species each year, many of them so-called "cryptic species" that appear nearly identicalhttps://on.natgeo.com/3JNiT3V 

“The energy and the power that the waves have is something from another world, it’s magic.”https://on.natgeo.com/3NyVg1x 

Ukraine and Russia together produce nearly 30 percent of the world’s traded wheat. Without them, soaring food prices and shortages could initiate a wave of instabilityhttps://on.natgeo.com/3Dc7Crj 

Kylie is a common dolphin. But she “talks” more like harbor porpoises. Here’s why scientists find her so intriguinghttps://on.natgeo.com/3qx141x 

In an interview, the musician and first-time director talks about his Oscar-nominated documentary—and how the events around the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival parallel todayhttps://on.natgeo.com/3qAebig 

A recent study found that garter snakes can discriminate their own chemical signature from that of littermates fed the same diet—a snake version of recognizing your mirror reflectionhttps://on.natgeo.com/381u5fn 

Called tepuis, these flat-topped peaks emerge from the rainforest like islands poking out of a foggy ocean—each one fostering unique lifeforms potentially found nowhere elsehttps://on.natgeo.com/3tD5K7O 

Sofonisba Anguissola's undeniable talent attracted the attention of Michelangelo and the king of Spain. Today more and more of her works are being identified, securing the legacy of this remarkable womanhttps://on.natgeo.com/3IFCEsG 

A misunderstanding about the microbe that actually causes the flu created a ripple effect that changed the future of U.S. drug development, clinical trials, and pandemic preparednesshttps://on.natgeo.com/3LcfoUR