Cracked Archive - Science
5 Species You Won't Believe Are Related
Imagine you're an animal, attending your evolutionary family reunion. You might be surprised to find out how remarkably similar it is to your last family reunion: You spend the day trying to avoid 'that guy' that no one wants to admit you're related to, while the rest of your relatives randomly eat each other. This article is for the 'that guys.'
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- By Michael Vozniak
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1039 The 8 Most Mind Blowing Disguises in Nature
Let's face it, we all hate nature to varying degrees and for our own reasons. But surely nothing inspires loathing of the animal kingdom like the fact that its creatures are constantly trying to trick us.
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- By Monte Richard, E. Reid Ross
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5 Ways to Beat Old-School Games Using Math
We wondered if there were ways to use math to completely ruin all innocent games from our childhood. Guess what? There are!
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- By Karl Smallwood
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6 New Age Cures That Aren't As Full Of Crap As You Think
It's no shock to find out that remedies involving magic and ghosts don't really make your pain go away. It would be more of a surprise to learn that they do. Well ... surprise! (Sort of.)
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- By Pauli Poisuo, Alexia Franklin
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The 5 Most Spectacular Landscapes on Earth (That Murder You)
Mother Nature is an evil bitch that wants us dead.
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- By Budd Erickson
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5 Mind-Blowing Things Found in Our Own Solar System
Space is full of mysteries, and you don't have to go far to find them. It's easy to forget that, after mankind went to the moon and found out it was just a boring, dusty ghost town.
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- By Budd Erickson
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7 Scientific Reasons You'll Turn Out Just Like Your Parents
Science has some bad news for you: The behaviors of the elderly that you write off as old-person lameness, and your behavior that the elderly credit to dickish rebellion, are all based in biology. And no, you can't stop it.
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- By Michael Record
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6 Insect Predators That Go Out of Their Way to Be Evil
You might think of insects as gross or scary, but you probably don't think of them as evil. But, upon closer inspection, we actually think they are.
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- By Jonathan Wojcik
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6 Terrifying New Creatures Science Just Discovered
While we at Cracked like to regularly terrify our readers with tales of all the frightening creatures we share the planet with, we should always keep one thing in mind: Nature is always finding ways to top itself.
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- By CRACKED Staff, Elsa Moriarty
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7 Deadly Things You Won't Believe Most People Survive
Sometimes the things that seem deadliest aren't so much deadly as they are inconvenient.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Insane Attempts to Communicate With the Future
Time travel is probably not going to happen. But that's doesn't mean we can't at least communicate with the distant future. With nothing more than a message to send and a ludicrous amount of funding, there are all sorts of projects to preserve messages for your great-great-(great-great-great...) grandchildren.
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- By R. Jason Benson
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7 Species That Got Screwed Over by Mother Nature
Evolution is the art of producing the deadliest, meanest, most efficient beasts possible. But it's not a perfect process: There's just a slew of animals rolling fatly around the reject pile, just waiting to be killed and eaten (and if you don't hurry, some of them will even do it themselves).
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- By Al and Bruce Paton
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The 5 Most Embarrassing Architectural Failures Ever
Even architects, foremen and chief engineers come in to work hungover once in a while, and that's when we get failures like these.
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- By Xavier Jackson
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6 Surprisingly Advanced Ways Animals Use Medicine
We humans think we're so smart. Sure, animals are good for a laugh or two, but if one of them gets sick, who's going to take care of it? Either it's some sympathetic human or nobody. It's not like animals have doctors and medicine. Right?
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- By Dagmar Baer
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6 Real Planets That Put Science Fiction to Shame
As space exploration advances and we start to learn what's really on the surface of those distant worlds, it becomes increasingly clear that our imagination has no chance of competing with the jaw-dropping, pants-peeing craziness outer space is capable of cooking up.
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- By Nick Dobkin
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