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  1. Digit, a young sperm whale, spent three years with a fishing rope tangled at the base of her fluke. The ordeal nearly took her life, and highlights the cost of the marine pollution crisis.

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  2. Wild Roots is a fifteen-year-old primitive community in the woods. With an ever changing cast of people passing through, the members survive on what can be gleaned from their surroundings.

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  3. Meet nature's nightmare.

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  4. The Great Wall is a marvel of engineering, but the verdict is out on how well it worked at its primary function: keeping people out.

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  5. Happy ! Love history? How about geography? Get a little smarter about the world every day with the help of our new trivia bot:

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  6. In a dangerous quest to find a mate, the hourglass tree frog must navigate Costa Rica's rainy season in near-complete darkness.

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  7. Until recently, the 500 people living on the island of Kokota thought their forests were lost forever.

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  8. Your Shot photographer Carsten Bachmeyer captured this breathtaking scene of the Dolomites in the Italian Alps. Browse more of our editors' favorite photos.

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  9. Known as the Great Unconformity, a sizeable layer of earth's geological history—might have vanished because planet-wide glaciers buried the evidence.

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  10. Ease your impact on places you visit—and get more out of the experience—with this mindful travel advice.

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  11. While photographing on a remote island in Scotland, photographer Sunil Gopalan captured the moment an Atlantic puffin returned from the sea with a mouthful of fish.

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  12. These entities thrived for centuries before they disappeared—how many do you know?

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  13. Your Shot photographer Jasper Ivan Iturriaga waited for the perfect sunset to capture this image in Kenya. “We got blessed by this moment when this Topi was walking near this lonely tree. One of my favorite shots in the Masai Mara!”

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  14. The United States struggles with pregnancy-­related deaths—many of which are preventable—and Black women have a maternal mortality rate three times higher than that of white women.

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  15. Our increasing demand for security, bolstered by technology, has put us all under surveillance. Is privacy becoming just a memory?

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  16. They are the Black Mambas, the world's first all-female anti-poaching unit, and together they are saving South Africa's endangered rhinos and elephants.

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  17. A girl in Lagartera, Spain, poses in traditional dress in this 1914 autochrome. Take a look back in our archives at our most memorable portraits of women.

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  18. During their last trip to Costa Rica, Your Shot photographer Sigal Cohen managed to spot and follow some of these beautiful bats from a short distance to see how they feed on nectar.

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  19. Not only are the birds smart enough to recognize people based on their faces, they can also judge absolute and relative distances to food.

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  20. Your Shot photographer Magnus Heinmets captured this chill-inducing self-portrait while swimming among icebergs in an Icelandic lagoon. "It was one of my biggest dreams, to visit Iceland," he writes. 

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