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14 June 2023

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04 April 2018

Untamed Travel Possibilities for your imagination or your future plans.

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Sheep hunted before domestication in the Middle East.

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Piranha Pop

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Red-Belly Piranha (Pygocentrus nattereri) via Shutterstock Messrs Millot, Vandewalle and Parmentier took some piranhas to Liege and lost half of a finger. In the process, though, they managed to record...

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Bringing up (T. rex) Baby

Bringing up (T. rex) Baby

The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex via Shutterstock Five brave researchers have completed a computer analysis of Tyrannosaurus rex, looking especially at the implications for locomotion, ontogeny and growth. John...

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Birds like it sweet, bees like it sweeter

Birds like it sweet, bees like it sweeter

Bee collecting nectar via Shutterstock MIT mathematicians have something to say about the birds and the bees, but it has nothing to do with sex. Rather, they've taken a close...

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Jumping like a fish out of water

Jumping like a fish out of water

Mosquitofish jumping behavior captured by a high-speed camera in the lab © Northern Arizona University Prof. Alice Gibb watched the catch jump from the net back into the water. It...

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Largest ever butterfly map completed

Largest ever butterfly map completed

A new atlas - the most comprehensive ever published - of European butterfly distribution will be a vital tool in conserving these beautiful and fragile creatures its authors hope. Published...

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Tasmanian Devils fight hardest battle yet

Tasmanian Devils fight hardest battle yet

Given a ferociously funny second life as a cartoon character, one of Australia's most iconic animals the Tasmanian Devil could vanish in the next quarter of a century according to...

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Chick attacks highlighted in study on the Nazca booby

Chick attacks highlighted in study on the Nazca booby

Some birds give the Avian Class a bad name. While those cute little eagles or hissingly aggressive geese don't surprise us, this example of anthropomorphic behaviour could put the cat...

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