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Fat Balls for Birds: Winter Kindness or Controversy?
Above her, a robin pauses on a leafless branch, fluffed up like a small ember against the grey sky. In…
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The first night, he barked at the fridge. The children cried in their bedrooms, the neighbours thumped on the…
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You have brought a cat home, and they are looking at you as though you are the intern. You may…
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The New Civic Obedience Test for Dogs: What 1 March Means
Her hands clamp so tightly around the lead that her knuckles have turned white. By her shoes, a young border…
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Can Licking the Colorado River Toad Cause Hallucinations?
The legend that licking a toad causes hallucinations stems from a real fact, but it conceals a serious danger.
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Why the Komodo Dragon Bite Is Not Just About Bacteria
For decades, the explanation seemed settled: the Komodo dragon killed because its mouth contained an…
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The Immortal Jellyfish: How Turritopsis dohrnii Becomes Young Again
When it is injured, hungry or under threat, a tiny jellyfish does more than try to survive. It dismantles its…
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Campbell Island Sheep: How 4,000 Abandoned Animals Changed an Ecosystem
When a sheep farm failed on remote Campbell Island, New Zealand, around 4,000 sheep were left behind. The…
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How Formosa Wind Farm Turned the Taiwan Strait into a Marine Haven
The installation of metal structures in the ocean has turned a formerly barren area of the Taiwan Strait into…
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The pangolin is a mammal found in Africa and Asia that stands out because of its unusual appearance. Covered…
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Study Links Great Dying Marine Extinction to Warming and Low Oxygen
For the first 280 million years of animal life on Earth, seabed ecosystems were ruled by slow-moving…
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1800 K LEDs Could Help Protect Insects From Artificial Light at Night
Around 40 percent of the world’s insect species could face extinction over the next few decades, largely as a…
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How Black Bass Became a Major Threat to Japan’s Lakes
The introduction of exotic fish into vulnerable ecosystems has had severe consequences in Japan. Black bass…
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Andean Leaf-Eared Mice on Llullaillaco Live at 6,739 Metres
On the summit of frozen volcanoes, where a person could scarcely endure for more than a few hours, tiny mice…
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Thalassodoron bathyale copepod discovery creates the Thalassodoridae family
Exploration of the ocean depths has delivered an extraordinary surprise for German researchers near Greenland.
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How Dogs Benefit From Interaction With Other Dogs
Dogs can benefit from brief, positive meetings with other sociable animals, provided the contact is introduced…
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Scientists Discover Vast Fish Nest Colony in the Weddell Sea
In 2017, the enormous iceberg known as A-68 broke away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf, offering scientists a rare…
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Rhino Calf Surprises Ten Lions on a Road in South Africa
A rhino calf startled a group of lions by making its way along a road in a South African reserve.
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Vampire Squid: The Mysterious Creature of the Deep Sea
Its scientific name translates as “vampire squid from hell”, yet almost every part of that description is…
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Platypus: the extraordinary egg-laying mammal
With a duck-like bill, a tail resembling a beaver’s and an otter-like body built for water, the platypus looks…
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Wels catfish in the Ebro river: the invasive species introduced in 1974
The wels catfish, a fish of the species Silurus glanis, was deliberately introduced into the Ebro river basin…