Animals
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Face Smarts
Macaques, sheep and even wasps may join people as masters at facial recognition.
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Epidemic of skin lesions reported in reef fish
A British-Australian research team has just found coral trout living on the south side of the Great Barrier Reef sporting dark skin raised, scablike, brown-black growths. Although the authors believe they’ve stumbled onto an epidemic of melanoma — a type of skin cancer — other experts have their doubts. Strong ones.
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Tiny creature, giant sperm
Giant sperm appear in various other species, including some flatworms, beetles and a fruit fly species, Drosophila bifurca, with sperm nearly 6 centimeters long.
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Climate adaptation may be a family affair
Newborn coral reef fish can cope with changed water conditions if their parents have already adjusted.
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Mosquitoes Remade
Scientists reinvent agents of illness to become allies in fight against disease.
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Dinosaur debate gets cooking
A key piece of evidence for cold-blooded dinosaurs, growth lines in bones, has also been discovered in a set of warm-blooded animals.
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Mr. Hornaday’s War
How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World by Stefan Bechtel.
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Animals on the Move
Worldwide — on land, in the sea and in rivers, streams and lakes — wildlife is responding to rising temperatures.
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How a mosquito survives a raindrop hit
Lightweight insects can ride a water droplet, as long as they separate from it before hitting the ground.
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Bat killer hits endangered grays
The news on white-nose syndrome just keeps spiraling downward. The fungal infection, which first emerged six years ago, has now been confirmed in a seventh species of North American bats — the largely cave-dwelling grays (Myotis grisecens). The latest victims were struck while hibernating this past winter in two Tennessee counties.
