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Here’s how geckos (almost) walk on water
New high-speed video reveals how geckos use a hybrid walking-swimming gait in water to reach speeds similar to those on land.
By Laurel Hamers | 11:17am, December 06, 2018
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News in Brief | Animals
Pea aphid youngsters use piggyback rides to escape a crisis
By Susan Milius | 8:00pm, December 05, 2018
honeybees on a honeycomb
News | Animals
Rebel honeybee workers lay eggs when their queen is away
By Yao-Hua Law | 8:00am, December 04, 2018
deer
News | Animals
An acid found in soil may make a disease killing deer less infectious
By Jennifer Leman | 6:00am, November 30, 2018
jumping spider with babies
News | Animals
A jumping spider mom nurses her brood for weeks on milk
By Susan Milius | 4:03pm, November 29, 2018
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Feature | Animals
Beavers are engineering a new Alaskan tundra
By Sid Perkins | 9:00am, November 28, 2018
mosquito
News | Animals
Mosquitoes may surf winds above Africa more than we realized
By Susan Milius | 12:45pm, November 27, 2018
soprano Cristin Colvin performing
The Science Life | Animals
How locust ecology inspired an opera
By Susan Milius | 10:00am, November 26, 2018
comparison of newly discovered herbivore to modern-day elephant
Introducing | Animals
This huge plant eater thrived in the age of dinosaurs — but wasn’t one of them
By Laurel Hamers | 2:00pm, November 22, 2018
male flowers and bees
News | Animals
Hemp fields offer a late-season pollen source for stressed bees
By Susan Milius | 6:00am, November 19, 2018
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