Animals
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Monkey minds, bug strength, and fish appetite -- watch and learn about about animals and science.
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These seals are mapping their changing habitat
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What makes fighting fish so feisty?
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This spider crawls like ant to avoid being eaten #science #mimicry
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Honey bees perfect their waggle dances by learning from elders
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The hormone that spreads love and helps fish share fear
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How lizards balance keeping their tails on and peeling them off
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Your dog’s breed doesn’t determine its personality, study suggests
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The precious genes of the world’s first cloned ferret could save her species
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As seed-hauling animals decline, some plants can’t keep up with climate change
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This drone has legs: Watch a flying robot perch on branches, catch a tennis ball in mid-air
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Snippet: Wild cockatoos make their own cutlery sets
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Baby bats babble, much like human infants
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Snippet: Female dragonflies wrestle away unwanted males
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Watch out, Olympic gymnasts: These squirrels have their own gold medal moves
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How life-span shifting insects are reshaping aging research
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Snippet: Octopuses, like humans, sleep in two stages
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Watch this rabbit walk on its "hands"
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Plumage and song split two nearly identical birds into different species
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Hungry teen dinosaurs crowded out their competitors
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Watch—and hear—the impact human noises have on marine life
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Naked mole-rat colonies have their own dialects—selected by their monarch
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These ‘beetlebots’ keep flying, even after crashing into poles
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Snippet: Giant hornets on the attack? Try a little water buffalo poop
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Even fruit flies succumb to cultural dating pressures
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Snippet: Neotropical singing mice
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Snippet: Sea otter rock smashing
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Snippet: Compilation of bird dance moves
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Snippet: Tiny worm makes one of the loudest sounds in the ocean
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Snippet: Bee grooming behaviors
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Snippet: This shark glows using a process previously unknown to science
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Snippet: Humpback whales sweep fish into their mouths
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Snippet: Watch the world’s loudest bird scream for a mate
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Snippet: Dogs hear words the same way we do
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Snippet: New video reveals how flies land upside-down
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Snippet: Dogs undergo fMRI to show off their numbers skills
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Snippet: Dancing chimpanzees may reveal how humans started to boogie
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These parrots are the first birds observed showing kindness to others
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Snippet: Watch a puffin use a tool—to scratch an itch
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Snippet: Seemingly longest organism ever recorded, other deep-sea species discovered
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Snippet: Male lemurs may spread fruity ‘love potions’ with their tails
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Like humans, these big-brained birds may owe their smarts to long childhoods
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Snippet: Dolphins learn unusual hunting behavior from their friends
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Snippet: Cat imitates human, in first scientific demonstration of behavior
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Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts. But is anyone brave enough to study them?
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Why bird brains are more brilliant than anyone suspected
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Speedy drones count Antarctic penguin colonies in record time
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Spooky ogre-faced spider's attack shows its ability to 'hear'
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Snippet: For aging male chimps, friendships are a calming force
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Snippet: Wacky tubemen scare dingoes away from livestock in Australia
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Snippet: Gray sharks get dinner by ‘bumming’ food from hard-hunting whitetips
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Snippet: New Zealand birds show humanlike ability to make predictions
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African killifish embryos enter suspended animation to survive
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Snippet: 3D imaging reveals the ancient lives of Egyptian animal mummies
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Animal and human studies reveal health impacts of social inequality
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What antlers can teach us about cancer and regrowing limbs
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Snippet: Aphids repair their home with their own bodily fluids
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These nematodes may be cannibals, but they look out for their family
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The nightmarish attack of a phantom midge larva
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Watch the world’s smallest bear copy its friends’ facial expressions
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How do you take a hamster's pulse?
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Snippet: Worms blob together, act as liquid or solid
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Sharpshooter insect pees faster than a cheetah accelerates
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Spider moms spotted nursing their offspring with milk
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Spider silk is five times stronger than steel—and now scientists know why
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Secrets of the feline tongue
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Orangutans are the only great apes—besides humans—to ‘talk’ about the past
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Snippet: Moose eating underwater
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Watch this eel inflate its head like a balloon
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These sluggish basking sharks break through the water as quickly as great whites
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How bighorn sheep use crowdsourcing to find food on the hoof
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Venoms to the rescue
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The trick to snagging a hummingbird chick? Good lighting
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Watch how battles with bats give moths such flashy tails
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The secret to the dragonfly’s backwards flight
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These frogs walk instead of hop
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Tiny shrimp may be mixing ocean water as much as the wind and waves
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Watch a ‘ballooning’ spider take flight
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Vulture safe zones aim to preserve an unloved but vital scavenger
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How one cell gives rise to an entire body
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Here’s what happens when you replace toads and turtles with 3D printed replicas in the wild
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Peregrine falcons maneuver best when dive-bombing at over 300 km/hr
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First footage of deep-sea anglerfish pair
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Meet “Chirocopter”: A drone that flies within swarms of bats
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Chimpanzees, bonobos use gestures that have the same meaning
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Watch this caterpillar fling its beetle attacker through the air
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Snippet: Watch a fish create sparks of light with its eyes
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Ants treat comrades injured on the field of battle
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Cockroach-inspired robots crashes into walls on purpose
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What makes hummingbirds such agile flyers?
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Snippet: Watch a juvenile little skate walk with tiny legs
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Are happy lab animals better for science?
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Bombardier beetle escapes from a toad’s stomach after launching a chemical attack
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Snippet: Dolphin superpod
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Meet the world’s first salad-eating shark
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Larva pressurizes its body for massive jumps
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How do ultrafast snapping shrimp close their claws so quickly?
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One of the loudest underwater sounds is made by an animal you wouldn’t expect
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Yuck! How birds share knowledge of disgusting foods—and help insects evolve
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XX Files : Animalia genitalia : Duck surprise [CLIP]
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How the clumsy Galapagos cormorant lost its flight
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How the clumsy Galapagos cormorant lost its flight
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How sponges ‘spike’ themselves with glass
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Snippet: Watch a bowhead whale rubbing against rocks to help shed its skin
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Pigeons sound a warning call—with their feathers
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Narwhal hearts beat slowly in panic, and that's probably not a good thing
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This baby hunter may be the world’s toughest snake
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Hubble in a bubble: Scallop eyes act like tiny telescopes
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Help track mosquitoes with your cellphone
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World's first images of dogs—and they're wearing leashes
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Sheep have advanced facial recognition abilities
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Snippet: Humpback whales crowd together for a new feeding strategy
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Spider genes put a new spin on arachnids’ potent venoms, stunning silks, and surprising history
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How sponges ‘spike’ themselves with glass
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Megarafting animals rode from Japan to US and Canada after the 2011 tsunami
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Giant wombatlike creatures migrated across Australia 300,000 years ago
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You don’t need a brain to sleep. Just ask jellyfish
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Remora-inspired bots hold tight on land and underwater
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Why don't barn owls lose their hearing?
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Why do bats crash into smooth surfaces? They never ‘see’ them
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Something is changing the sex of Costa Rican crocodiles
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New 3D scanning campaign will reveal 20,000 animals in stunning detail
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New polymer defeats sticky submarine creatures
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Insect anesthesia helps to expose bug guts while still alive
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The secret to a squid’s crystal clear underwater vision
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Coddled puppies make poor guide dogs
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Baby fish exercise
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Ungramatical bird sentences
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Can you tell how this frog is feeling just from his voice?
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The secret to a tuna’s sharp turns
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Giant blubbery elephant seals recognize their enemies' rhythms--and run
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What makes dogs so friendly? Study finds genetic link to super out-going people
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Ravens—like humans and apes—can plan for the future
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This spider looks (and walks) like an ant
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Cockatoos use tools to make music
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These mice are drinking light
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Every year, thousands of drowned wildebeest feed this African ecosystem
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Crazy-faced cats don’t win the adoption game
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Hunting for Ebola among the bats of the Congo
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Why whales grew to such monster sizes
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Tiny parrots reveal how dinosaurs may have learned to fly
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Orangutans nurse the longest of all mammals
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Cuttlefish really know how to fight for their gals, rare video shows
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Sacrifice of ancient horses gives clues to their domestication
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Baby whale whispers
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Ants rescue injured comrades from termite battles
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Rare footage of jaguar cubs is inspiring hope for Brazil’s endangered cat
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The badger that buried the cow
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The weird aerodynamics behind mosquito flight
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Can house mice help us figure out when people settled down?
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Bear cam footage shows bears eating, playing
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First genetically modified ant shows expanded sense of smell helped ants become social
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First footage of True's beaked whales underwater
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Tiny geo tags help map rare bird’s complete migration
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Bees have more brains than we bargained for
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Watch these daredevil birds dive into chimneys en masse
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The monkey in the mirror
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Brazilian Boa rediscovered
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Sticky frog tongues explained
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New robot flies just like a bat
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Video game shows how starling flocks protect themselves
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XX Files : Animalia genitalia : Patty Brennan
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XX Files : Animalia genitalia : My science is basic science [CLIP]
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XX Files : Animalia genitalia : Diversity in science [CLIP]
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Blind mouse navigates like a bat
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How an elephant's trunk can be so strong and so gentle
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Timing and energy are the secret to tail swatting
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Promising malaria vaccine disables key parasite genes
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Watch a moth drive a robot car
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Masses of insects on the move
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Ocelot message boards
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Parrot, check; goggles, check
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Watch a dolphin swim with a first-of-its-kind artificial fluke
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We Don't Know: Magnetoreception
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Ticklish rats help pinpoint 'tickle center' in the brain
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Sailfish ‘slasher film’ sheds light on evolution of group hunting
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Assassin bugs ambush spiders in their own webs
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Even without ears, jumping spiders can hear you
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Hints of tool use, culture seen in bumblebees
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Humans aren’t the only great apes that can ‘read minds’
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Stingrays chew their food—just like mammals
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‘Blindfolded’ ants reveal clues to insect navigation
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Your dog understands more than you think
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Zebra finch parents tell eggs: It's hot outside
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New spiky ants named after GoT dragons
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Ducklings capable of abstract thought
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These goats stare at men—when they want help
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Robotic ray is part animal, part machine
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Tadpoles hatch early to escape snakes
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The battle to save the red squirrel
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Jumping electric eels pack more zap
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Double domestication for dogs?
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How bees detect flowers' electric fields
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Spider silk's sticky glue does two jobs
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How dolphin moms reunite with their babies
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Lizards have REM sleep too
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Listen to the greatest hits from the biggest bat song library
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Why are lions smarter than tigers?
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Why fly when you can water ski?
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Flying snail wing pattern filmed for the first time
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Death-defying cockroaches help build better bots
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