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Stephanie Pain

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How some plants became carnivorous predators

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By Stephanie Pain
| Big Think
Toward the end of the 19th century, lurid tales of killer plants began popping up everywhere. Terrible, tentacle-waving trees snatched and swallowed unwary travelers in far-off lands. Mad professors raised monstrous sundews and pitcher plants on raw steak until their ravenous creations turned and ate them too. The young Arthur Conan Doyle stuck closer to the science in a yarn featuring everyone’s favorite flesh-eater, the Venus flytrap.
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Marine scientists are getting to the bottom of why some big fish dive deep, deep down

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By Robin Bea , Jennifer Walter , Melissa Starling, Stephanie Pain
| Inverse
There’s only one word for it: indescribable. “It’s one of those awesome experiences you can’t put into words,” says fish ecologist Simon Thorrold. Thorrold is trying to explain how it feels to dive into the ocean and attach a tag to a whale shark — the most stupendous fish in the sea. “Every single time I do it, I get this huge adrenaline rush,” he says. “That’s partly about the science and the mad race to get the tags fixed.
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The oceans’ deep-diving predators, and restoring burnt forests

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By Stephanie Pain, Bob Holmes
| Knowable Magazine
Call of the deep By Stephanie Pain   Some of the ocean’s biggest predators dive way down into the cold, dark depths. Animals-turned-oceanographers are helping biologists find out what they do when they get there. Read more From the archives The remains of a wildfire can smolder, hidden within a single tree, and yield new life in the forest, writes Sarah Gilman in an essay accompanied by her evocative illustrations for Yes! Magazine.
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