Animals

  1. Animals

    Dead, live guppies vie for paternity

    Females can use sperm months after mates go belly up.

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  2. Animals

    Frog long thought extinct rediscovered in Israel

    Hula painted frog turns out to be the only surviving member of an extinct genus.

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  3. Animals

    Two books explore the weirdest life on Earth

    Zombie Birds, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals by Becky Crew and Weird Life by David Toomey.

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  4. Animals

    How roaches developed disgust at first bite

    A change in taste cells makes glucose-baited traps repellent.

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  5. Psychology

    Dog sniffs out grammar

    After years of word training, a canine intuitively figures out how simple sentences work.

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  6. Animals

    Embracing the swarm

    Entomologist Michael Raupp is enjoying Swarmageddon. The giant batch of cicadas began emerging from the ground in late April and will be heard in some northeastern states through June.

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  7. Animals

    Malaria parasite drives mosquitoes to human scent

    Compared to uninfected insects, ones carrying disease land more often on sweat-soaked stockings.

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  8. Animals

    Tamed fox shows domestication’s effects on the brain

    Gene activity changes accompany doglike behavior in foxes bred over more than 50 years.

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  9. Animals

    The secret behind the alligator’s toothy smile

    Dental stem cells enable the reptile to grow new teeth every year, researchers find.

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  10. Animals

    Cannibalistic spiders may just be choosy guys

    Male Micaria sociabilis may choose to have older female for lunch, not sex.

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  11. Animals

    Malaria mosquito dosed with disease-fighting bacteria

    After thousands of tries, lab gets parasite-carrying insect to catch Wolbachia.

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  12. Animals

    Tongue bristles help bats lap up nectar

    High-speed videos capture stretched-out tongue bumps that stretch out so nectar-feeding bats can slurp up their food.

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