"The oldest thing you will ever see". This smudge of white powder is stardust from the Cold Bokkeveld meteorite. It contains microscopic pre-solar grains, formed inside stars that lived and died before our Sun and solar system were born over 4.6 billion years ago. Natural History Museum, London.
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Some centipede species exhibit a behavior known as matriphagy, in which the offspring consume their mother as their first source of food. A rather brutal start to life.
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