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Why Great White Sharks Are Vanishing From the Mediterranean Science

Why Great White Sharks Are Vanishing From the Mediterranean

The Mediterranean's great white sharks are critically endangered — fewer than 250 likely remain. Scientists are racing to understand a population that...

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What Is Coral Bleaching and Why It Threatens Reefs Science

What Is Coral Bleaching and Why It Threatens Reefs

Coral bleaching occurs when rising ocean temperatures sever the vital partnership between corals and their food-producing algae, turning reefs white a...

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What Are Alvarezsaurs and Why They Puzzle Scientists Science

What Are Alvarezsaurs and Why They Puzzle Scientists

Alvarezsaurs were a bizarre group of tiny, bird-like dinosaurs with stubby arms and a single giant claw. A near-complete fossil from Patagonia is fina...

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What Is Ancient DNA and How Scientists Use It Science

What Is Ancient DNA and How Scientists Use It

Ancient DNA extracted from bones, teeth, and even permafrost sediments is rewriting human prehistory, revealing lost species, and opening unexpected d...

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Earth's Biodiversity Boom: 16,000 New Species Found Yearly

A landmark University of Arizona study in Science Advances finds scientists are identifying more than 16,000 new species every year — the fastest rate...

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What Are Cryptic Species and How Are They Found? Science

What Are Cryptic Species and How Are They Found?

Beneath the surface of Earth's known biodiversity hides a vast shadow catalogue of look-alike species, genetically distinct but visually indistinguish...

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Nature's Engine Slows: Species Turnover Down by a Third Science

Nature's Engine Slows: Species Turnover Down by a Third

A landmark global study finds that the rate at which species replace each other in ecosystems has slowed by roughly one-third since the 1970s — a para...

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Why Scientists Think Orcas Might Be Several Species Science

Why Scientists Think Orcas Might Be Several Species

Killer whales look alike, but resident fish-eaters and mammal-hunting Bigg's orcas are so genetically and culturally distinct that researchers now arg...

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What Are Lazarus Species and How Do They Survive? Science

What Are Lazarus Species and How Do They Survive?

Lazarus species are animals and plants once declared extinct that later turn up alive. Scientists explain why they vanish from the fossil record — and...

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Amazon Insects at the Edge: Half Face Lethal Heat Science

Amazon Insects at the Edge: Half Face Lethal Heat

A landmark Nature study of over 2,000 insect species finds that rising temperatures could push half of Amazon lowland insects past their survival limi...

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Why Tropical Insects Can't Cope With a Warming World Science

Why Tropical Insects Can't Cope With a Warming World

Tropical insects already live dangerously close to their upper heat limits, and unlike their highland cousins, they cannot adapt fast enough. A landma...

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How the Northern Lights Form and Why They Glow Science

How the Northern Lights Form and Why They Glow

The aurora borealis is one of Earth's most spectacular natural phenomena — but the physics behind those shimmering curtains of color is equally remark...

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