Biodiversity

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What Is Environmental DNA and How It Maps Ocean Life Science

What Is Environmental DNA and How It Maps Ocean Life

Environmental DNA, or eDNA, lets scientists identify marine species from a simple water sample. This non-invasive method is transforming how researche...

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How Sperm Whale Heads Work—and Why They're Extraordinary Science

How Sperm Whale Heads Work—and Why They're Extraordinary

The sperm whale's enormous head is a biological marvel housing the spermaceti organ, which powers echolocation, aids deep diving, and may serve as a b...

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Which Animals Use Tools—and What It Reveals Science

Which Animals Use Tools—and What It Reveals

Tool use was once considered uniquely human. Scientists now document it across mammals, birds, fish, and even invertebrates—reshaping our understandin...

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Scientists Find New Branch of Life in Deep Pacific Science

Scientists Find New Branch of Life in Deep Pacific

An international team of 16 experts has described 24 new amphipod species in the Pacific's Clarion-Clipperton Zone, including an entirely new superfam...

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How Alcohol Hides in Flower Nectar—and Why Animals Drink It Science

How Alcohol Hides in Flower Nectar—and Why Animals Drink It

Flower nectar routinely contains ethanol produced by fermenting yeasts. A new UC Berkeley survey found alcohol in 26 of 29 plant species, revealing th...

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What Are Jellyfish Galaxies and How Do They Form? Science

What Are Jellyfish Galaxies and How Do They Form?

Jellyfish galaxies trail long tentacles of gas and newborn stars as they hurtle through galaxy clusters. Here is how ram-pressure stripping creates th...

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How Beaver Dams Store Carbon and Reshape Rivers Science

How Beaver Dams Store Carbon and Reshape Rivers

Beavers are nature's most prolific engineers, building dams that create wetlands, store massive amounts of carbon, reduce flooding, and boost biodiver...

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68,000-Year-Old Hand Stencil in Indonesia Is Oldest Cave Art Science

68,000-Year-Old Hand Stencil in Indonesia Is Oldest Cave Art

An international team of archaeologists has identified a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in a limestone cave on Indonesia's Muna island as the oldest kno...

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How Plate Tectonics Works—and Why Earth Needs It Science

How Plate Tectonics Works—and Why Earth Needs It

Earth's outer shell is cracked into massive moving plates that drive earthquakes, build mountains, regulate climate, and may be essential for life its...

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What Is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone and Why It Matters Science

What Is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone and Why It Matters

The Clarion-Clipperton Zone is a vast stretch of Pacific seafloor rich in critical minerals and undiscovered species. It sits at the center of the glo...

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Poland Allocates PLN 16 Million to Brown Bear Protection Program Science

Poland Allocates PLN 16 Million to Brown Bear Protection Program

The Ministry of Climate has launched a four-year, PLN 16 million+ program to protect the brown bear, encompassing prevention, intervention, and educat...

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What Are Sleeper Sharks and How Do They Live 500 Years? Science

What Are Sleeper Sharks and How Do They Live 500 Years?

Sleeper sharks are slow-moving deep-sea predators that rank among the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth. Their unique biochemistry, ultra-slow metabo...

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