Animals

  1. Animals

    The moon drives the migration of Arctic zooplankton

    In the darkness of the Arctic winter, the moon replaces the sun as the driver of zooplankton migration, a new study finds.

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  2. Animals

    The mites living on your face probably run in your family

    Demodex folliculorum mites, which live on human skin, have probably evolved with their hosts over time.

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  3. Animals

    Littlest chameleons pack powerful tongues

    A tiny chameleon from South Africa sets an acceleration and power record for amniotes.

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  4. Animals

    Small lizard packs powerful tongue

    A tiny chameleon from South Africa sets an acceleration and power record for amniotes.

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  5. Paleontology

    Saber-toothed salmon teeth more like tusks than fangs

    Saber-toothed salmon teeth may not have been positioned like fangs at all.

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  6. Animals

    Animals get struck by lightning, too

    Scientists found a group of sea lions apparently dead from a lightning strike. But those animals certainly aren’t the first animals to die that way.

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  7. Animals

    Sharks follow their noses home

    Leopard sharks draw on scents to navigate back to shore, study suggests.

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  8. Animals

    When tarantulas grow blue hair

    Azure coloring is surprisingly common in the spiders, though they themselves are colorblind.

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  9. Physics

    Aircraft industry could take tips from penguins

    Tiny grooves and an oily sheath prevent water droplets from freezing on the feathers of some penguins.

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  10. Animals

    Ants’ size and profession controlled by chemical tags on DNA

    Epigenetic marks determine whether female Florida carpenter ants are soldiers or foragers.

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  11. Paleontology

    12 amazing fossil finds of 2015

    From an ancient sponge ancestor to the Carolina Butcher, scientists learned a lot about life on Earth this year.

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  12. Animals

    Lemurs chat only with their best friends

    Ring-tailed lemurs maintain friendships built with grooming by calling to each other, a new study finds.

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