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Here’s Scientific Proof Your Cat Will Eat Almost Anything
Don’t let their fluff fool you: Your cat was built for murder. Felines, no matter how chonky, eepy, or boopable,…
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Why Scientists Are Bugging the Rainforest
Bioacoustics can’t fully replace ecology fieldwork, but can provide reams of data that would be extremely expensive to collect by…
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The World’s Largest—and Stinkiest—Flower Is in Danger of Extinction
This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Parasitic, elusive, and emitting an…
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Florida’s War With Invasive Pythons Has a New Twist
That has created a problem. Around 2010, soon after meeting this big, new predator that could outcompete and eat them,…
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Wild donkeys are pioneering Ukraine’s ecological restoration
War, unsurprisingly, has made conservation a lot more difficult. Oleg Dyakov, a rewilding officer from Rewilding Ukraine’s headquarters in Odesa…
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The Snow Crab Disappears | WIRED
Michael Litzow, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s shellfish assessment program, told me: “If we lose ice, we…
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Many metaphors of metamorphosis
As far as metaphors for change go, this is a powerful one. However, when we think about the future and…
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Conservation goal ’30×30′ divides and inspires at COP15
But others question the mentality of those trying to enforce it — even if it looks good on paper. Lakpa…
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Scientists reconsider why zebra stripes mysteriously repel flies
For the current study, Tombak, then a PhD student at Princeton, and her team wanted to test the width of…
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A long-lost rare crayfish comes back to life in an Alabama cave
Historically, Shelta Cave was one of the most diverse cave systems in the eastern United States. Long before Niemiller and…
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