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  1. Environment

    Replacement for toxic chemical in plastics, receipts may be just as toxic

    Mounting evidence suggests that BPS, a common chemical in plastics, may cause the same health effects as BPA.

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  2. Animals

    Zebra finches go mad with mercury, and other animal updates

    Mercury exposure makes zebra finches bold and hyperactive, and additional research from the 2014 Animal Behavior Society Meeting.

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  3. Animals

    Fish lose their fear on a denuded reef

    Juvenile damselfish lose their ability to smell danger when in a degraded habitat.

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  4. Paleontology

    Fish gill fossils gnaw at ideas of jaw evolution

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  5. Environment

    How oil breaks fish hearts

    Hydrocarbons that spill into oceans stifle the beat of tuna cardiac cells.

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  6. Animals

    Apes do the darndest things

    Several chimp behaviors have researchers wondering if apes are a good model for early hominid life.

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  7. Life

    Hatcheries’ metal can disrupt steelhead magnetic sense

    Growing up in magnetic fields distorted by pipes and electronics confounds young fish’s inherited map sense.

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  8. Ecosystems

    If you really hate a species, try eating it

    Dining on invasive fish such as snakehead and lionfish can reduce their numbers, but we can’t entirely eat our way out this problem.

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  9. Animals

    Lionfish dance can recruit partner for hunting

    Slow but superb predators recruit pals for cooperative hunting, often striking in what looks like well-mannered turn taking.

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  10. Paleontology

    Mystery fossils belonged to giant ostrichlike dinosaur

    Two recently found skeletons reveal that Deinocheirus, first discovered 50 years ago, was the largest-known dinosaur of its kind.

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  11. Life

    Find your inner fish with PBS series on human evolution

    A new documentary explores how the human body came together over 3.5 billion years of animal evolution.

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  12. Animals

    How human activities may be creating coywolves

    Endangered red wolves will mate with coyotes when their partners are killed, which often happens because of human activities, a new study finds.

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