These Are the Cutest Animal Videos of 2014, According to the World’s Leading Science Journal

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Nature is one of the world’s flagship peer-reviewed scientific journals, a venue for some of our best new ideas about the world. Sometimes, those ideas are about animals that also happen to be outrageously, unconscionably cute. I’m talking baby-penguins-and-pomeranians-and-monkeys-cute. This morning the ingenious folks in Nature‘s video department rounded them all up into one face-melting video.

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