Life

  1. Animals

    Have we found bigfoot? Not yeti

    Believe in bigfoot or sasquatch? The scientific evidence says bears are to blame for traces of yeti and abominable snowmen. But it’s ok to keep searching.

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  2. Animals

    This spider slingshots itself at extreme speeds to catch prey

    By winding up its web like a slingshot, this spider achieves an acceleration rate far faster than a cheetah’s.

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  3. Animals

    Spiders’ weird meals show how topsy-turvy Amazon food webs can be

    Rare sightings of invertebrates eating small vertebrates upend some assumptions about who eats who in the Amazon rainforest’s complex ecosystem.

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  4. Animals

    The world’s largest bee was lost, but now it’s found

    Wallace’s giant bee hadn’t been spotted in the wild in almost 40 years. Now, scientists have found it again.

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  5. Animals

    How these maggots efficiently demolish a pizza

    Mobs of black soldier fly larvae create a living fountain that lifts slowpoke noneaters out of the way.

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  6. Animals

    Hermit crabs are drawn to the smell of their dead

    A new study finds that the smell of hermit-crab flesh attracts other hermit crabs desperately looking for a larger home.

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  7. Environment

    Life on Earth is mostly green

    A new survey of life on Earth finds that plants and microbes dominate. But even though humans are in the minority, they still play a major role.

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  8. Life

    Explainer: Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

    Prokaryotes tend to be small and simple, while eukaryotes have embraced a highly organized lifestyle. These divergent approaches to life have both proved very successful.

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  9. Animals

    Could an elephant ever fly?

    Dumbo is known as the only elephant to take flight. He’s not real. But could he be?

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  10. Fossils

    Mini tyrannosaur fills big evolutionary gap

    A newfound dinosaur named “omen of doom” fills a gap in tyrannosaur evolution. It helps to narrow when the group sized up.

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  11. Psychology

    What part of us knows right from wrong?

    Our conscience may have evolved from our need to cooperate. Scientists are learning where the brain’s moral centers are, and how they make us human.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Fevers can have some cool benefits

    Fever boosts the immune system by zipping germ-busting cells to the site of an infection, new data show.

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