Animals
- Animals
Cool Jobs: Delving into dung
Scientists uncover fascinating secrets through the study of animal feces.
- Animals
When the nose no longer knows
Pollution can endanger aquatic animals by damaging their sense of smell.
- Animals
Threatened coral get fishy rescue
When toxic seaweed gets too close to this coral, gobies fight and bite back.
- Animals
Bird malaria moves north
Germs that cause a so-called tropical disease make themselves at home in frosty Alaska.
- Oceans
Icy inns at Earth’s end
Intrepid researchers discover icebergs host large and lively communities of life.
- Animals
Cool Jobs: Scents of science
Better understanding of the sense of smell inspires research into everything from whales to electronic ‘noses’
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- Animals
Monkeys’ mistake detector
Specific brain cells in macaques respond to fellow animal’s error.
- Animals
Python-palooza!
Monster-sized Burmese python bearing record-number of eggs retrieved in the Florida Everglades.
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- Animals
Cool Jobs: Studying what you love
Researchers study the same animals that fascinated them as kids.
- Animals
Chimp’s gift for numbers
Translating numbers into colors may explain an animal’s apparent memory trick.
