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1,544 results for: Vertebrates

  1. Paleontology

    Dinosaur handprints reveal birdlike arm anatomy

    Inward-facing palms evolved much earlier than previously recognized, a new study finds.

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  2. More science for science writers

    More dispatches from the 47th annual New Horizons in Science meeting, sponsored by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and held this year in Austin, Texas.

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  3. Life

    Early land arthropods sported shells

    Ancient ocean-dwelling arthropods may have worn shells to enable their transition to land.

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  4. Animals

    Fruity whiff may inspire new mosquito repellents

    Odors from ripening bananas can jam fruit flies’ and mosquitoes’ power to detect carbon dioxide, a new study finds.

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  5. Paleontology

    Ancient fish with killer bite

    Dunkleosteus clamped down on prey with three-quarters-of-a-ton bite force.

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  6. Paleontology

    Soft tissue from a dino fossil

    Researchers have uncovered soft tissue and fragments of several proteins from a hadrosaur.

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  7. Paleontology

    Dino feathers may have had earlier origin than thought

    Researchers report that newly described dinosaur fossils suggest an ancient origin of feathers.

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  8. Paleontology

    Flexible 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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  9. Animals

    Ants in the pants drive away birds

    Yellow crazy ants can get so annoying that birds don’t eat their normal fruits, a new study finds.

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  10. Plants

    Losing life’s variety

    2010 is the deadline set for reversing declines in biodiversity,  but little has been accomplished.

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  11. Animals

    SOS: Call the ants

    Emergency ant workers bite at snares, dig and tug to free trapped sisters

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  12. Life

    New stegosaur is quite a stretch

    A newly discovered stegosaur has neck proportions like those of sauropods.

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