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The Salamander That Never Grows Up
The axolotl spends its whole life looking like a smiling tadpole with frilly gills. It can regrow lost legs, parts of its heart and even its spinal cord. In the wild, it has almost vanished.
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Nature · The Deep Dive
The Salamander That Never Grows Up
The axolotl spends its whole life looking like a smiling tadpole with frilly gills. It can regrow lost legs, parts of its heart and even its spinal cord. In the wild, it has almost vanished.
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The Hijacker Who Jumped Into the Rain
In 1971 a quiet man in a business suit hijacked a passenger jet, collected $200,000, and stepped out of the back of the plane into a storm at night. Nobody has seen him since.
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