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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
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2021 research reinforced that mating across groups drove human evolution
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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
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Vikings lived in North America by at least the year 1021
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‘Ghost tracks’ suggest people came to the Americas earlier than once thought
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Fossil tracks may reveal an ancient elephant nursery
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A newfound boa sports big eyes and a square nose
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Some wasps’ nests glow green under ultraviolet light
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Stone Age humans or their relatives occasionally trekked through a green Arabia
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Sunbirds’ dazzling feathers are hot, in both senses of the word
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Squirrels use parkour tricks when leaping from branch to branch
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Insects had flashy, noise-making wings as early as 310 million years ago
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Ancient human bones reveal the oldest known strain of the plague
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New clues suggest people reached the Americas around 30,000 years ago
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Newly recognized tricks help elephants suck up huge amounts of water
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Even hard-to-kill tardigrades can’t always survive being shot out of a gun
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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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Little Foot's shoulders hint at how a human-chimp common ancestor climbed
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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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Some Neandertal genes in people today may protect against severe COVID-19
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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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Two stones fuel debate over when America’s first settlers arrived
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A blue-green glow adds to platypuses’ long list of bizarre features
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A fish’s fins may be as sensitive to touch as fingertips
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How octopuses ‘taste’ things by touching
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Why bat scientists are socially distancing from their subjects
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Neandertal babies had stocky chests like their parents
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Before migrating, some blue whales switch up the timing of their songs
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Seven footprints may be the oldest evidence of humans on the Arabian Peninsula
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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
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How tuataras live so long and can withstand cool weather
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Some spiders may spin poisonous webs laced with neurotoxins
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An ancient skull hints crocodiles swam from Africa to the Americas
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South Americans may have traveled to Polynesia 800 years ago
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Bizarre caecilians may be the only amphibians with venomous bites
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Clues to the earliest known bow-and-arrow hunting outside Africa have been found
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These tube-shaped creatures may be the earliest known parasites
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A gene variant partly explains why Peruvians are among the world’s shortest people
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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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Two primate lineages crossed the Atlantic millions of years ago
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Lucy’s species heralded the rise of long childhoods in hominids
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There’s no evidence the coronavirus jumped from pangolins to people
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New fossils and artifacts show Homo erectus crafted a diverse toolkit
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Bright yellow spots help some orb weaver spiders lure their next meal
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Some West Africans may have genes from an ancient ‘ghost’ hominid
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Homo erectus arrived in Indonesia 300,000 years later than previously thought
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Ocean acidification could degrade sharks' tough skin
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Why some whales are giants and others are just big
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Licelike insects munched on dinosaur feathers around 100 million years ago
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A carved rock found in Jordan may be the oldest known chess piece
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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
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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
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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
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A 3.8 million-year-old skull reveals the face of Lucy’s possible ancestors
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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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DNA reveals ancient Siberians who set the stage for the first Americans
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Thousands of birds perished in the Bering Sea. Arctic warming may be to blame
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Tweaking one gene with CRISPR switched the way a snail shell spirals
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Deep-sea fishes’ eye chemistry might let them see colors in near darkness
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Pandas’ share of protein calories from bamboo rivals wolves’ from meat
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A jawbone shows Denisovans lived on the Tibetan Plateau long before humans
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A new hominid species has been found in a Philippine cave, fossils suggest
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Chickens stand sentinel against mosquito-borne disease in Florida
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How emus and ostriches lost the ability to fly
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