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Animals we’ve lost: the vivid ‘waving’ frog that vanished suddenly
Chiriquí harlequin frogs went extinct in 1996 due to a fungal disease that has driven the decline of 501 amphibian species
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Daintree Rainforest Documentary in 4K | Australia Nature | Queensland | Original Documentary
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BULLET ANT CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! What is it REALLY Like?
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Fire ant rafts form because of the Cheerios effect, study concludes
Fire ants will change shape of the raft to reduce drag and adapt to fluid flows.
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Research Highlights: Pathogenic Fungus On Infected Dead Female Flies Fools Male Flies To Mate
The recognition species concept is an idea that a species is characterized by a unique fertilization system that restricts gene-flow with other species.
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Scientists discover that it takes 10 ants to form a stable raft
Ants prefer not to make a collective raft when on water. However, once there are 10 insects near each other, the so-called Cheerios effect pushes them together and is too strong to counteract
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Google's foldable Pixel phone gets a big release date update
If you’ve been eagerly hoping for a foldable version of Google’s popular Pixel smartphone, your wait may soon be over.
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Nature's response to urban sprawl
It’s a new and surprising chapter in the theory of evolution. According to recent studies, it’s in our cities, of all places, that animals and plants adapt particularly quickly to changing living conditions.
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Does This Fisherman Have the Right to Be in a Billionaire’s Backyard?
A fight along Colorado’s waterways pits an alliance of white-water rafters and amateur anglers against some of the nation’s wealthiest landowners, bruising the image of a sportsman’s paradise.
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Bird flu has killed 700 wild black vultures, says Georgia sanctuary
Exclusion zone set up around Noah’s Ark sanctuary in US amid outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 strain
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The world's smallest sea turtle nests in Louisiana for the first time in 75 years
Kemp's ridley sea turtles have hatched in Louisiana's wilds, officials say, in a victory for barrier island restoration. The tiny turtle is also believed to be the world's most endangered.
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Canada's Hudson Bay a summer refuge for thousands of belugas
Half a dozen beluga whales dive and reemerge around tourist paddle boards in Canada's Hudson Bay, a handful of about 55,000 of the creatures that migrate from the Arctic to the bay's more temperate waters each summer.
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Do spiders dream? A new study suggests they do.
Jumping spiders rapidly move their eyes and twitch during rest, suggesting they have visual dreams, never before observed in arachnids.
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The hybrid tree that conquered the world
In an unremarkable corner of London's Cheapside district, tucked away behind black wrought-iron fencing, is one of the city's oldest residents. With a towering frame and slightly stooped posture, capped with a broad thatch of leathery, star-shaped leaves, this venerable giant is thought to have presided over the city since at least the 18th Century.
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The Hidden Chaos That Lurks in Ecosystems
PHYSICAL SCIENTISTS SEEM to find the phenomenon of chaos everywhere: in the orbits of planets, in weather systems, in a river’s swirling eddies. For nearly three decades, ecologists considered chaos in the living world to be surprisingly rare by comparison. A new analysis, however, reveals that chaos is far more prevalent in ecosystems than researchers thought.
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Why the Echidna is Australia's Most Delightfully Different Mammal
The evolutionary marvel mates in love trains, can swim in the ocean, and even uses jazz hands as a defensive tactic.
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Bumblebees kept in isolation make up for it by being more social later
Princeton researchers studied the Common Eastern Bumblebee to learn how social isolation impacts behavior and brain development.
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Bison back in the UK: the inside story
They’ve been absent in the UK wild for thousands of years, but now a special project has welcomed these “woolly bulldozers” home.
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There are 40% more tigers in the world than previously estimated
The number of tigers in the wild has gone up dramatically since 2015 — largely because of improvements in monitoring them, but the species remains endangered.
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Which endangered species should we save? Humans face tough choices about what lives — and what dies
Given the option of saving the iconic monarch butterfly or a giant slug, what would you choose? As more species are pushed to the brink of extinction, humans will have to decide the winners and losers of the animal kingdom.
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