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Ancient Trilobites Had Crystal Eyes, And They're Still a Mystery
Nature has tried some pretty wild approaches to life's problems over the eons, and that's true for vision.
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All animal intelligence was shaped by just 5 leaps in brain evolution
From jellyfish to genius, the amazing diversity of animal minds around us evolved through five major changes in the computational capacity of brains.
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‘Mind-boggling’ palm that flowers and fruits underground thrills scientists
New species named Pinanga subterranea as Kew botanists admit they have no idea how its flowers are pollinated
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These 4 Mind-Blowing Facts Show Just How Smart Orcas Really Are
In and around the Strait of Gibraltar that divides Spain from Morocco, orcas are behaving in odd and aggressive ways.
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Humans Actually Have Secret Stripes And Other Strange Markings
Humans have invisible skin patterns, due to a quirk in how our enveloping layer forms.
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Marsupials Are 'Far More Evolved' Than Other Mammals, Even Humans
A new study challenges the idea that marsupials are more 'primitive' than mammals by showing their development has changed more than mammals since they last shared an ancestor.
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Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. But why?
Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population through social learning.
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Bees can do so much more than you think – from dancing to being little art critics
We all know bees are vital pollinators. But they’re also art critics, social learners, dancers and so much more.
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Friday essay: peyotes in suburbia – the secret world of Sydney's psychoactive cacti growers
They tend backyards brimming with cactus varieties, consuming the produce. Prudence Gibson meets a hidden group of gardeners and ponders the allure – and – danger of psychoactive plants.
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An epic global study of moss reveals it is far more vital to Earth's ecosystems than we knew
Data from 123 sites across all continents, including Antarctica, show mosses affect all major soil functions critical for sustaining life on Earth.
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A Hidden Underwater Resource Is Worth Way More Than Expected, Study Reveals
Researchers have just calculated the value society gets from a common but hidden underwater resource, and found it's way higher than we ever expected.
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70-Year-Old Mystery Over Bizarre 'Tully Monster' May Finally Have Been Solved
The most thorough study yet of a mysterious creature that lived 300 million years ago has ruled that it had no bones after all.
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Mosquito Saliva Can Actually Suppress Our Immune System, Study Finds
We know mosquitoes are a serious threat to our health as human beings– in fact, they're the world's deadliest animal, with mosquito-borne diseases responsible for more than a million deaths a year.
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Scientists Are Thinking About Cloning an Extinct, Mummified Bison
The newly discovered bison from an unknown extinct species is thought to have been around 1.5-2 years old when it died between 8,000 and 9,000 years ago, according to scientists at the Mammoth Museum of North-Eastern Federal University in Russia.
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Rarely Seen Wombat 'Sideways' Sex Shows Just How Wild Animal Reproduction Can Get
If you look at where wombats deposit their poo, you realize they must be able to perform some surprising acrobatics.
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This Incredible Flower Makes Fake Flies, And We Finally Know How
A flower's ability to mimic the sexually attractive traits of pollinators to lure them to its nectar has long fascinated scientists.
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NSFW Purely for Pleasure
For years we've barely even talked about the human clitoris let alone the fact that snakes have TWO. This program has adult themes.
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Breakthrough as eggs made from male mice cells
A Japanese researcher has told a major genetics conference that he has created eggs from the cells of male mice. The research, still in its early stages, involved turning male XY sex chromosomes into female XX ones.
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The Bizarre Evolution of Hemipenes (yes...hemipenes.)
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This Strange Ancient 'Fossil' May Not Have Been Left by Any Living Thing
An ancient three-dimensional star-shaped 'thing' still baffles scientists more than a century after its discovery.
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