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  1. Animals

    How to milk a naked mole-rat

    For the sake of science, Olav Oftedal has milked bats, bears and a lot of other mammals. But a naked mole-rat was something new.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Animals

    See-through shrimp flex invisible muscle

    Much of the body of a Pederson’s transparent shrimp looks like watery nothing, but it’s a superhero sort of nothing.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Animals

    Pelican spiders: slow, safe assassins

    Spiders, thank goodness, haven’t evolved assassin drones. But the specialized hunters of the family Archaeidae can kill at a distance.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Animals

    ‘Packrat’ is the new term for ‘really organized’

    The more eclectic hoarder species segregate pantry from lumber room from junk museum.