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Monkeys May Tune In to Basic Melodies
Simple tunes prove as memorable to rhesus monkeys as they do to people.
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EarthLarge lake floods scoured New Zealand
A volcanic region of New Zealand’s North Island experienced immense floods and severe erosion when lakes filling the craters of dormant volcanoes burst through the craters' rims and poured down the slopes.
By Sid Perkins -
PaleontologyA human migration fueled by dung?
When people made their way from Asia to the Americas, the path they took may have been covered in dung.
By Sid Perkins -
EarthFor European lakes, how clean is clean enough?
New research on lakes in Denmark suggests that agriculture has been affecting water quality there for more than 5,000 years.