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The mouth of the Roe River, flowing into the Missouri.
Great Falls, Montana

Roe River

The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.
sounds

Irv Teibel's 'Environments' Is Now an App

1970s nature recordings, for the 2018 human on the go.
Cara Giaimo February 13, 2018
Blink and you'll miss it.
spiders

Found: The Fastest-Spinning Animal in the World

Flattie spiders can do the equivalent of a triple axel in the blink of an eye.
Vittoria Traverso February 12, 2018
Assembling the gigantic bagel and lox.
world's largest

What It's Like to Make the World's Largest Bagel and Lox

The 213-pounder will be evaluated for a Guinness World Record.
Paula Mejia February 9, 2018
The Birr box hedge
Offaly, Ireland

Birr Castle Box Hedge

The world's tallest box hedge is found in a delightful garden.
A CT scan of a Mariana snailfish, featuring its dinner, a small crustacean.
oceans

The World's Deepest-Living Fish Is Surprisingly Cute

Meet the Mariana snailfish, the top dog at the bottom of the world.
Cara Giaimo November 29, 2017
The Atrium where you can hear the sounds of Majesty and Divinity, Prince's doves.
Chanhassen, Minnesota

Paisley Park

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.
Pre's Rock.
Eugene, Oregon

Pre's Rock

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.
Just a bit of the BPL's 200,000-piece record collection.
libraries

Digitizing the Boston Public Library's Forgotten Record Collection

It will take years, but all 200,000 pieces of vinyl discovered in a basement will one day be available to the public.
Ashawnta Jackson October 24, 2017
Highland, Wisconsin

World's Heaviest Ball of Twine

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.