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Poop Visible From Space Helped Scientists Find a Remote ‘Supercolony’ of Penguins – Mental Floss
Scientists just discovered 1.5 million penguins living on a chain of remote Antarctic islands, thanks to satellite images of their telltale poop.
Though we dont know exactly where the novel coronavirus originated, many scientists agree that it probably came from an animal. If thats true, it means that COVID-19 is a zoonotic disease, or zoonosisan illness caused by a pathogen that jumped from animals to humans.
The term zoonotic disease might not come up in regular conversation very often, but you surely know quite a few of them by name. Rabies, Lyme disease, AIDS, and plague are all known zoonoses, and scientists believe that Ebola virus…
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