Animals

  1. Animals

    Scientists Say: Larva

    Many insects, amphibians and fish have a life stage after they hatch that looks very different from the animal’s adult form. This life stage has its own name.

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  2. Animals

    Cool Jobs: Sucking up science with mosquitoes

    Mosquitoes are tiny, but the illnesses they spread can be deadly. To fight these germ spreaders, scientists need to get to know mosquitoes better — much better.

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  3. Earth

    Nine big stories you may have missed this summer

    We hope you enjoyed time off from school this summer. But you may have missed some scientific developments, from mega-eruptions to Martian lakes.

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  4. Animals

    Where did all of those king penguins go?

    Île aux Cochons in the southern Indian Ocean was once home to the largest known colony of king penguins. Most of those birds are now gone and no one knows why.

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  5. Animals

    What ‘The Meg’ doesn’t quite get right about megalodon sharks

    A paleobiologist helps separate shark fact from fiction in the new Jason Statham film The Meg.

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  6. Animals

    Scientists Say: Nematocyst

    Nematocysts are special cells in some ocean critters, such as jellyfish, sea anenomes and corals. They have a barb coated in venom that shoots out at their prey.

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  7. Genetics

    Koala genes could help scientists save these furry animals

    Scientists have examined the clues within koalas’ genetic instruction book. They are learning more about how to save these cuddly creatures.

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  8. Fossils

    There’s more than one way to build a giant dinosaur

    Some early long-necked dinosaurs may have built big bodies from a different blueprint than their later giant relatives.

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  9. Animals

    Electric currents in the air may cue ‘ballooning’ spiders on when to take off

    Some spider species float on the breeze using a parachute of silk. A new study suggests electrical charges in the air help spiders time these flights.

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  10. Animals

    Here’s how a clam can hide within a rock

    Old boring clam research has been upended after 82 years.

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  11. Genetics

    Toxic toads pose threat to Madagascar’s predators

    The Asian common toad, an invasive species in Madagascar, produces a chemical in its skin that’s probably toxic to most of the island’s predators.

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  12. Animals

    An Asian, self-cloning tick threatens U.S. livestock

    The longhorned tick spreads human diseases in its East Asian homeland. Now it’s invaded the United States. There, it has threatened mostly livestock — so far, anyway.

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