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Matt Simon
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Matt Simon was a senior staff writer covering biology, robotics, and the environment. He’s the author, most recently, of
A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
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Absurd Creature of the Week: This Beetle Fires Boiling Chemicals Out of Its Bum
May 16, 2014 6:30 AM
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Fantastically Wrong: The Disturbing Reality That Spawned the Mythical Jackalope
May 14, 2014 6:30 AM
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Absurd Creature of the Week: This Oceanic 'Nightmare' Suffocates Foes With Clouds of Slime
May 9, 2014 6:30 AM
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Fantastically Wrong: The Theory of the Wandering Wombs That Drove Women to Madness
May 7, 2014 6:30 AM
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Absurd Creature of the Week: This Marsupial Has Marathon Sex Until It Goes Blind and Drops Dead
May 2, 2014 6:30 AM
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Fantastically Wrong: When People Thought Lambs Grew Right Out of the Ground
Apr 30, 2014 6:30 AM
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The Real-Life Pokémon That Can Regenerate Missing Limbs
Apr 25, 2014 6:30 AM
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Absurd Creature of the Week: World's Most Badass Ant Skydives, Uses Own Head as a Shield
Apr 18, 2014 6:30 AM
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Scientists Discover Bugs With Sex-Reversed Genitalia Doing It for 70 Hours
Apr 17, 2014 12:30 PM
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How Flesh-Eating
Strep
Bacteria Evolved Into an Epidemic
Apr 14, 2014 3:15 PM
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Absurd Creature of the Week: Cross-Dressing Cuttlefish Puts on World's Most Spectacular Light Show
Apr 11, 2014 6:30 AM
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Watch How Fruit Flies Avoid Attack by Banking Like Fighter Jets
Apr 10, 2014 2:06 PM
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Absurd Creature of the Week: This Eel Fires Extra
Alien
Jaws Out of Its Throat
Apr 4, 2014 6:30 AM
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The 6-Foot Earthworm That Sounds Like a Draining Bathtub
Mar 28, 2014 6:30 AM
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The Incredible Critter That's Tough Enough to Survive in Space
Mar 21, 2014 6:30 AM
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The Murderous 10-Foot-Tall Bird With a Beak Like a Pickax
Mar 14, 2014 6:30 AM
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The 28-Foot Sea Monster That Can Survive Being Cut in Half
Mar 7, 2014 6:30 AM
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Jewel wasps manipulate cockroach brains, remove free will
Mar 3, 2014 5:30 AM
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The Wasp That Enslaves Cockroaches With a Sting to the Brain
Feb 28, 2014 9:30 AM
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Absurd Creature of the Week: This Fish Swims Up a Sea Cucumber's Butt and Eats Its Gonads
Feb 21, 2014 6:30 AM
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