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When filming for a 1924 silent Western was finished, the crew members abandoned several of their extras
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Why do we love what is rare and despise what is all around us?
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New research into a long-puzzling feature of avian life shows there's more to color than meets the eye
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The world's leading expert on bee behavior discovers the secrets of decision-making in a swarm
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A new study in pygmy hippos shows that males can influence the sex ratio of their offspring
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A newly identified brain circuit could be responsible for driving innate fear responses in many species
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A new crowd-sourced project aims to identify and evaluate pathways that connect bits of wildlife habitat
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With nothing but numbers, logic and some basic know-how, the inventor of the Turing Test explained how to make a stripe
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There are reasons to be very positive about this result, but also reasons to be very cautious
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A powerful magnetic field counteracted Earth's gravity and disrupted gene expression during development
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The sponge-like organisms date back to about 760 million years ago, extending the known time span of animals by 17 percent
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The giant oceanic birds are producing more and plumper chicks, at least for now
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Scientists use X-rays to classify different species, but when viewed outside the lab, the images provide stunning art
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The native people knew what orcas ate, how they hunted prey, how the prey responded to the whales and when and where predation occurred
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A study in birds confirms that protective caps on chromosomes predict a longer lifespan
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Why can some--but only some--bluetongue skinks eat a toad that is poisonous to eat or even lick?
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Tree killers and the first beds ever round up this month in wildlife news
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Breeders from 19 countries put their creations to the test at the 20th World Orchid Conference in Singapore
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When housed in an aquarium with a swirling robotic school, what determines whether a fish will join the crowd?
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What makes a snake stop squeezing? We do science to prove ourselves wrong, because the answer people predicted is not the correct answer
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