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10 Animals That Support Your New Year's Resolutions

Inspired by unique animal behaviors? Explore fresh ways to achieve your New Year's resolutions this year!

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Think you'll need help following through on your New Year's resolutions? Take some inspiration from these news-making animals of 2015. Soon you'll be your best self...or possibly a sea monster. Either way, 2016 is sure to be great.

Get rid of unnecessary clutter This year, students in Denmark discovered that starfish have a startling ability no one had noticed before. When the students injected microchips—or other foreign objects—into starfish, the animals expelled the items out the ends of their arms. They simply pushed unwanted things straight through their skin. Cleaning your closet has to be easier than that. Starfish Ruin an Experiment and Reveal a Superpower

Travel more A species called Omura's whale was seen alive in the wild for the first time. Previously, scientists only knew of the whale from dead specimens. And they knew it lived in the western Pacific—so they were quite surprised to spot the live ...

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