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Earth's biodiversity is vanishing at an alarming rate. This video from National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore shows what we stand to lose. More information is available in his forthcoming book, "RARE: Portraits of America's Endangered Species".

700 pictures through a Coronado Solar Max 60 Double Stack telescope were used to make this video. The Telescope has a very narrow bandpass allowing you to see the chromosphere and not the much brighter photosphere below it.

A Claude, giant crab has been spared from the chef's pot after a Weymouth sealife worker bought him and two others for £3,000 during a trip to Australia. Claude is a whopping 15 inches wide and weighs in at 15 pounds.