Cameron Duke is a contributing writer for Live Science who mainly covers life sciences. He also writes for New Scientist as well as MinuteEarth and Discovery's Curiosity Daily Podcast. He holds a master's degree in animal behavior from Western Carolina University and is an adjunct instructor at the University of Northern Colorado, teaching biology.
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Bloated 'alien' creature that washed ashore in Australia possibly identifiedA weirdly bloated creature, whose head has been defleshed and body looks more like a swollen, discolored beast of myth than anything real, washed up on an Australian beach last week.
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Sudden collapse of Antarctic ice shelf could be sign of things to comeA massive Antarctic ice shelf that covered an area about the size of New York City or Rome just collapsed into the ocean.
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'Informational simplicity' may explain why nature favors symmetrySymmetry is so common in biology because life favors simple structures over complex ones.
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Surprise! King cobra is actually a royal lineage of 4 speciesThe king cobra is not one species, but four independent ones, spread throughout the Asian tropics.
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Spiders hunt in packs of hundreds to swarm preyPack hunting spiders use web vibrations to coordinate their attacks.
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9 out of 10 ticks in this Pennsylvania park carried a potentially fatal neurological virusPennsylvania officials spotted a worrisome concentration of ticks carrying a severe tick-borne disease in a single park. Is this an anomaly or part of a larger trend?
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Watch amazing video of cockatoos that learn to play 'golf'Goffin's cockatoos play golf in an experiment exploring their ability to combine multiple objects into one tool.
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Creepy, big-eyed cockroach discovered trapped in amber from 100 million years agoThis Cretaceous-era cockroach was active during the day and has eyes to prove it.
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'Bomb cyclone' set to bring blizzards and hurricane-force winds to the Northeast on Friday: Here's why.A 'bomb cyclone' is expected to bring strong winds and dump inches of snow on the U.S. Northeast on Friday and Saturday.
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Watch a python swallow an impala whole in this jaw-dropping videoAn incredible video shows an African rock python swallowing an impala.
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Largest fish nursery discovered beneath Weddell Sea in AntarcticaScientists onboard an icebreaker in Antarctica were blown away when they spied a trove of 60 million icefish nests dotting the floor of the Weddell Sea.
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Wild video shows goldfish 'driving' a water-filled car in weird experimentA supremely weird new video shows a goldfish driving a water-filled, motorized "car" to help scientists understand how they navigate on land.
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Unimaginable diversity of life discovered beneath Antarctic ice shelfBy Cameron Duke Published
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Woolly mammoths survived on mainland North America until 5,000 years ago, DNA revealsAncient DNA reveals that woolly mammoths coexisted with humans in North America for 5,000 years longer than previously believed.
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Indestructible 'Black Box' will record our planet's demise in minute detailThe disaster recorder aims to set us on a better path by watching our every move.
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Newfound millipede breaks world record for the most legsThe millipede has over 1,300 legs and was found deep underneath Western Australia.
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Ants vomit into each other's mouths to form social bondsAnts are highly social animals that have social networks, and they exchange info through vomit.
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Dog DNA tests: How accurate are they, and what can you learn?Reference Of the many dog DNA tests on the market, which one is right for you and your pet? How do they work, are they accurate, and what can you learn?
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This fish has 555 teeth … and it loses 20 every dayThe Pacific lingcod has a mouth full of teeth and sheds up to 20 per day.
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After rampant ivory poaching, some African elephants lost their tusks — Why?For some elephants, survival meant ditching their tusks. Now they are slowly getting them back.
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DNA paternity tests: how they work and how to do oneREFERENCE Find out how to pick the right DNA paternity test for you and the facts about how genetic paternity testing works
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Dark regions of the genome may drive the evolution of new speciesThe findings suggest a way to rescue "doomed" animal hybrids.
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Every year, billions of black ice worms crawl from the ice on Mount Rainier. We have no idea why.Every summer, billions of ice worms emerge from the ice. As for what they are doing there, scientists really don't know.
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Sneaky birds caught on video while yanking hair from live animalsYouTube videos show that birds pull animal hair more often than previously thought.
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