✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • October 20, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
October 20th, 2025

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In today's science news: A rare lobster finds a home in Massachusetts 🦞, how to find find fossils in your city 🐚, and a high-tech banana that may save us billions 🍌. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

When it comes to a healthy ecosystem, pollinators and apex predators get much of the attention. But some of nature’s most important work happens at a different scale entirely.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🦞 Rare calico lobster with orange shell and black freckles finds a home in Massachusetts • Smithsonian Magazine

🧊 Antarctica's ice is melting like Greenland's, defying predictions it would remain stable for millennia • Ars Technica

📱Constant phone use eliminates boredom, preventing brains from confronting meaningful life questions • Open Culture

🍌 A new CRISPR-edited banana launching in 2026 stays yellow for 12 hours after peeling • ZME Science

🐚 How to find 150-million-year-old fossils hidden in city building stones • BBC

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