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These Are The Rarest Ford Vehicles You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

These Are The Rarest Ford Vehicles You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Ford is a brand that’s steeped in automotive history. Since 1903, the Blue Oval has given us iconic vehicles like the Model A, the Mustang, the GT40, and the Torino. A company with a history spanning 122 years is bound to have come up with some special vehicles. We are talking about the rarest of …

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The race to save the world’s rarest orchid

The race to save the world’s rarest orchid

Captive orchids Dixon and his team already managed to grow a living, captive collection of Rhizanthella orchids with their fungi and bushes once, in the 1990s. That collection died around 2000 due human error, in the form of an unclear watering rota that left the plants dried out after one Christmas holiday, he says.  While frustrating, this did not seem …

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Nobody Has Ever Seen Alive The Rarest Whale On Earth

Nobody Has Ever Seen Alive The Rarest Whale On Earth

The rarest whale in the world is the spade-toothed whale (Mesoplodon traversii), with only seven confirmed specimens to date since first reported in the 1800s, and nobody’s ever seen one alive. All but one of them have been reported in the seas around New Zealand. Last December saw the first-ever dissection of one after it washed ashore on New Zealand’s …

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Life is one of the rarest things in the Universe

Life is one of the rarest things in the Universe

There’s a meme that’s been floating around on social media recently, offering encouragement to turn our everyday perspective upside down. “In the entire Universe, wood is rarer and more valuable than diamonds.” Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn While diamonds are surprisingly common in the Universe – being made from (very abundant) carbon crystallised in the high pressures of asteroid collisions and gas …

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“World’s Rarest Elephant”: Meet Motty, The Only Known Elephant Hybrid

“World’s Rarest Elephant”: Meet Motty, The Only Known Elephant Hybrid

Motty remains the only confirmed hybrid between an African elephant (Loxodonta africana) and an Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). Although the calf tragically died just days after birth, his unique descent earned him the rare distinction of being named the “world’s rarest elephant” by Guinness World Records. Motty was born on July 11, 1978, at Chester Zoo in the UK and …

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Lost letter leads to discovery of one of Earth’s rarest minerals

Lost letter leads to discovery of one of Earth’s rarest minerals

A dusty envelope misplaced in a government archive has rewritten a chapter of mineral history. That 1949 letter, discovered during a 2023 digitization project in Bavaria, pointed curators toward a shoebox of lemon‑yellow fragments that had sat unnoticed for decades.  Roland Eichhorn of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) led the modern hunt that followed, and his team …

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