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An article from Science News Apr 2022
Most bats don’t echolocate in broad daylight. Here’s an exception
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Leeches expose wildlife’s whereabouts and may aid conservation efforts
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Lithium mining may be putting some flamingos in Chile at risk
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An extinct rat shows CRISPR’s limits for resurrecting species
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Some deep-sea octopuses aren’t the long-haul moms scientists thought they were
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A diamondlike structure gives some starfish skeletons their strength
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Male elephant seals aim to get huge or die trying
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Vinegar eels can synchronize swim
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Urban animals may get some dangerous gut microbes from humans
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Scientists vacuumed animal DNA out of thin air for the first time
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Oxygen-rich exoplanets may be geologically active
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Drug-resistant bacteria evolved on hedgehogs long before the use of antibiotics
An article from Science News Dec 2021
Ancient giant orangutans evolved smaller bodies surprisingly slowly
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Corals may store a surprising amount of microplastics in their skeletons
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Researchers have unlocked the secret to pearls’ incredible symmetry
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Some songbirds now migrate east to west. Climate change may play a role
An article from Science News Sep 2021
Fossil tracks may reveal an ancient elephant nursery
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A newfound boa sports big eyes and a square nose
An article from Science News Sep 2021
Some wasps’ nests glow green under ultraviolet light
An article from Science News Aug 2021
Sunbirds’ dazzling feathers are hot, in both senses of the word
An article from Science News Aug 2021
Squirrels use parkour tricks when leaping from branch to branch
An article from Science News Jul 2021
Insects had flashy, noise-making wings as early as 310 million years ago
An article from Science News Jun 2021
Newly recognized tricks help elephants suck up huge amounts of water
An article from Science News Jun 2021
Even hard-to-kill tardigrades can’t always survive being shot out of a gun
An article from Science News May 2021
Mammal brains may use the same circuits to control tongues and limbs
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Elephants are dying in droves in Botswana. Scientists don't know why
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How researchers can keep birds safe as U.S. wind farms expand
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Yawning helps lions synchronize their groups' movements
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A toxin behind mysterious eagle die-offs may have finally been found
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An ancient dog fossil helps trace humans’ path into the Americas
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A new chameleon species may be the world’s tiniest reptile
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Some electric eels coordinate attacks to zap their prey
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Newborn megalodon sharks were larger than most adult humans
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These spiders may sew leaves into fake shelters to lure frogs to their doom
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A mink in Utah is the first known case of the coronavirus in a wild animal
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A highly contagious face cancer may not wipe out Tasmanian devils after all
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A blue-green glow adds to platypuses’ long list of bizarre features
An article from Science News Nov 2020
A fish’s fins may be as sensitive to touch as fingertips
An article from Science News Nov 2020
How octopuses ‘taste’ things by touching
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Why bat scientists are socially distancing from their subjects
An article from Science News Oct 2020
Before migrating, some blue whales switch up the timing of their songs
An article from Science News Sep 2020
A stray molar is the oldest known fossil from an ancient gibbon
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This hummingbird survives cold nights by nearly freezing itself solid
An article from Science News Aug 2020
How tuataras live so long and can withstand cool weather
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Some spiders may spin poisonous webs laced with neurotoxins
An article from Science News Jul 2020
An ancient skull hints crocodiles swam from Africa to the Americas
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Bizarre caecilians may be the only amphibians with venomous bites
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These tube-shaped creatures may be the earliest known parasites
An article from Science News May 2020
Some comb jellies cannibalize their young when food is scarce
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Why mammals like elephants and armadillos might get drunk easily
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Earthy funk lures tiny creatures to eat and spread bacterial spores
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There’s no evidence the coronavirus jumped from pangolins to people
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Bright yellow spots help some orb weaver spiders lure their next meal
An article from Science News Dec 2019
Ocean acidification could degrade sharks' tough skin
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Why some whales are giants and others are just big
An article from Science News Dec 2019
Licelike insects munched on dinosaur feathers around 100 million years ago
An article from Science News Nov 2019
Silver-backed chevrotains have been ‘rediscovered’ by science after 29 years
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A toe bone hints that Neandertals used eagle talons as jewelry
An article from Science News Oct 2019
Aye-ayes just got weirder with the discovery of a tiny, sixth ‘finger’
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How tardigrades protect their DNA to defy death
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The development of the lithium-ion battery has won the chemistry Nobel Prize
An article from Science News Oct 2019
Losing genes may have helped whales’ ancestors adapt to life under the sea
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We’ve lost 3 billion birds since 1970 in North America
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Birds fed a common pesticide lost weight rapidly and had migration delays
An article from Science News Aug 2019
Big and bold wasp queens may create more successful colonies
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Monkeys can use basic logic to decipher the order of items in a list
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These fungi drug cicadas with psilocybin or amphetamine to make them mate nonstop
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Hyenas roamed the Arctic during the last ice age
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Thousands of birds perished in the Bering Sea. Arctic warming may be to blame
An article from Science News May 2019
Tweaking one gene with CRISPR switched the way a snail shell spirals
An article from Science News May 2019
Deep-sea fishes’ eye chemistry might let them see colors in near darkness
An article from Science News May 2019
Pandas’ share of protein calories from bamboo rivals wolves’ from meat
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Chickens stand sentinel against mosquito-borne disease in Florida
An article from Science News Apr 2019
How emus and ostriches lost the ability to fly
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Bacteria can be coaxed into making the toughest kind of spider silk
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In a first, a fossilized egg is found preserved inside an ancient bird
An article from Science News Feb 2019
DNA from extinct red wolves lives on in some mysterious Texas coyotes
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This honeybee parasite may be more of a fat stealer than a bloodsucker
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A protein in mosquito eggshells could be the insects’ Achilles’ heel
An article from Science News Oct 2018
Giraffes inherit their spots from their mothers
An article from Science News Aug 2018
A fossil mistaken for a bat may shake up lemurs’ evolutionary history
An article from Science News Aug 2018
A resurrected gene may protect elephants from cancer
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Fossil teeth show how a mass extinction scrambled shark evolution
An article from Science News Jul 2018
What leech gut bacteria can tell us about drug resistance
An article from Science News Jul 2018
This amber nugget from Myanmar holds the first known baby snake fossil
An article from Science News Jul 2018
Bird poop helps keep coral reefs healthy, but rats are messing that up
An article from Science News Jul 2018
Researchers create hybrid embryos of endangered white rhinos
An article from Science News Jun 2018
This invasive tick can clone itself and suck livestock dry
An article from Science News Jun 2018
Leaf-cutter ants pick up the pace when they sense rain
An article from Science News Jun 2018
Dogs carry a surprising variety of flu viruses
An article from Science News May 2018
A caterpillar outwits corn defenses by gorging on fattening ‘junk’ food
An article from Science News May 2018
RNA injected from one sea slug into another may transfer memories
An article from Science News May 2018
Here’s how to use DNA to find elusive sharks
An article from Science News Apr 2018
Dogs lived and died with humans 10,000 years ago in the Americas
An article from Science News Mar 2018
Humpback whale bumps have marine biologists stumped
An article from Science News Feb 2018
The last wild horses aren’t truly wild
An article from Science News Feb 2018
Look to penguins to track Antarctic changes
An article from Science News Feb 2018
Pollinators are usually safe from a Venus flytrap
An article from Science News Jan 2018
