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Saiga antelopes have increased 10-fold after mass die-off in 2015
More than a million large-nose antelopes now roam the Kazakhstan steppe, a big rebound from the 130,000 animals left after…
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T. rex’s unusual eye sockets helped it evolve a powerful bite
Some large, meat-eating dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex had keyhole-shaped eye sockets, and reconstructions suggest this helped them bite with…
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Sponges can ‘sneeze’ and other sea creatures eat their mucus
Despite having no nerves or muscles, sea sponges slowly contract to squeeze sand and debris out of the openings they…
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Giant yellow crustacean in an aquarium turns out to be new species
By Corryn Wetzel Bathynomus yucatanensis is one of nearly two dozen known giant isopod species found in the deep sea.…
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‘The Sacrifice Zone’: Myanmar bears cost of green energy
By DAKE KANG, VICTORIA MILKO and LORI HINNANT August 9, 2022 GMT https://apnews.com/article/technology-forests-myanmar-75df22e8d7431a6757ea4a426fbde94c The birds no longer sing, and the…
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Hummingbird that was feared extinct is spotted in Colombian mountains
The Santa Marta sabrewing, an emerald green hummingbird, has been officially documented for only the second time since it was…
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Cambridge lab for clever birds saved from closure by public donations
The “corvid palace”, a renowned UK centre for research on intelligence in crows and their kin that was due to…
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A fish that evolved to stand up on land went back to living in water
A fossil from 385 million years ago named Qikiqtania wakei shows that a descendant of early land animals lost its…
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Ear anatomy shows warm-blooded animals evolved 233 million years ago
Analysis of inner ear canals from hundreds of modern and fossil animals shows that warm-bloodedness appeared abruptly in the late…
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Global heating, human development could drive future waves of disease in east Asia
Global heating is leading dozens of bat species to migrate to southern China and southeast Asian countries, amid growing concerns…
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