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February 15, 2026, 12:49 PM - 6 min read
The turkey vulture’s keen sense of smell was put to use by oil company engineers in 1930s California. Workers were having trouble with leaks along a 42-mile-long natural gas pipeline but noticed that vultures would often congregate around these leaks. The engineers used this to their advantage, observing the vultures to pinpoint and repair leaks.
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February 6, 2026, 01:25 PM - 6 min read
Claims that de-extinction can reverse extinction are misleading. Genetic engineering can introduce lost traits from an extinct species into a closely related living species and restore lost ecological functions, but it can’t re-create the extinct species. Problems arise when companies present these limits cautiously within the scientific community but make stronger claims in public-facing communication.
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January 29, 2026, 04:25 PM - 6 min read
Shark teeth are also disposable—they are constantly replaced throughout their lives, like a conveyor belt pushing a new tooth forward roughly every few weeks.
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January 21, 2026, 03:55 PM - 5 min read
Frogs are one of the most threatened groups of animals on the planet. One in five species of Australian frogs—almost 50 species—are threatened with extinction. Disease, habitat loss and climate change are their greatest threats.
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January 5, 2026, 04:13 PM - 7 min read
The team of researchers used special audio recorders that could capture bird songs over long distances and for long periods without them being there. These recorders picked up all the singing from the start to the end of the dawn chorus.
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November 27, 2025, 01:32 PM - 5 min read
Dogs aren’t stockpiling their food due to anxiety about impending disaster. Instead, they’re revealing how their evolutionary past still shapes modern behaviours.
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November 19, 2025, 03:06 PM - 5 min read
It therefore seems likely that gulls have learned to associate our aggressive or angry intonations with threat.
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November 9, 2025, 01:30 PM - 4 min read
In a new study, researchers quantified the energy cost of pumping blood for a typical adult giraffe and compared it to what it would be in an imaginary animal with short legs but a longer neck to reach the same treetop height.
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October 29, 2025, 04:07 PM - 2 min read
Madhya Pradesh will release crocodiles into the Narmada river as part of a wider conservation push. India hosts three crocodile species, with Madhya Pradesh key to revival efforts.
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