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Tennessee's Bats Are Getting Some Swanky New Digs
A pack of Tennessee bats are movin' on up in the world — the nonprofit conservation society The Nature Conservancy has built a man-made bat cave to give the animals a safe, clean home, in the hopes it...
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6 Reasons Why Evolution Isn't A Sure Thing
Former children's television host and scientist Bill Nye recently captured national media attention when he blasted Americans who believe in creationism and reject Darwin's theory of evolution. The...
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A Siberian Zoo Has One Of The Rarest Animals You'll Ever See: A 'Liliger'
This little cub is Kiara, and she's an ultra-rare "liliger," reports The Moscow Times. What exactly is a liliger? Well, her mother Zita is a liger (the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger),...
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Snakes And Spiders Are Taking Over Guam
The island nation of Guam is under attack from an alien species. Not that kind of alien, but the brown tree snake, which was introduced to the island 60 years ago. Since then, the snake population has...
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How A Cheetah Gets Its Stripes
From where does a tabby cat get its stripes? The same place cheetahs get their spots. A new study finds the same gene that is responsible for the cheetah's color patterns causes a tabby's stripes....
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New iPad App Lets You Play With Einstein's Brain
Ever wondered what the brain of science's pop icon Albert Einstein looks like? Well, wait no longer. A huge collection of images of his brain and its structures has been digitized, and they are now...
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The Stink Bugs Are Coming
An invading force is laying the groundwork for a coup in the United States this year, and it's going on right under our noses. The brown marmorated stink bug, an insect species from Asia that has been...
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An Eyeless Spider Shuts Down $15 Million Highway Project
A rare, eyeless spider has indefinitely halted construction on $15 million highway project in San Antonio, Texas, Casey Stegall of Fox News reports. The endangered Braken Bat Cave Meshweaver spider...
View ArticleResearcher Apologizes For Not Discovering Cool New Species Of Dinosaur Sooner
Two-hundred million years ago, a house-cat-size dinosaur that nibbled on plants roamed among Earth's mightiest carnivores. The tiny dinosaur, called Pegomastax africanus, was recently identified by...
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This Snake's Deadly Venom Is A Better Painkiller Than Morphine
The deadly venom of the black mamba contains a painkiller as powerful as morphine, without most of the side effects, James Gallagher of BBC reports. French scientists found that the venom, which black...
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110-Million-Year-Old Spider Attack Preserved In Amber Is Unprecedented
The image above depicts a spider about to chow down on a male wasp. It's the "only fossil ever discovered of a spider attack on prey caught in its web," according to researchers at Oregon State...
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These Are The Five Worst Sounds On Earth
The ear-splitting screech of a knife on a glass bottle has been identified as the worst sound to the human ear by scientists who studied the brain's response to unpleasant noises. People who listened...
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Amazing Photos Of A Colossal Whale Chewed Up By Great White Sharks
Even nature's marine giants have to be weary of the Great White shark's predatory power. On Monday, the carcass of a 50-foot Southern right whale washed up on a beach near Cape Town, South Africa,...
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New DNA Study Crushes The Hope Of A Real Life Jurassic Park
In August, Clive Palmer, an insanely rich and slightly crazy Australian mining magnate, announced he wanted to build a real life Jurassic Park. Sadly, news out today in the journal Proceedings of the...
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Chimps Are Reportedly Killing People In The Congo
Several reports of chimpanzees attacking humans in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been surfacing in recent months and years, New Scientist reports. The attacks have taken the life of at...
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An Eye The Size Of A Softball Washed Up In Florida
A giant eyeball from an unknown creature has washed up on a beach in Pompano Beach, Florida, Alan Boyle of NBCNews.com reports. The eyeball is about the size of a softball and was found by an...
View ArticleChinese Zookeepers Dress Up In Silly Panda Suits
At the Wolong Panda Reserve in China, the zoologists and keepers have to wear special costumes when dealing with the animals to try and make the pandas feel at home and to limit their interactions...
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Humans Used To Eat Panda Bears
Pandas are unequivocally cute, and at one time, apparently savored by human taste buds. Chinese scientists Wei Gunagbio says excavated panda fossils show that humans used to hunt the fuzzy creatures...
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New Species Of Daddy Long Legs Has A Foot-Wide Leg Span
An enormous, new, leggy arachnid with a leg span is just over 13 inches (33 centimeters) has been found lurking in the caves of the Southeast Asian nation of Laos. The creature is a type of...
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The Future Of Tasty Beer Lies In The Barley Genome
Next time you sit down with a frosty brew, remember the humble barley plant. Researchers have just decoded the plant's genome, which could lead to tastier beers and make the crop more resistant to...
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