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LifeClimate changes, and there goes the neighborhood
The ranges of rattlesnakes and voles are likely to shift drastically with warming, analyses of past changes suggest.
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LifeBig reveals for genome of tiny animal
Tunicates’ scrambled gene order suggests that arrangement may not matter for vertebrate body plan and hints at the origins of mysterious DNA chunks called introns.
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LifeRobins reject red glowing grub
Parasitic worms induce a color change in their caterpillar victims that's literally repulsive to predators.
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LifePacking away the poison
A genetic adaptation in a Hudson River fish species allows it to simply store toxic pollutants in its fat.
By Janet Raloff -
LifeHagfish may eat through their skin
The odd dining habits of carrion-eating protovertebrates may be relevant to the evolutionary transition to land.
By Susan Milius -
PaleontologySupersized superbunny
Fossils reveal a non-hopping giant rabbit that lived on the island of Minorca 5 million years ago.
By Susan Milius -
LifeLife
Salamander's algal partners, tool-using capuchins, a beneficial bacterial infection and more in this week's news
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LifeDangerous dinos came out after dark
Predatory dinosaurs probably stalked the night, scientists say.
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LifeHummingbird pulls Top Gun stunts
Male hummingbirds set record for extreme plunges out of the sky.
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PaleontologyBird in the hand
Fossilized fingers strengthen evolutionary link between dinosaurs and avian relatives.
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PaleontologyFlexible molars made chewing champions out of duck-billed dinosaurs
Tiny scratches in the fossilized teeth of Edmontosaurus suggest what these large herbivores ate and how they ate it.
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AnimalsTurtles make sense after all
The odd bodies of turtles add a wrinkle to standard land-dwelling vertebrates.
By Susan Milius