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Where eagles flirt: A Capitol tale of love, loss and raccoons
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5 years ago
By Associated Press WASHINGTON — It's a tale with everything you'd need for a soap opera: star-crossed lovers, a stable relationship threatened by younger suitors, pregnancy and loss, and a hungry...
California science exhibit explains the dog-human friendship
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5 years ago
Did people domesticate dogs or was it the other way around? And why do these two species seem to think so much alike, act so much alike and get along so well? The California Science Center...
A cardinal that is half male, half female puzzles scientists, delights birdwatchers
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5 years ago
By Ben Kesslen Shirley and Jeffrey Caldwell don’t fashion themselves professional birdwatchers, but they dabble. “We just watch out the window, and we have some feeders,” Shirley told NBC...
Who cares if dogs aren't exceptional? At least they're better than humans
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6 years ago
I don’t care if science says my dog is dumb, because I already know that she is. She’s afraid of paper bags, for Pete's sake. She’s snapped her nose in a mouse trap more than once. She runs from...
These domesticated foxes were 60 years in the making
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6 years ago
Does the future have pet foxes? Scientists are uncovering new clues to the origins of domestication in an unlikely creature: foxes. After nearly 60 years of selective breeding in Siberia,...
Parrots Think They’re So Smart. Now They’re Bartering Tokens for Food.
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6 years ago
Chalk up another achievement for parrots , with an odd twist that raises questions about whether the experimenters or the birds know best. Image is clickable A test of four different...
Scientists Have Discovered the First Known Omnivorous Shark
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6 years ago
A bonnethead shark. D. Ross Robertson/Wikimedia Sharks are virtually synonymous with carnivorousness , but the bonnethead shark, as new research suggests, is a true flexitarian,...
Scientists Find Evidence of 1,000-Year-Old Parrot-Breeding Operation in the American Southwest
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6 years ago
DNA evidence appears to have revealed an ancient parrot-breeding operation in the southwestern United States, a new study reports. A team of researchers from several U.S. universities analyzed...
1 Hen, 76 Ducklings: What’s the Deal With This Picture?
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6 years ago
Where she goes, they follow. All 76 of them. A female duck in Minnesota has about six dozen ducklings in her care, a remarkable image that an amateur wildlife photographer captured on a recent...
An ancient swimming revolution in the oceans may have never happened
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6 years ago
About 540 million years ago , the oceans were an alien landscape, devoid of swimming, or nektonic, creatures. Some scientists have hypothesized, based on fossil evidence, that swimmers suddenly...
Tyrannosaurus rex was a big meanie, so this newly discovered dinosaur wore plenty of armor
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6 years ago
Andrey Atuchin and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science Living in the Cretaceous period would have been pretty darn dangerous for pretty much any animal. Dinosaurs were out in...
The National Zoo’s Golden Lion Tamarins Delight Curators with the Delivery of Twins
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6 years ago
On Friday, June 29, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo celebrated the birth of two golden lion tamarins to first-time parents Mo and Izzy. While infant mortality rates are high among golden lion...
Australian Feral Cats Eat More Than a Million Reptiles Per Day
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6 years ago
If you want to get into a blistering argument on the internet, just bring up feral cats, the descendants of our favorite domestic mouse catchers that are now living wild. While advocates argue...
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