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703 results for: Invertebrate

  1. Animals

    Love Code: A twist of light only mantis shrimp can see

    Alone in the animal kingdom, these crustaceans signal their presence to potential mates with circularly polarized light.

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  2. Share Alike: Genes from bacteria found in animals

    Bacteria swap genes all the time, but it now appears that they can give their DNA to some animals as well.

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  3. Chemistry

    Squid beak balances hard and soft

    Yet, the squishy creature’s bite packs a lot of punch.

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  4. Earth

    Naming Your Tax Write-Off

    You can name this newly discovered sea slug — or nudibranch — housed in the Scripps Oceanographic Collections. The catch: It’ll cost you. But that “donation” will be tax deductible.

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  5. Materials Science

    Live Another Day: African insect survives drought in glassy state

    When dehydrated, the larvae of an African fly replace the water in their cells with a sugar, which solidifies and helps keep cellular structures intact.

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  6. Animals

    Not so prudish after all

    Unsuspected genetic diversity found in asexual animals.

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  7. Animals

    Built for Speed

    Animals would prove fierce competitors at the Olympics — if only they would stay in their lanes.

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  8. Computing

    Computing Evolution

    Scientists sift through genetic data sets to better map twisting branches in the tree of life.

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  9. Humans

    From the February 26, 1938, issue

    Evidence of religious head-hunting in ancient Peru, the link between climate and body size, and chest pain tied to obesity.

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  10. Archaeology

    La Brea del Sur

    Excavations at tar pits in Venezuela suggest that the fossils found there may rival those of the famed Rancho La Brea tar pits in Southern California.

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  11. Paleontology

    Ancient slowpoke

    A 1-centimeter-long, 505-million-year-old fossil from British Columbia represents a creature that joins two lineages of marine invertebrates from that era that scientists previously hadn't linked.

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  12. Paleontology

    Back from the Dead?

    The long-term disappearance of creatures from the fossil record and their later reemergence can provide insights into ancient environmental conditions and the trustworthiness of the fossil record itself.

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