Tragically, poaching has significantly reduced wild rhino and elephant populations. But one San Francisco startup has a plan to change that, thanks to 3D printing technology.
Check out a photo of what they have to offer, along with 24 other cool and informative pics right here.
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Ramform Atlas, a seismic survey ship that was recently used to find a 66 million-year-old impact crater.
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Nima Rinji Sherpa: An 18-year-old Nepalese broke the world record to become youngest mountaineer to summit Earth's 14 highest peaks.
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A circus trainer giving a lion a bath in the early 1900s.
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Coelacanths and other lobe-finned fish are more closely related to us than they are to other fish like sharks and salmon.
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A San Francisco startup, Pembient, is using biotechnology to 3D print fake rhino horns that match the real ones in genetic makeup. Their plan? To flood the Chinese market, where the demand for rhino horns has driven poaching to critical levels.
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An ancient Indian stepwell from above.
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Photo of a frog with its eyes in its mouth due to a genetic mutation.
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Close-up of a human molar tooth.
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Cyclocosmia truncata, a trapdoor spider, uses its disc-shaped abdomen as a defense mechanism. When threatened, it retreats into its burrow and seals the entrance by wedging its hard abdomen into the tunnel.
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The Longmen Grottoes, located near Luoyang in China, are a series of Buddhist cave temples carved into the cliffs along the Yi River during the Northern Wei and Tang Dynasties.
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Very young federal soldiers during the "Decena Tragica." February 9-18 of 1913. Mexico city, Mexico.
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The Bailong elevator is the world's tallest elevator.
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Behind the scenes of the last “Back to the Future” movie, 1990.
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German observation tower in Guernsey.
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A caustic is a pattern of bright dots and lines formed on some surface when light falling on it undergoes reflection or refraction.
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In 1997, Tony "Apollo" Allison had an 11-hour standoff with Seattle police, wielding a samurai sword. He was eventually subdued with tear gas and returned to psychiatric care.
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The scaly foot snail is an extremophile that lives at ocean vents with temperatures up to 400⁰C. It has the largest heart per body size in the animal kingdom, and its shell is partially made of iron. It’s the only known organism to use metal in its skeleton.
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Polar bear navigating arctic sea ice.
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A human eye and pupil up close.
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12-year-old girl April Atkins carries her family on her back in Muscle Beach, California, 1954.
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The coast of New Zealand has very strong winds, so the trees here have learned to grow sideways.
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Solar farm on a mountaintop in Shanxi, northern China.
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A cat's tongue under a microscope.
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The Antonov An-225 was the world's largest plane until it was destroyed at the Battle of Antonov Airport during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
