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This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

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Defector

Enter Our Raffle To Win A Visit And Home-Cooked Meal From Drew Magary

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Sabrina Imbler

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Freya The Walrus Should Still Be Alive

Two brown-lipped snails, cepea nemoralis, on the concrete.

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I Must Protect The Snails In My Backyard From Myself

A screenshot of a pink spaghetti worm glimpsed on the deep sea by a Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ROV

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Do You Dare Twirl Your Fork In The Spaghetti Worm?

ALLEN PARK, MICHIGAN - JULY 27: Dan Campbell, head coach of the Detroit Lions during the Detroit Lions Training Camp on July 27, 2022 in Allen Park, Michigan. (Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images)

Detroit Lions Training Camp

What Creature Does Dan Campbell Think Would Be Great At Football?

A straight line of rectangular holes in the seafloor, with the metal parts of a remotely operated vehicle visible at the bottom of the image.

Voyage to the Ridge 2022

Let Me Stick My Hand Inside The Mysterious Holes On The Seafloor

A mysterious jellyfish with one long tentacle

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Silence The Terrors Of The Terrestrial World With NOAA’s Deep-Sea Livestream

The new fossil fish, Qikiqtania wakei, with its famous cousin Tiktaalik below.

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Animals

New Fossil Fish Flirted With The Idea Of Legs But Kept On Swimming

The stingray Potamotrygon jabuti, collected from the Tapajós river.

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Rays Week

Where Did All These Freshwater Stingrays Come From?

A manta ray perches at a cleaning station, where tiny fish clean its skin. The Ray Week logo is also here in the bottom left corner, featuring easter egg remoras.

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The Ocean’s Hottest Club Is A Manta Ray

A deep-sea cusk eek in the family Bassozetus glimpsed in the Central Pacific Basin.

Mountains in the Deep: Exploring the Central Pacific Basin

New Assfish Photo Just Dropped

A ocellate river stingray swimming, along with a logo for Rays Week.

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Stingrays Can Do Math. But Why Would They?

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Every Animal On The Wikipedia Page For “Apparent Death,” Ranked By How Dead They Appear

The newly described Malagasy litterhopper, Valalyllum folium.

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New Leaf-Like Insect Just Dropped

A pigeon nest comprising of a single stick and egg on top of a bed.

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Why Do Pigeon Nests Look So Shitty? An Investigation

A small giant squid frozen into the shape of a cube

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What’s Inside The Squid Cube?

A tick is photographed in the laboratory of the INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) which constitutes a "tiquothèque" to study its geographical distribution, the presence of disease, the development of the Lyme disease on September 28, 2018 in Champenoux, eastern France. - The laboratory appeals to the private individuals to collect the ticks having pricked them. (Photo by JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN / AFP) (Photo by JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFP via Getty Images)

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I Respect Ticks But I Still Want Them Dead

A pumpkin toadlet jumps and does not stick the landing

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Why Is This Tiny Frog So Awful At Jumping?

a photo of the house centipede, Scutigera coleoptrata

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Their Many Tiny Legs And Love The House Centipede

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