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Hanging on a rope no thicker than my thumb about 200 feet above the forest floor ...
Only about 10 percent of them are known, scientists estimate.
Return of the Yellowstone wolf has elks shaking in their hooves.
Finds suggest the Antarctic deep sea is cradle of Earth's marine life.
New method calculates space between roads across country.
Lowly mushrooms and toadstools are reproducing faster, with truly rotten consequences.
As sharks disappear due to overfishing, smaller predators flourish and wipe out lower organisms, a new study finds.
Two albino millipedes have come out of their cavernous hiding places and represent an entirely new genus of these leggy organisms.
Tree growth in temperate forests is driven by availability of water and not by temperature as previously thought.
If the loss of marine species from over fishing and climate change continues at the current rate, all commercial fish and seafood species could collapse by 2048, scientists reported today.
Fog that gathers on the trees and drips to the ground creates more precipitation than normal rainfall.
Scientists are baffled by the appearance but say it could have been intended as someone's dinner.
The most feared creatures at the top of a food chain maintain equilibrium, but humans often disturb this delicate balance.
Researchers found eight previously unknown species of small creatures in a newfound underground cave.
Overfishing of some deep-sea fish could affect the rest of the ocean.
New study finds more than just a disgusting world inside both feather and synthetic pillows.
Scientists want to import endangered animals from Africa to restore America's ecosystem to a prehuman state.
This desert city is lush, creating a unique oasis for people and animals. In the new thinking, pollution is part of the ecosystem.
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