Animals

  1. Animals

    Dung beetles steer by the Milky Way

    The insects orient themselves using starlight, researchers find in planetarium experiments.

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  2. Animals

    Finally, the truth about barnacle sex is revealed

    A genetic analysis shows that the sessile crustaceans can broadcast sperm in water, contrary to previous assumptions.

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  3. Animals

    Integrative and Comparative Biology

    The hormonal roller coaster that is male pipefish pregancy and collision safety features for flying insects.

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  4. Animals

    Claims of fairness in apes have critics crying foul

    A report that chimps divvy up rewards much as people do draws criticism.

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  5. Science & Society

    Insect illustrator

    Taina Litwak is an “art department of one” in D.C. for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Systematic Entomology Laboratory.

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  6. Animals

    Early arthropod had a fancy brain

    A 520-million-year-old fossil of a segmented animal shows that sophisticated central nervous systems are surprisingly ancient.

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  7. Microbes

    Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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  8. Animals

    Right eye required for finding Mrs. Right

    Finches flirt unwisely if they can only use their left eyes.

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  9. Animals

    Face Smarts

    Macaques, sheep and even wasps may join people as masters at facial recognition.

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  10. Animals

    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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  11. Animals

    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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  12. Animals

    Shark

    A Visual History by Richard Ellis.

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