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An article from Science News Feb 2021
A new chameleon species may be the world’s tiniest reptile
An article from Science News Jan 2021
Some electric eels coordinate attacks to zap their prey
An article from Science News Jan 2021
Newborn megalodon sharks were larger than most adult humans
An article from Science News Jan 2021
These spiders may sew leaves into fake shelters to lure frogs to their doom
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Amber
Most commonly, a generic name for all fossil resins, although it has been restricted by some to refer only to succinite, the mineralogical species of fossil resin that includes most of the Baltic Coast deposits. The time necessary to transform resin…
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Anthropocene extinction
An ongoing current event in which a large number of living species are threatened with extinction or are going extinct because of environmentally destructive human activities. The Earth is presently in the midst of a mass extinction event. In the…
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Bean
Any of several leguminous plants, or their seeds, long utilized as food by humans or livestock. There are more than 40,000 varieties of beans, with only a small number of these being mass-produced for human or animal consumption. In particular,…
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Burrowing animals
Terrestrial and aquatic animals that are capable of excavating holes in the ground for protection from adverse environmental conditions, as well as for storing food. Burrowing animals are uniquely adapted species, having the capacity to dig burrows…
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Camel
A member of the mammalian family Camelidae in the order Artiodactyla. Camels are even-toed, hoofed mammals (ungulates). There are three extant camel species: the Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus; Fig. 1), the wild Bactrian camel (C. ferus), and…