Even worse — in some parts of Africa and Pacific islands, elephant foot yam is Amorphophallus paeonifolius — that’s right, a relative of the big stink, corpse flower!
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Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
7 Nov. 2025
The new map would thin out the number of GOP voters, turning it into something that loosely resembles, of all things, an elephant.
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Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Nov. 2025
King partnered with Black Effect in the same vein as many of the network’s biggest shows, with behemoths like The 85 South Show, All The Smoke, Drink Champs and even The Breakfast Club having been established prior to the network’s 2020 founding.
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Jessica Bennett,
VIBE.com,
5 Nov. 2025
These twisting giants are rich with star-forming material from which a new generation of stellar behemoths will be born.
Humans have had an impact on biodiversity as far back as 130,000 years ago, with the disappearance of mammoths and giant sloths—and extinction has continued in our wake as the human race spread across the globe.
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Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
In a study published in Cell, researchers set out to trace the microbial companions of mammoths across a staggering timeline, from over a million years ago to their final days on Wrangel Island just 4,000 years ago.
It has recently been determined that this family of dinosaurs was heavily feathered—a rare marking on Spike’s wrist might be further evidence of this, Christie’s says.
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Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
7 Nov. 2025
In the series, audiences will learn more about the animals that lived in the Pleistocene era, millions of years after the extinction of the dinosaurs, including the Megalonyx jeffersonii (also known as the snow sloth).
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