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SpaceX Catches Starship Rocket Booster for the First Time Ever as it Returns to Earth After Launch

11 November 2024

Environmental solutions from the amazing world of fantastic fungi

12 August 2022

Butterflies just love ants ---.

12 September 2018

First known manta ray nursery in Florida and new species news!

20 June 2018

Models and mimics are marvels in SE Asia

02 May 2018

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Humans were rare, once

featured Humans were rare, once

How interesting to think that a little girl's finger has been able to reproduce the whole genetic complement of a fascinating and previously unknown group of human relatives. What reasons...

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Your ancestor was a little therian

Your ancestor was a little therian

The mammalian carnivores would have evolved on a fast-track if the herbivores and insectivores could take advantage of a flower bonanza in the late Cretaceous This is a diprotodont marsupial-lion...

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The Earth gets oxygen early

The Earth gets oxygen early

This picture takes us forward from 3 billion years ago to the early Cambrian, 500 mya, when animal life really started eating up the plant life and taking advantage of...

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Oh Sole Mio! (solar ship is home, almost)

Oh Sole Mio! (solar ship is home, almost)

The TÃ »ranor PlanetSolar (see The Lord of the Rings for the name) is seen here in its native shipyard in 2010; Turanor Image; Credit: Dr. Karl-Heinz Hochhaus within Wikimedia...

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Bats and dolphins have a similar genetic heritage

Bats and dolphins have a similar genetic heritage

The flying fox (Pteropus sp.) and the swimming dolphin(Tursiops truncatus) have the same approach to their ultrasonics, with similar genes to promote their efficiency. The remarkable thing is that our...

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To fish or not to fish

To fish or not to fish

One of the bottom-living fish disturbed by trawling is the plaice, a flatfish, Pleuronectes platessa; Plaice Image; Credit: © Shutterstock When a trawler trundles its fishing gear along the bottom,...

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Is there Martian life on Earth?

Is there Martian life on Earth?

However this Martian moon of Phobos was formed, a smaller version of it could have left the red planet and brought life to Earth billions of years ago! phobos image;...

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Honeyguide selection by interference competition

Honeyguide selection by interference competition

Bee-eater chicks, hosts to the honeyguide brood-parasite; Credit: © Claire Spottiswoode / Biology Letters The honeyguide is a cuckoo. Not officially, as they are related to woodpeckers, but in the...

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California spirit dreams of ancient language

California spirit dreams of ancient language

The California coast at Big Sur is sparsely populated by Kerouac look-alikes nowadays, but the early inhabitants might have found its rich marine and coastal ecology very much to their...

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Niches and speciation in orca

Niches and speciation in orca

This pod of orcas off a Norwegian fjord would be expected to be fish-eaters, but could well be able to catch seals too, depending on their experience, especially matrilineal learning...

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