15 One-of-a-Kind Farms to Visit Across America

Kentucky is home to the first commercial chia farm in the U.S. The farm grows chia seeds with little water, and shows how ...
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How a Worm Turns Snails Into Walking Disco Lights for Birds

The green-banded broodsac doesn’t just infect its host, it puppeteers it. Inside the snail’s body, it grows and pulses until the snail becomes a living lure for birds. Every flicker of light in the ...
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The Parasite That Turns Snails Into Pulsating Zombie Disco Balls

In the forests of Europe, a snail begins to glow and pulse in neon hues. It’s not alive in the way it once was, it’s possessed. Inside its body, the green-banded broodsac, a parasitic flatworm, ...
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Pink 'leech-looking' growths along water in JP and Orleans; experts say they come from apple snails

ALL RIGHT. 508 NOW AN INFESTATION OF SORTS ALONG WATERWAYS. YOU MAY HAVE SEEN PINK SNAIL LIKE CREATURES GROWING NEAR CANALS. THE JEFFERSON AND ORLEANS PARISH IS. YEAH, IT’S GOT SOME PEOPLE SCRATCHING ...
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Medieval Manuscripts Are Full of Knights Fighting Snails

The next time you’re looking through an illuminated manuscript, keep an eye out for images of medieval knights fighting off snails. Of all the villains in the world, these may not have been the first ...
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As recovery efforts at site of TN explosion move at ‘snail’s pace,’ frustrated families push for answers

BUCKSNORT, Tenn. (WSMV) - Three days after a devastating explosion at a munitions plant in Humphreys County, families of those unaccounted for are growing increasingly frustrated as the investigation ...
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Victims identified after deadly explosion at Tennessee munitions plant

MCEWEN, Tenn. (WSMV) - Officials have released the names of the victims in the deadly explosion at the site of an Accurate Energetic Systems facility in Tennessee. Officials report that the release of ...