Hidden genetic diversity may have given it an advantage

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The ocean giants deploy tiny solutions to counteract their own buoyancy

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The volatile compound they emit induces temporary infertility in other females

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It’s a harrowing tale of deadly winters in Berlin captivity

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3-D avatars of macaques fool their flesh-and-blood counterparts—up to point

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It’s one of only a handful of new monkey species identified on the continent in the last 75 years

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They’re evolving faster than we can stop them

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The first animals onto terra firma weren’t amphibians as previously suspected

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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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