Animals

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  1. Health & Medicine

    A second version of bird flu is infecting cows. What does that mean?

    While the risk to humans of exposure from cows or milk remains low, this new flu spillover from birds into cows raises the need for continued surveillance.

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  2. Animals

    How mantis shrimp deliver punishing blows without hurting themselves

    A mantis shrimp's punch creates high-energy waves. Its exoskeleton is designed to absorb that energy, preventing cracking and tissue damage.

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  3. Ecosystems

    Extinct moa ate purple trufflelike fungi, fossil bird droppings reveal

    DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

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  4. Science & Society

    Will the Endangered Species Act survive Trump?

    President Trump has already begun to introduce changes that weaken the Endangered Species Act, a cornerstone of U.S. conservation law.

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  5. Life

    A new book explores the evolutionary romance between plants and animals

    Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.

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  6. Animals

    Hotter cities? Here come the rats

    Well, rats. A study of 16 cities shows that higher ambient temperatures and loss of green space are associated with increasing rodent complaints.

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  7. Animals

    Wild baboons don’t recognize themselves in a mirror

    In a lab test, chimps and orangutans can recognize their own reflection. But in the wild, baboons seemingly can’t do the same.

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  8. Animals

    Feeding sharks ‘junk food’ takes a toll on their health

    Many blacktip reef sharks in French Polynesia are commonly fed by tourists. But the low-quality diet is changing the sharks’ behavior and physiology.

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  9. Life

    This drawing is the oldest known sketch of an insect brain

    Found in a roughly 350-year-old manuscript by Dutch biologist Johannes Swammerdam, the scientific illustration shows the brain of a honeybee drone.

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