The glowing patterns on the underside of a lantern shark may help camouflage the animal from below, scientists say. Hormones trigger the luminescence, a new study shows.
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The long, tubular proboscis (arrow, left image) sported by some species of scorpionflies suggests that the insects were pollinating ancient plants including conifers (right) millions of years before flowers evolved.
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Fresh view from Hubble. The Hubble Space Telescope’s new Wide Field Camera 3 captured this image of the spiral arm of the M83 galaxy, which is 15 million light-years from Earth. The image reveals individual stars as well as clusters of stars both old and new, NASA reports. Read more about Hubble’s recent upgrade.Found in: Atom & Cosmos
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A Misumena vatia spider doesn't at all match her flower but even this fashion disaster doesn't keep her from catching as much prey as color-coordinated females. Here she has ambushed a syrphid fly.
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Glaciers and other permanent ice masses atop Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro are shrinking fast and may be gone by 2022, a new research study suggests.
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Cosmic rays traced to centers of star birth. Researchers have detected gamma rays from the galaxy M82 (a false-color image shows a very-high-energy gamma-ray emission). The gamma rays are evidence that regions of star formation (shown here as a black star) in galaxies such as M82 are sources of cosmic rays with energies of up to quadrillions of electron volts.
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Unicorn fly of the Cretaceous. An artist's rendering of an insect that lived 100 million years ago shows the unusual horn on its head topped by three small eyes. Full story.Found in: Life
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A male jumping spider of the unusual species Evarcha culicivora is looking for a female with the right kind of blood-perfumed after-dinner scent. Full story.Found in: Biology and Life
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European robins, like the one shown here, navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field. New work suggests these birds host their main compass in their eyes, not their beaks.
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Three different dinosaurs — Dracorex, Stygimoloch and Pachycephalosaurus (clockwise from top left) — might actually be the juvenile, teen and adult of the same dino.
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