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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

The Defector Crewneck Sweatshirt Is Back In Stock

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Merch v3


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Sabrina Imbler

A naked mole rat queen stands inside a transparent tunnel.

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Meet Pittsburgh’s Extraordinary Naked Mole-Rat Queens

A chimpanzee beckoning with an outstretched hand.

Chimpanzee, (Pan troglodytes troglodytes)

Let Me Hold Your Hand While I Eat Bugs Out Of Your Hair

A mother killer whale and her small son (soon to be big)

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Large Adult Orca Sons Are A Terrible Burden On Their Poor Mothers

A closely packed colony of Apis dorsata giant honeybees

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Whoopsies! Fossil From The Dawn Of Life Actually Just Bees

A domestic pigeon that has been dyed pink with hair dye.

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Justice For Flamingo, Who Did Not Consent To Being Dyed Pink

An extremely fluffy gray cat called the Pallas Cat snarling at the camera

Agrunia not so happy…

World’s Crankiest Cat Found On World’s Tallest Mountain

A paleoart illustration of the pterosaur Balaenognathus maeuseri, showing a creature with a long bill that tapers to a flat end, lots of tiny verticle teeth, and a red beady eye staring out from an orange and blue face.

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Now That’s What I Call Teeth!

A Sloane's viperfish, a deep-sea fish with iridescent scales and very big teeth

This Hole Is Full Of Viperfishes

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More Scientific Images Should Go This Hard

An aggressive insect approaches a hapless honeybee on a purple flower.

It’s A Bee Brawl In The Flower Patch!

A mated pair of glass frogs sleeping on the underside of a leaf, their bodies translucent and dark hearts beating softly.

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How The Glass Frog Hides Its Blood

A Caravaggio-esque photo of a tree frog being stung inside the mouth by the two-pronged genital spines of a wasp. Ouch!

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I Messed Up

An illustration of the absolute unit of a wombat, the extinct Ramsayia, standing next to a puny modern wombat.

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This Ancient Wombat Was An Absolute Unit

BRISTOL, ENGLAND - AUGUST 02: A King Cobra is displayed to the public at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm on August 2, 2016 in Bristol, England. Noah's Ark Zoo Farm has teamed up with the Reptile Zone in Bristol to bring a fortnight of educational shows which allows members of the public to see some of the world's most deadliest reptiles close up. The annual event showcases some of the world's most notorious snakes behind a specially constructed presentation room. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Deadly Reptiles Go On Show At Children’s Zoo

Happy Snake Clitoris Day To All Who Celebrate

A photo of the grass mouse Akodon albiventer

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These Two Grass Mice Species Look Almost Identical Except For One Small Thing (Their Wieners)

Clonal raider ants sipping ant milk from pupae.

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Ants Of All Ages Enjoy Ant Milk

A lady lifts a comically small Shetland pony out of a van in Germany.

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Pumuckel The 20-Inch Pony Has Other Mini-Horses Quaking In Their Hooves

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Turtles Have Been Vocalizing All This Time. Why Did We Not Listen?

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Barry Petchesky

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Folks, We’ve Got A New Animal Friendship

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A Modest Proposal: Eat Some Of Your Children, For The Antioxidants

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Let Us Celebrate Bubulle, The Goldfish That Flunked

An illustration and CT scan of an aye-aye putting its extremely long flexible finger inside its nose.

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How Does The Aye-Aye’s Finger Go So Deep Inside Their Nose?

A photo of the Bass Pro Shops Pyramid at night

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Every Creature I Met At The Bass Pro Shops Pyramid

A photo of an enormous dead sunfish, which is a strange-looking pale fish with triangle fins, hooked to a crane with a person examining the fish