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Gigantic School of Sardines 'Dance' for Divers (Video)
The ocean holds no shortage of strange and beautiful creatures, from the colorful animals that dwell in the shallowest tide-pools to the alien-looking species that lurk in the shadowy depths -- and,...
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With a Super Green Noah's Ark Theme Park, Conservative Christians Embrace...
Conservative religion and environmentalism are often seen as mutually exclusive. They're filed
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Biologists Discover That Some Ants Eventually Retire
Many adjectives come to mind when thinking about ants, but 'idle' likely isn't among them. But recently biologists discovered that after a lifetime of service in their namesake occupation, older...
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Trees Use Roots to Fight Off Other Trees, Says Study
There's nothing quite as relaxing as a nap in the shade of a majestic old tree, or strolling down some quiet forest path flanked by towering columns of wood and bark. But while all may appear tranquil...
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Planetary Survivors: See The World Through Cockroach Eyes at The Science Museum
Well this is an entertaining idea. The Science Museum in London is offering tours of their climate, energy and space galleries from the perspective of a cockroach - costume and all!
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Does a dung beetle find love easier than us? From the humblest worm to the majestic blue whale, creatures large and small have spent hundreds of millions of years conceiving a variety of ways to...
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10 Animal Courtship Rituals a Guy Could Learn From (Slideshow)
Does a dung beetle find love easier than us? From the humblest worm to the majestic blue whale, creatures large and small have spent hundreds of millions of years conceiving a variety of ways to...
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Big Squirreltail Evolves to Fight Off Fiery, Invasive Cheatgrass
Nicknaming plants. Now there's a good job to have. The invasive plant in this tale, called "cheatgrass," is being fought off by a native
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Island's Invasive "Killing Machine" Finally Captured
The tiny island of Kapiti, located five miles off the coast of Wellington, New Zealand, is one of the last refuges for a menagerie of wildlife driven to near-extinction elsewhere by invasive species....
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Earth Will be "Unrecognizable" by 2050
A lot has changed in the last 40 years, hasn't it? From the rise of personal computers and the Internet, to tubeless toilet-paper and carnivorous clocks -- the world today hardly resembles the one...
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Years After Mating, Stingrays Finally Give Birth (Video)
The marine biologists at Australia's Oceanworld Manly aquarium may be well-versed in the facts of life, but it's never too late to learn a bit more about how exactly babies are made. Recently, twelve...
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Chinese Army to Enlist 10,000 Pigeons, Just in Case
From their humble beginnings along the rocky cliff sides of Africa and Asia some 20 million years ago, pigeons can now by found pretty much anywhere there´s a statue being erected or sandwich being...
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Men and Women are Different, Even If Doing the Same Job
News Flash! Men and Women are different. OK, have a chuckle, we know there are plenty of studies that prove men are from Mars and women from Venus. And just as many policy papers
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Human Activity is Causing Wildlife to Shrink
In a world increasingly dominated by humans, it seems there's less and less room for just about everything else -- so to cope, animals and plants across the globe are gradually getting smaller. For...
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1 in 8 People That Have Ever Lived Are Alive Today
Earth is in the midst of a population crisis, and extremes are heading in both directions. While countless species have seen their numbers plummet in recent decades, with more than a few going extinct...
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Hubble Hits a Milestone - NASA Celebrates Millionth Space Observation
If good design means longevity, Hubble is well on its way to redeeming the missteps that required high-tech space missions for vision correction before it could serve its purpose. Could it be a...
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Species Placed in Simulator of Earth's Future Climate
If the projections of countless scientists are correct, the climate of this planet will be markedly different by the end of this century -- but for a group of plants and animals, that future is now. A...
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Tiny Snails Live On After Being Eaten By Birds
Photo: iJammin / cc In nature, survival of the fittest usually means being fast or stealthy enough to avoid getting eaten -- but with those two options off the table, one species of tiny snail has...
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Largest Mass of Water Discovered
Astronomers have discovered the largest mass of water known to exist. So we humans can go right on mucking up our frail planet's meager reserves of fresh water, we know where to find plenty more? But...
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Scientist Seals Himself in Box to Prove Importance of Plants
Gasp: what some people will do in the name of science. Dr. Iain Stewart, a famous geologist, is going to be sealed into an air-tight lucite box for 48 hours.
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