Animals

  1. Physics

    Pentaquarks, locked-in syndrome and more reader feedback

    Readers discuss pentaquark sightings, delightful diatoms and whether an ancient four-legged fossil was actually a snake.

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  2. Genetics

    Asian tiger mosquito genome sequenced

    Researchers have sequenced the genome of the Asian tiger mosquito, a stealthy invasive species and carrier of tropical diseases.

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  3. Animals

    How architecture can make ants better workers

    The right nest architecture can make harvester ants better at their job, new research shows.

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  4. Animals

    For glowworms, the brightest girls get the guy

    Brighter female glowworms attract more mates and lay more eggs than their dimmer peers.

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  5. Paleontology

    300 million-year-old giant shark swam the Texas seas

    Fossil find shows oldest known ‘supershark,’ about the size of a limo, prowled the ocean 300 million years ago.

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  6. Animals

    ‘Whalecopter’ drone swoops in for a shot and a shower

    Whale biologists are monitoring the health of whales using drones that snap photos and then swoop in to sample spray.

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  7. Animals

    DNA trail leads to new spot for dog domestication

    A new study suggests that dogs were first domesticated in Central Asia.

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  8. Animals

    Slow, cold reptiles may breathe like energetic birds

    Finding birdlike air patterns in lungs of crocodilians and in more distantly related lizards raises the possibility that one-way airflow evolved far earlier than birds themselves did.

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  9. Animals

    Marine biologist chronicles a lifelong love of fishing

    In A Naturalist Goes Fishing, a marine biologist takes readers on a round-the-world fishing expedition

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  10. Paleontology

    New evidence weakens case against climate in woolly mammoths’ death

    Hunters responsible for woolly mammoths’ extinction, suggests a chemical analysis of juveniles’ tusks.

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  11. Climate

    High-flying birds recruited for meteorology

    Monitoring the midflight movements of high-flying birds can provide valuable meteorological data, new research shows.

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  12. Animals

    How to drink like a bat

    Some bats stick out their tongues and throbs carry nectar to their mouths.

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