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Wild Things: Tarantulas, Jellyfish and More…
Hummingbirds, attacking bears, ancient hominids and other news updates in wildlife research
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The Vine With Its Own Bat Signal
Specially shaped leaves lure the flying mammals. The bats get a meal, and the flowers get pollinated
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The Intriguing, Frustrating Camposaurus
Paleontologists have reexamined the paltry bones and affirmed that the creature is an important link to the early days of theropod dinosaurs
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Tendaguru’s Lost World
The African fossil sites preserve dinosaur fossils that are strangely similar to their North American counterparts
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How To Study A Volcano
Getting this close to a bubbling cauldron of lava is not just dangerous; it’s stupid enough that even other volcanologists will yell at you
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Dinosaur Sighting: Wall Drug
The ultimate roadside attraction features a T. rex that shakes its head, snaps its jaws and RAWRs
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14 Not-So-Fun Facts About Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes are attracted to the carbon dioxide, lactic acid and octenol found in our breath and sweat. They may have a preference for beer drinkers
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Barnum Brown’s Paleo Pick
Does “Mr. Bones” really deserve credit for inventing an essential field tool?
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What To Name Pluto’s New Moon
Disney characters aside, what would you choose to join this dark and dreary mythological circle? Styx, Erberus, Cerberus, Hypnos?
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Diamonds Hold Secret About Plate Tectonics
When it comes to diamonds in jewelry, perfection is everything. But imperfections are a clue to the past
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Taking a Bite Out of a Sauropod Tail
The tail vertebra has gouges, divots and scores in five places from at least two different predators
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What Preys on Humans?
Most of us never come in contact with a deadly predator, but there are still enough encounters to remind us that humans are not the top of the food web
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Acristavus: North America’s New Hadrosaur
Dinosaurs with weird structures such as sails and arrays of horns often make the news, but in this case, the lack of specialized structures is important
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South America’s First Dinosaur Tracks
Tracks now readily recognizable as belonging to dinosaurs were once attributed to prodigious birds and other creatures
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Where the Pacific’s Predators Go
Scientists have found that predator species trade off between prey availability and water temperature in their travels
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Solenodons: No Bark But Plenty of Venomous Bite
Solenodons are unusual predators; they are among the few venomous mammals
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Dinosaur Sighting: Crocosaurus
It looks more like an alligator doing a dinosaur impression, but there is something unmistakably dinosaurian about it
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Wyoming Paleontology Dispatch #3: How to date a fossil
The Bighorn Basin’s colorful stripes reveal an ancient riverbed
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Los Angeles’ New Dinosaur Hall
Buzz about the new displays, particularly a trio of Tyrannosaurus growth stages, has been growing for months
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The Vanishing Cats
In a recent bit of good news, snow leopards have been spotted at 16 camera traps in northeastern Afghanistan
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