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Long live the queen bee

featured Long live the queen bee

Honey bee on a flower via Shutterstock Colony collapse disorder or CCD has been under intense scrutiny over the last 5 years. CCD is the disappearance of bees from a...

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Grey seals have real personality

Grey seals have real personality

Grey seals via Shutterstock Grey seals have different personalities that dictate how they nurture and protect their young, a study reveals for the first time. Mother seals in Scotland choose...

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Horses look back

Horses look back

Przewalski horse via Shutterstock Przewalski's horse represents the only physical link to ancestral horses, but after the dog, the boar and many ovines and bovines came the horse. We domesticated...

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Guppies have evolved to stay the same

Guppies have evolved to stay the same

Guppy Evolution; Credit: Greg Grether / University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Guppies have been evolving for at least half a million years and yet there is one characteristic of...

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A high-speed camera reveals the secrets of a leaping frog

A high-speed camera reveals the secrets of a leaping frog

High-speed camera reveals the secrets of a leaping frog; Credit: Mike Cohea/Brown University Although traditionally tendons were seen as simple connective tissue, linking muscle and bone, it has been known...

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Mystery of Antarctica's Gamburtsev Mountain Range solved

Mystery of Antarctica's Gamburtsev Mountain Range solved

Researchers have probed the depths under Antarctic ice to reveal a map of the Gamburtsev Mountains (see inset to the right); Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation, Gamburtsev topography by...

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A new weapon against invasive species

A new weapon against invasive species

Palm Trees via Shutterstock If you have ever volunteered in a wilderness park - as I have, you probably have come across the debate on invasive alien species (usually abbreviated,...

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Eleven new bee species

Eleven new bee species

Lasioglossum sp. (Sweat Bee) in the bosom of a buttercup via via Shutterstock Cornell University may soon be famous for the newly named Gotham bee, Lasioglossum gothami. Jason Gibbs, a...

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Orang-utan killing in Kalimantan

Orang-utan killing in Kalimantan

Mother and baby orangutan in Borneo via Shutterstock Indonesian, Malaysian and Australian researchers, led by Erik Meijaard, have produced a shocking result from an analysis of human/orang-utan conflict in Kalimantan,...

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