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Blind sea creature hunts with a light
The deep sea is a seriously dark place, so when a light shows up, even a tiny one, fish will swim up for a closer look. That seems to be the strategy behind the glowing red spots used by a relative of the jellyfish, called Erenna. Scientists have just discovered that these creatures have glowing red dots in their tentacles, which are probably used to lure fishy prey.
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Fluorescent bird poop haiku
Grass paths guide bluebirds. Fluorescent bird poop tells all. Corridor works, Yay! The fluorescent bird poop Haiku above, with its 5-7-5 syllable pattern, is almost as precisely structured as new research aimed at understanding how bluebirds move through grasslands and pine forest.
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Bird code: what chickadees are really saying to each other
When a tiny chickadee songbird spots an owl, hawk, or other predator perched nearby, it makes a warning call that sounds like its name ("chick-a-dee-dee-dee"). Other chickadees within earshot then swarm together and mob the predator, usually harassing it so that it flies away.
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Carrying stuff on your head in the Himalayas
If you think hiking for an afternoon is a lot of work, imagine hiking for a week while carrying a pack from your head that weighs almost as much as you do.
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Mucus balloons solve an ocean mystery
Some tadpole-sized ocean animals live in houses made of almost the very same stuff that leaks out of your nose when you have a cold. As researchers have just discovered, these mucus houses help solve the mystery of how creatures at the bottom of the ocean get enough food.
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How to tell if a dinosaur fossil is from a male or female
Scientists studying a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil have figured out that the dinosaur was a female. How could they tell just by looking at preserved bones?
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How Venus flytraps work
Without muscles to help them, some plants and fungi move rapidly to shake off predators, spread their seeds or slap pollen on visiting insects, and new research helps describe these quick moves.
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New monkey in Africa
Scientists have discovered a new kind of monkey living in the rainforests of the African country of Tanzania, called the "highland mangabey."
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Young canaries sing surprising songs
It's easy to get little kids to say something funny like "Big Bird is the President of the United States" because they don't know what the sentence means. They just repeat the sounds.
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Fish TV and a new way to swim
How do tiny sea creatures, many only one-tenth the size of a grain of rice, stay together to form the dense patches that whales and other creatures rely on for food? Why don't these crowded groupings of animals break up by sinking deep or floating to the surface?
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How an uninvited bird guest fools its hosts
When a female Horsfield's hawk-cuckoo lays an egg, she leaves it in the nest of other birds, where the chick will be raised by foster parents. Animals have many different strategies for survival, and the hawk-cuckoo chick's isn't particularly kind. It pushes the other baby birds out of the nest, so that it can receive all the attention from its foster parents.
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Taste test for ants
Scientists put a bunch of ants through a taste test. No. The scientists didn't taste the ants. The ants did the tasting. The ants wandered around an "ant cafeteria" where they could eat any of the natural or artificial sweet foods they wanted.
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Dinosaur eggs discovered inside mother
Scientists have discovered a dinosaur that died right before it laid two eggs. Finding dinosaur eggs inside the female, in almost the same position they were in when she died, might answer some tough questions about dinosaur egg-laying.
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How real Nemos find their way home
A coral reef is an extremely loud place. The sounds of snapping shrimp claws, grinding fish teeth and other fish noises can be heard from kilometers away.
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Termite-eating mammals lived with dinosaurs
When dinosaurs roamed the earth, termite-eating, chipmunk-sized, warm-blooded animals roamed as well, according to the scientists who report the discovery of the new termite-eater.
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A surprise inside a T. Rex fossil
When scientists looked inside the leg bone of a recently discovered Tyrannosaurus rex fossil, they found something they weren't expecting. Typically, only the hard parts of an animal, like the bones, are preserved as fossils. This T. rex fossil, however, contained some beautifully preserved soft tissue inside the bone, where the marrow once was.
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'Protein police' search your food
When you eat beans and rice, you make the "protein police" in your brain happy because you are eating a meal that supplies the ingredients your body needs to make proteins. These protein ingredients are called "amino acids."
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From wild boars to pigs
Imagine that Porky Pig has Italian cousins named "Paolo Pig" and "Piera Pig" who love both science and pig history.
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Deep-sea exploration to the 'Lost City'
Lost City isn't actually a city. It's an area at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean where giant towers made of glistening white minerals rise up to 200 feet off the seafloor.
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Cassini's visiting Saturn and it's going to stay awhile
It took the Cassini spacecraft seven years to get to Saturn. Now that it's arrived, it's going to settle in and make itself at home.
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Calling all cockroaches
Researchers have discovered a new way to trap cockroaches that could radically improve pest control.
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Too many deer in the forest
There are so many white-tailed deer in the eastern forests of North America that wild American ginseng and other forest-floor plants are in danger of going extinct, new research suggests.
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On real ant farms, the crop is in control
On an ant farm, who is the farmer and what is being raised for food?
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Burn extra calories without 'exercising'
It's no secret that physical activity and eating a balanced diet are important for maintaining your weight at a healthy level. So what counts as physical activity?
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Lion lifestyle logic
In the story of The Lion King, lion cub Simba learns about how everything lives together in a delicate balance called "the circle of life."
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