Animals

  1. Animals

    Profiles in Courtship: Flirting male fish show their best sides

    Courting male guppies that sport a tad more orange on one side of their bodies than on the other tend to flash that brighter side at females.

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  2. Animals

    Clownfish noisemaker is new to science

    Clownfish make "pop-pop-pop" noises at each other by clacking their teeth together in a novel way.

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  3. Animals

    Moths mimic ‘Don’t eat me’ sounds

    Moths that make clicking noises at predatory bats are mimicking a defensive signal made by other moths that click and also taste bad.

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  4. Animals

    Scary Singing: Precise birds signal, ‘Don’t mess with us’

    A pair of magpie-larks can advertise their toughness by the precision of the duets they sing.

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  5. Animals

    Pothole Pals: Ants pave roads for fellow raiders

    By throwing their bodies into tiny potholes on rough trails, army ants enable their comrade to race over them, improving the colony's overall foraging success.

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  6. Animals

    Virgin Birth: Shark has daughter without a dad

    DNA testing of two sharks confirms an instance of reproduction without mating, adding a fifth major vertebrate lineage to those known for occasional virgin births.

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  7. Animals

    Low Life: Cold, polar ocean looks surprisingly rich

    The first survey of life in deep waters around Antarctica has turned up hundreds of new species and a lot more variety than explorers had expected.

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  8. Animals

    Face it: Termites are roaches

    Termites are just cockroaches with a fancy social life.

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  9. Animals

    Sex—perhaps a good idea after all

    A family of mites may be the first animal lineage shown to have abandoned sexual reproduction and then reevolved it millions of years later.

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  10. Animals

    Egg Shell Game

    Birds apparently cheat chance when it comes to laying eggs that contain sons or daughters.

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  11. Animals

    Spider blood fluoresces

    Among spiders, fluorescence under ultraviolet light seems to be a widespread trait.

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  12. Animals

    Living Fossil: DNA puts rodent in family that’s not extinct after all

    The Laotian rock rat, which is very much alive, belongs to a rodent family that supposedly vanished 11 million years ago.

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