Animals

  1. Animals

    Rising carbon dioxide could leave tiny lake dwellers defenseless

    Rising carbon dioxide in freshwater lakes may change how predators and prey interact.

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  2. Plants

    Blooms on ‘chocolate’ tree are crazy-hard to pollinate

    The cacao trees must be pollinated or those seeds that give us chocolate will never form. The rub: The trees’ flowers challenge all but some of the tiniest pollen-moving insects.

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  3. Animals

    Blowflies keep their cool with drool

    Personal air conditioning the blowfly way: Dangle a droplet of saliva and then swallow it.

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  4. Fossils

    Jackpot! Hundreds of fossilized pterosaur eggs unearthed in China

    A trove of fossilized pterosaur eggs and embryos offer tantalizing clues to the winged reptiles’ early development.

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  5. Animals

    Dog wins tally of nerve cells in the outer wrinkles of the brain

    Golden retrievers rate at the top for numbers of nerve cells, a study of some carnivores finds.

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  6. Animals

    Analyze This: Electric eels’ zaps are more powerful than a TASER

    Shocking! A biologist reached his hand into a fish tank and let an electric eel zap him. It let him measure precisely how strong a current it could unleash to defend itself.

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  7. Animals

    Escaping narwhals can freeze and flee at the same time

    Narwhals’ heart rates plummet while diving quickly to get away from people. The combination may stress the whales as human activity increases in the Arctic.

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  8. Animals

    Humongous land crab dines on remote-island seabirds

    A biologist has documented a coconut crab taking out a seabird as part of a study of the huge invertebrates living on an Indian Ocean archipelago.

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  9. Animals

    Alligators aren’t just freshwater animals

    It’s time to change the textbooks. Alligators have been seen in salty waters snacking on sharks.

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  10. Animals

    Lasers can turn a spider’s silk into sculptures

    Spider silk is strong and super-stretchy. Scientists have developed a way to sculpt that material into unusual, micro-scale shapes using lasers.

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  11. Animals

    Tiny T. rex arms were built for combat

    The fearsome T. rex had more than a mouth full of killer teeth. Its relatively tiny arms also could have served in close combat as powerful slashers.

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  12. Animals

    How these poison frogs avoid poisoning themselves

    Genetic changes protect poison dart frogs from a toxin, but those changes also cause ripple effects.

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