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SpaceX Catches Starship Rocket Booster for the First Time Ever as it Returns to Earth After Launch

11 November 2024

Environmental solutions from the amazing world of fantastic fungi

12 August 2022

Butterflies just love ants ---.

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First known manta ray nursery in Florida and new species news!

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Leatherback logging in the Atlantic

featured Leatherback logging in the Atlantic

In the winter, leatherbacks leave the colder waters and migrate to the Caribbean, where the larger animals are easily seen in the breeding areas, near hopefully-protected beaches. This individual is...

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Swimming sloths with aquatic adaptations

Swimming sloths with aquatic adaptations

This brown throated sloth is not swimming but some of his distant ancestors may have done. This is one of the 4 species of 3-toed sloths remaining, Bradypus variegatus; Brown-throated...

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Fantastic ancient fauna precedes mammal evolution

Fantastic ancient fauna precedes mammal evolution

Animals such as beavers transform the environment of others, affecting both vegetation and their predators in any ecosystem, while influencing the lives of many smaller organisms; Beaver image; Credit: ©...

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Skin cancer selected our ancestors?

Skin cancer selected our ancestors?

In Ethiopia's Omo Valley, the Surma can paint themselves white, but albino Africans may give us clues about why it was so important for our first ancestors to adopt genes...

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The right whale, by satellite

The right whale, by satellite

Another population of southern right whales inhabit South African waters. This mother and calf are basking, just as those in the Argentinian Golfo Nuevo are; southern right whale image; Credit:...

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Hawaiian rise in endangered species

Hawaiian rise in endangered species

The beautiful and bountiful beaches of Hawaii Island (Big Island) overlie the unique laval flow habitats of one species, while the rest of the "Sandwich Islands" have made many endemics...

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Flores Human Dwarf Debate

Flores Human Dwarf Debate

And did those big feet in ancient time. The spectacular landscape of Flores may have accounted for the small size, and the shape of heads and feet of some close...

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Flying and genome size: it’s true about the reduction!

Flying and genome size: it’s true about the reduction!

The green violetear, Colibri thalassinus, is not only spectacular, but has beautifully-adapted even its genetics to accommodate better flight manoeuvrability; Colibri thalassinus image; Credit: © Shutterstock When the vertebrates fly,...

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Australian outback dingoed or natural ecosystem?

Australian outback dingoed or natural ecosystem?

The outback of Australia is now missing a vital ingredient that it now appears has maintained the delicate ecosystem for thousands of years, after humans destroyed the natural predators; Outback...

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How fish evolved their migratory habits

How fish evolved their migratory habits

In this research, the anchovy is not simply a pizza topping. These schools have been responsible for a lot of the evolutionary invention among the herring family as they moved...

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