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- Animals
Gator Aids: Gators squish lungs around to dive and roll
Alligator researchers say they have discovered a new role for lungs as maneuvering aids under water.
- Materials Science
Squid beaks are hardly soft
Water softens squid beaks toward their base, so they don't cut into the squid's own soft tissue.
- Earth
Refuge for the resilient
Some conservationists recommend creating marine parks in areas most likely to survive climate change.
- Animals
Antibiotic Alligator: Promising proteins lurk in reptile blood
Scientists are zeroing in on alligator blood proteins that show promise for fighting disease-causing microbes.
- Life
Elephant kin liked the water
Moeritherium, ancient relatives of modern elephants, may have spent much of their time in lakes, rivers or swamps.
- Ecosystems
Eight-legged bags of poison
Birds eating arachnids get high dose of toxic metal as mercury climbs up the food chain.
- Humans
Bear deadline
Court calls for the already overdue decision on listing polar bears as a threatened species.
- Earth
It’s the meat not the miles
Eating less red meat and dairy may do more to reduce food-associated greenhouse gas emissions than shopping locally.
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- Life
Coral keeps it in the family
The nutrients released during mass coral spawning feed the whole ecosystem.
- Animals
Polar bears listed
Polar bear declared "threatened," but Secretary limits decision's impact.
- Animals
Wild innovation
Researchers have published a rare description of a wild chimpanzee devising and modifying a novel form of tool use.
