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All kinds of tired
Donkeys sleep about three out of each 24 hours. Certain reef fish spend the night moving their fins as if swimming in their sleep. Some biologists argue that all animals sleep in some form or another. But identifying sleep can get complicated. Insects have brain architecture so different from humans’, for example, that electrophysiological recordings […]
- Ecosystems
Google works on a different web
Page ranking system inspires algorithm for predicting food webs’ vulnerability.
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Life from scratch
Relaunching biology from the beginning.
- Earth
Fossil of a walking seal found
A fossil skeleton discovered in the Canadian Arctic could represent a missing link in pinniped evolution.
- Health & Medicine
Genome 10K: A new ark
Featured blog: Researchers are working to catalog the DNA sequences of just about every vertebrate genus.
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Stomach’s Sweet Tooth
Turns out taste is not just for the tongue.
- Animals
SOS: Call the ants
Emergency ant workers bite at snares, dig and tug to free trapped sisters
- Life
It’s not their dirty mouths
Komodo dragons kill prey with venom, not oral bacteria, study suggests.
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Dressing up dinos
Adding soft tissue to bone helps scientists, paleoartists bring ancient creatures to life.
- Ecosystems
Exxon Valdez killed future for some killer whales
An Alaskan oil spill disrupted family structure in killer-whale groups, with lasting and dramatic repercussions.
- Earth
Exxon Valdez 20 Years Later
March 24 marked the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The effects are still obvious today. A series of blogs from senior editor Janet Raloff describes the continuing aftermath.
