Life

  1. Animals

    Little beetle, big horns

    Why do dung beetles have horns? Biologists sniff out some answers.

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  2. Plants

    The Book of Life

    Work has begun on a Web site called the Encyclopedia of Life, which aims to catalog every species on Earth.

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  3. Brain

    Talking with Hands

    Studies of chimpanzees suggest that our ancestors may have "talked" to each other using hand gestures before they learned to speak.

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  4. Fossils

    A Living Fossil

    Scientists have discovered that an Asian rodent belongs to a family of animals that had been thought to be extinct.

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  5. Animals

    Big squid

    Florida fishermen recently hauled in a squid that's like no other ever found in the Atlantic Ocean.

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  6. Animals

    Cacophony acoustics

    How do frogs hear each other in a noisy pond? Just the way we would, as it turns out.

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  7. Animals

    Helping the cause of macaws

    Scientists' discoveries about macaws may help these magnificent birds survive.

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  8. Animals

    Revenge of the cowbirds

    Some cowbirds seem to force other birds to raise their chicks.

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  9. Brain

    Chimpanzee hunting tools

    Some chimps, especially youngsters and female adults, use spearlike wooden tools to hunt.

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  10. Animals

    A meal plan for birds

    Scrub jays do a bird version of planning ahead for their next meal.

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  11. Fossils

    An Ancient Feathered Biplane

    A dinosaur may have glided from tree to tree on two sets of wings, one below the other.

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  12. Animals

    Odor-chasing penguins

    Penguins may use their sense of smell to locate food in the ocean.

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