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Biology

Dog Walker Treadmill

So you’re sittin around, knockin out some solid Skynyrd riffs in Guitar Hero II when the dog comes...

Biology

ScareCrow Sprinkler Deterrent: For Timid Beasts Only

Scare the bejeebers out of those pesky animals eating your plants or otherwise wreaking havoc in your yard...

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Robotic Roach Fools Real Ones, Teaches Them To Party Down

Europe, the same continent that produced conquistadors and the Inquisition, has now produced robotic cockroaches that scientists hope...

This 1921 image of a taxidermied Thylacine with a chicken in its mouth, was one widely distributed that may have contributed to the erroneous idea that it was a threat to livestock.
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We Were Wrong About How the Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Hunted Its Prey

A dramatic new interpretation of thylacine anatomy has discovered that the extinct Tasmanian tiger killed prey more like...

A common dolphin swimming near Port Fairy, Victoria in Australia,  southwest of where the H5N1-infected common dolphin was found in Goolwa.
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Australia Confirms Its First Known Bird Flu Death in a Dolphin

One longtime marine conservation scientist described the dolphin’s fatal infection with H5N1 bird flu as “shocking” and “very...

A team of researchers led a 24-day voyage on the Investigator vessel.
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Scientists Uncover Prehistoric Landscape Hidden Beneath the Great Barrier Reef

The submerged landscape was once home to First Nations people thousands of years ago.

The Western Desert covers an area of approximately 262,800 square miles (680,650 square kilometers).
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Evidence of Ancient Sharks Found Buried in the Egyptian Desert

A recent discovery of fossilized shark teeth points to at least seven extinct species that once lived in...

A close-up view of cowpea plants.
Biology

This Plant Summons Parasitic Wasps to Kill Its Enemies

New research shows how some plants recruit wasps and soil bacteria to keep their leaves safe from harm.

A head model of the ancient primate Australopithecus afarensis at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, which might belong with humans in genus Homo.
Biology

Bigfoot-Like Ancient Apes Might Have Been Closer to Humans Than We Realize

A new study has broken down all the ways that the old distinctions between the “Homo” in “Homo...

MIT researchers have engineered bacteria that can function as transistors, allowing them to create “living circuit boards” like those shown.
Biology

These Transistors Engineered With Bacteria Are Literally Alive, if a Little Slow

Life imitates tech, kind of.