The two-toed sloth genome provides some definitive answers

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Whale remains have accumulated in this Indian Ocean site for 5 million years

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Nutritional stress depresses an already threatened population

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It takes a large stomach and a slow metabolism

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DNA evidence points to environmental upheaval as a cause of their Late Pleistocene decline

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A new trick for Fido—finding spotted lanternfly eggs

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Another terrestrial organisms glows with UV light

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