✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • October 16, 2025

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In today's science news: Flamingos are back in Florida 🦩, "unsexy" moths 👎, and why ocean waves break down 🌊. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🦩 Flamingos are returning to Florida after a century • The Conversation

👎 Researchers created "unsexy" moths that cannot attract mates • Phys.org

🌊 Mathematicians finally proved why ocean waves break down, solving a centuries-old puzzle • Quanta

🦋 A wildlife rehabilitator performed a wing transplant on a monarch butterfly using contact cement and cornstarch • Vice

🐟 A fish dropped by a bird smashed through a Saskatchewan woman's windshield • CBC

🪵 Engineers turned ordinary wood into material as strong as steel but six times lighter • Gizmodo

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