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People in China lived alongside 'chicken-killing tigers' long before domestic cats arrivedLeopard cats were living alongside people in ancient China for more than 3,500 years before domestic cats arrived from Europe via the Silk Road.
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A decade-long chimp war ended in a baby boom for the victors, scientists discoverA deadly conflict between rival groups of chimpanzees in Uganda led to comprehensive victory and a bounty of territory and food — does it show why humans go to war?
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Why do vultures circle?Circling vultures aren't waiting for you to die, and seeing them should be a welcome sight because of the benefits they bring, experts say.
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'Nothing but a nightmare': Worker ants are tricked into murdering their mom by an imposter queen — who quickly takes the throne for herselfA sneaky spray of chemicals makes ant workers turn on their own mother — the queen — so a parasitic invader can take over the colony herself.
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Medieval Hungarian duke was murdered in a brutal and coordinated attack, forensic analysis revealsThe skeleton of Béla, the Duke of Macsó, shows that he was murdered by three assailants in a bloody and coordinated attack.
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Nanotyrannus isn't a 'mini T. Rex' after all — it's a new species, 'dueling dinosaurs' fossil revealsAn argument over whether fossils from several small dinosaurs represent a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex or smaller adults of a separate species may finally be settled.
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'An increasing attack on water resources from multiple fronts': Scientists warn 'day zero droughts' could hit before 2030Three-quarters of the world's drought-prone areas are at risk of extreme water shortages — known as "day zero droughts" — this century, and some could be hit before 2030.
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Some naked mole rats are designated toilet cleaners, study suggestsNaked mole rats may have specific roles, such as cleaning the toilet chamber or transporting waste, rather than being generalist helpers. The findings suggest naked-mole-rat colonies are even more complex than we thought.
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Iran among 'world's most extreme subsidence hotspots' with some areas sinking up to 1 foot per year, study findsThe extraction of water from aquifers in Iran is causing an area the size of Maryland to sink, exposing an estimated 650,000 people to the risks of subsidence and freshwater depletion.
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Gigantic dinosaur with 'claws like hedge trimmers' found with croc leg still in its jaws in ArgentinaSpeedy megaraptor Joaquinraptor casali had big arms and claws like hedge trimmers that would have made T. rex's forelimbs look puny.
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'Rare' ancestor reveals how huge flightless birds made it to faraway landsThe mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.
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Scientists are finally learning what's inside mysterious 'halo' barrels submerged off Los AngelesAt first thought to hold the pesticide DDT, some mysterious barrels dumped in the deep sea near Los Angeles actually contain caustic alkaline waste that stops most life from living nearby.
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Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees unseen for 80 yearsGray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help control the numbers of elk that were eating young trees, and it is finally paying off for quaking aspen.
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A peatland in the Amazon stopped absorbing carbon. What does it mean?Peatlands cover just a fraction of Earth's surface, but store huge amounts of carbon. In the Peruvian Amazon, one of these swamps has switched to carbon neutral.
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Salmon-hat wearing orcas also give each other massages with kelp, scientists discoverOrcas have been spotted giving each other rubdowns with kelp tools, rubbing pieces of the seaweed between their bodies.
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Groundwater in the Colorado River basin won't run out — but eventually we won’t be able to get at it, scientists warnThe Colorado River basin has lost a Lake Mead’s worth of water in the last 20 years — and scientists say we’re passing a "critical point" where pumping groundwater will become too expensive.
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Meet 'Dragon prince' — the newly discovered T. rex relative that roamed Mongolia 86 million years agoA new species of dinosaur that was probably a princely ancestor of T. rex, the king of the dinosaurs, has been identified from fossils excavated in Mongolia.
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Capuchins have started abducting newborn howler monkeys in bizarre, deadly fadYoung male capuchins have developed a strange trend of acquiring baby howler monkeys. It doesn't end well for the babies.
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'This should not be published': Scientists cast doubt on study claiming trees 'talk' before solar eclipsesClaims that spruce trees synchronize their responses to a solar eclipse were widely reported recently — but many researchers are sceptical of the results.
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In rare evolutionary event, weird platypus cousin evolved from living in water to living on landWe may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in the water, not on land.
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