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'It's nature calling to humans, and humans deciding whether or not to reply': Why we need to start paying attention to our mutually beneficial relationships with other species -
'Parasites of human societies': How did we end up so close to cats?27 Comments -
'Their greatest challenge since they stared down the asteroid': Paleontologist Steve Brusatte on why birds are facing their biggest existential threat since the dino-killing asteroid3 Comments
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Flat-headed cat not seen in Thailand for almost 30 years is rediscoveredConservationists are celebrating the rediscovery of flat-headed cats in Thailand after camera traps recorded the endangered feline for the first time in almost 30 years.
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Last of its kind dodo relative spotted in a remote Samoan rainforestThe manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple times in a remote Samoan rainforest.
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Cats meow more at men to get their attention, study suggestsA small study reveals that cats greet male owners more vocally than female ones. But the findings could be a result of cultural norms among the participants, rather than a universal cat behavior, scientists say.
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Pumas in Patagonia started feasting on penguins — but now they're behaving strangely, a new study findsPumas in Patagonia, Argentina are eating penguins in a national park — and it's changing how the big cats are interacting with each other.
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Ancient burrowing bees made their nests in the tooth cavities and vertebrae of dead rodents, scientists discoverScientists made a unique discovery in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola: dozens of fossilized bee nests inside rodent bones that were deposited by owls thousands of years ago.
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Polar bears in southern Greenland are 'using jumping genes to rapidly rewrite their own DNA' to survive melting sea iceWarming temperatures appear to be driving genetic mutations in some polar bears to help them survive the shifting climatic conditions.
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Scientists finally sequence the vampire squid's huge genome, revealing secrets of the 'living fossil'The genetic link between squids and octopuses may just be found in the vampire squid genome.
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Can a turtle tuck its head all the way inside its shell?Turtle shells evolved over the course of 300 million years, but self-defense wasn't the initial driver, researchers think.
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'Very novel and very puzzling': Unknown species of squid spotted burying itself upside down, pretending to be a plantA new study reveals an unknown species of whiplash squid burying itself upside down in the deep sea — a first-of-its-kind behavior for cephalopods.
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