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Male Great Bustards Eat Poison to Look Sexier for the Ladies
The toxic compound can kill mammals - including humans - but helps the birds rid themselves of pests
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These Extreme Desert Nomads Set Records for Migrating Birds
Australian banded stilts use mysterious cues to know when to head toward ephemeral lakes in the country’s otherwise dry interior
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The Potential Dark Side of Nobel-Winning LEDs: Pest Problems
The white lighting is clean and efficient but also a lot more attractive to flying invertebrates
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Five Surprises That Emerged From Monarch Butterfly Genomes
Sequencing 101 butterfly genomes has revealed a few of the monarch’s secrets, including some keys to its epic annual migration
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Cheetahs Spend 90 Percent of Their Days Sitting Around
When human presence forces cheetahs to expend more energy, however, it put the animals’ survival at risk
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Crabby Tenants Defend Corals From Marauding Predators
A diversity of coral guard-crabs is needed to fend off attacks by hungry snails and giant spiky sea stars
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Six Weird Ways Humans Are Altering the Planet
From deep holes to flying sheep, some signs of human activity might really perplex geologists in the far future
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Caterpillars Beware: Venom Won’t Protect You From Clueless Baby Birds
Young birds will dumbly peck at anything that crawls their way—even if it winds up teaching them a painful lesson
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A Blood-Sucking Foe Lurks in Central American Caves
Kissing bugs, which can spread Chagas disease, turned up positive for human blood meals in caves in Guatemala and Belize
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Meet the Mighty Spinosaurus, the First Dinosaur Adapted for Swimming
A mysterious mustachioed man helped paleontologists piece together the life story of the long-lost, semi-aquatic “Egyptian spine lizard”
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Fish Eat Mammals on the Regular
A new study indicates that in some ecosystems, mammals are a fairly normal foodstuff for fish
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Promiscuous Whales Make Good Use of Their Pelvises
Hips don’t lie: Whale pelvic bones are not vestigial but instead evolved to help the marine mammals maneuver better during sex
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This Project Wants to Compost People After They Die
A Seattle-based designer aims to introduce a sustainable way of disposing of bodies
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Friendly Neighborhood Spiders Get Bigger in Cities
A study of orb-weaving spiders in Australia shows a correlation between urbanization and fatter arachnids
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Thousands of Microbe Species Live in This Buried Antarctic Lake
Drilling through half a mile of ice let scientists uncover the first solid evidence of life in a subglacial lake
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Surprise! Science Shows That Elephant Poaching Is Unsustainable
For the first time, scientists have made a comprehensive tally of illegal killing rates across Africa
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Bizarre Blue Shark Nursery Found in the North Atlantic
Rather than emerging in protected coves, baby blue sharks spend their first years in a big patch of open ocean
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The Salmon Cannon Is One Way of Helping Fish Get Over a Dam
Making salmon and other fish momentarily airborne is an efficient way of allowing them to clear obstacles, some innovators think
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Eels Are Victims of Noise Pollution
Critically endangered European eels get distracted by man-made noise, making them more likely to get eaten by a predator
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Social Networking Prairie Dog Style
Prairie dog kisses might help spread the plague, and stopping the most promiscuous rodents could curb that disease’s reach
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