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Unique song reveals new owl species in Indonesia
Want to find a new species of owl? Just listen. A unique whistling call have led scientists to discover a new owl on the Indonesian island of Lombok, according to a new study in PLoS ONE. Two scientific expeditions, occurring separately but within a few days of each other, both noticed something different about the calls coming from owls on Lombok.
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Confirmed: There's life in buried Antarctic lake
Blobs and smears of microbial life growing in clear plastic disks are confirmation of a community living in a lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice, scientists studying the lake have said.
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Black Trevally and Sardines
A black trevally letting the sardines get used to it before attacking them unexpectedly
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You’ve Never Experienced A Museum Quite Like This…
Austrian photographer Klaus Pichler was casually strolling around the Museum of Natural History in Vienna, when he noticed a stuffed antelope positioned in such a way that it looked like it was interacting with it’s new environment.
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Rough Green Snake
Rough green snake in a Japanese maple tree. The irony of this photograph is that this incredibly angry looking pose is actually the snake yawning.
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New Ancient Members of Whale Family Found
These ancient relatives of modern baleen whales had teeth instead of baleen, which modern whales use to filter feed.
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Should we bring extinct species back to life?
On July 30, 2003, a team of Spanish and French scientists reversed time. They brought an animal back from extinction, if only to watch it become extinct again. The animal they revived was a kind of wild goat known as a bucardo, or Pyrenean ibex. The bucardo (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) was a large, handsome creature, reaching up to 220 pounds and sporting long, gently curved horns...
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Scientists want to bring 22 animals back from extinction
Last weekend at a TEDx conference in Washington DC sponsored by National Geographic, scientists met to discuss which animals should be brought back from extinction. They also discussed the how, why and ethics of doing so.
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One of Us
These are stimulating times for anyone interested in questions of animal consciousness. On what seems like a monthly basis, scientific teams announce the results of new experiments, adding to a preponderance of evidence that we’ve been underestimating animal minds,
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This man has the role of Alpha male within a wolf pack
A 79-year-old former military man has devoted his life to the beautiful but dangerous wolves that inhabit his wolf park in Germany. In order to better learn about the wolves, Werner Freund has tried to become one of them, waking among them and feeding them raw meat from the ground, according to the Daily Mail.
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8 Animals That Are Just Lazy Combinations of Other Animals
It turns out nature gets off on haphazardly stapling DNA together and calling it a day.
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Raccoon Walks On Power Lines!!
Amazing :)
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Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
The insect is so large — as big as a human hand — it's been dubbed a "tree lobster." It was thought to be extinct, but some enterprising entomologists scoured a barren hunk of rock in the middle of the ocean and found surviving Lord Howe Island stick insects.
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How to Hatch a Dinosaur
What we’re trying to do is take our chicken, modify it, and make a chickensaurus.
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Nature reserves attract new species
Since the 1960s, there has been a natural influx of wetland bird species from continental Europe. Species such as whooper swans, Cetti's warblers and little egrets have used the nature reserves to colonise new areas of the UK, found the scientists.
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Attack of the giant snails in Florida
Florida, already threatened with sinkholes, now has a new terror: rat-sized, tire-puncturing snails.Sounding like something out of a 1950s B-movie, these giant African land snails eat their way through some surprising stuff, including stucco, plastic recycling bins, signs and more than 500 species of plants, says the Florida Department of Agriculture.
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14 Fun Facts About Penguins
Which penguin swims the fastest? Do penguins have teeth? Why do penguins sneeze? How is penguin poop useful?
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New York Fighting Invasive Fish That Can Live Out Of Water For Days
The northern snakehead fish is native to China, Russia, and Korea, but has been spotted in New York City. The fish eats frogs and crayfish and has the ability to breathe air and live for days out of water in certain conditions. So naturally, it must be eradicated.
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Western Black Rhino Declared Extinct..
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, Africa’s western black rhino is now officially extinct. After being a victim of increasingly devastating poaching and seeing little to no conservation efforts, the species is now gone, and others – including the northern white rhino and Asia’s Javan rhino – are expected to swiftly follow unless efforts to stop the senseless killing of them prevail.
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How to Know It's Real Love
Is it love, or a mutual strangulation society? Martha Beck shows you five ways to get a real grip on the real thing.
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