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Researchers want to unlock genetics of the world’s tiniest animals
The world’s largest animals often get most of the spotlight—but some biologists argue the tiniest ones deserve just as much, if not even more, study. Now, with a roughly $1.66 million grant from the...
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Whales need krill to survive. We want it for supplements.
While krill may be small to look at, these shrimp-like crustaceans play an outsized role in the global food web. They support the diets of several whale species, including the largest animals to ever...
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‘Weird’ prehistoric bird had a weaponized beak with teeth
Some roughly 120-million-year-old seeds are telling a new story about what the Earth’s first birds ate. Paleontologists found the seeds in the fossilized stomachs of an early bird species, despite a...
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The ‘living fossil’ that thrived during a mass extinction
Paleontologists recently discovered a new extinct coelacanth species that highlights the role that Earth’s plate tectonics plays in evolution. Also called Latimeria, coelacanths are a deep-sea fish...
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Gnarly wasp gruesomely rips apart fruit flies from the inside out with its...
A team of biologists recently discovered a new parasitic wasp species in the United States that has a unique way of infecting its hosts. Syntretus perlmani lays its eggs in the bodies of living, adult...
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Polar bears adapted to the Arctic just 70,000 years ago
The Arctic is not the most hospitable place on Earth. Some Arctic animals like reindeer have several genetic adaptations to help them thrive there, and one of the region’s top predators is no...
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Seriously grumpy-faced fish discovered in Red Sea
A newly discovered bright red fish species could fill the Grumpy Cat-sized hole in the internet’s heart. This new species is named Sueviota aethon, but goes by the common name grumpy dwarfgoby. The...
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This lizard’s skin creates an underwater bubble helmet
Animals have evolved all manner of methods to evade danger. For one lizard species living in the tropical forests of Costa Rica, their unique escape tactic involves a makeshift oxygen tank that allows...
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Humans likely wiped out Cyprus’ tiny hippos and elephants in record time
Thousands of years before a tiny pygmy hippopotamus from a zoo in Thailand named Moo Dang became an internet sensation, an extinct species of dwarf hippos (Phanourios minor) roamed a lush...
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Elusive whale’s Star Trek-like call could be their version of ‘Marco Polo’
Whales are known for their noises, from humpback whale songs to the clicks and whistles of orcas and other toothed cetaceans. The elusive and understudied Bryde’s whale makes an even more mysterious...
View ArticleNew tool helps scientists identify venomous snakes
While only about 10 percent of the roughly 4,000 known snake species have venom that can harm a human, using genetics to determine which snakes could be deadly could speed up developing better...
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The ‘living fossil’ that thrived during a mass extinction
Paleontologists recently discovered a new extinct coelacanth species that highlights the role that Earth’s plate tectonics plays in evolution. Also called Latimeria, coelacanths are a deep-sea fish...
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Gnarly wasp gruesomely rips apart fruit flies from the inside out with its...
A team of biologists recently discovered a new parasitic wasp species in the United States that has a unique way of infecting its hosts. Syntretus perlmani lays its eggs in the bodies of living, adult...
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Humans likely wiped out Cyprus’ tiny hippos and elephants in record time
Thousands of years before a tiny pygmy hippopotamus from a zoo in Thailand named Moo Dang became an internet sensation, an extinct species of dwarf hippos (Phanourios minor) roamed a lush...
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Elusive whale’s vocalization could be their version of ‘Marco Polo’
Whales are known for their noises, from humpback whale songs to the clicks and whistles of orcas and other toothed cetaceans. The elusive and understudied Bryde’s whale makes an even more mysterious...
View ArticleNew tool helps scientists identify venomous snakes
While only about 10 percent of the roughly 4,000 known snake species have venom that can harm a human, using genetics to determine which snakes could be deadly could speed up developing better...
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Dead man’s fingers is the creepiest fungi in the forest
The best Halloween decorations sometimes come directly from nature. Intricate spider webs, enormous pumpkins, and a fungus that might stop you dead in your tracks. Commonly called dead man’s fingers,...
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Polar bears adapted to the Arctic just 70,000 years ago
The Arctic is not the most hospitable place on Earth. Some Arctic animals like reindeer have several genetic adaptations to help them thrive there, and one of the region’s top predators is no...
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Seriously grumpy-faced fish discovered in Red Sea
A newly discovered bright red fish species could fill the Grumpy Cat-sized hole in the internet’s heart. This new species is named Sueviota aethon, but goes by the common name grumpy dwarfgoby. The...
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Humans likely wiped out Cyprus’ tiny hippos and elephants in record time
Thousands of years before a tiny pygmy hippopotamus from a zoo in Thailand named Moo Dang became an internet sensation, an extinct species of dwarf hippos (Phanourios minor) roamed a lush...
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