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Marine animals swim in circles
Fish, penguins, turtles, and mammals do, and it doesn’t make sense.
Japanese scientists have stumbled on a mysterious phenomenon: sharks, turtles, penguins and various marine mammals al...
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Bee behaviour: what do bees do at home?
Cannibalism, according to close-up videos that show bee behaviour.
What goes on in the beehive? These videos, published in the journal PLOS ONE by Paul Siefert from Goethe-Universität,...
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Songbirds without a song
Regent honeyeaters lose ability to sing their tune as populations decline.
What’s a songbird without its song? Sadly, we are finding out. Australian regent honeyeaters are failing to learn ...
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Birdsong baffles babies
Researchers find that baby brains are bolstered by lemur and human voices – but not by birdsong.
The blue-eyed black lemur (Elemur flavirons) may be a close genetic cousin of ours, but these small, lanky tree-dwell...
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Birds thrive in the Murray-Darling
Waterbirds thrive off donated water and traditional water management.
It’s a Murray-Darling bird-breeding party in the Gayini (Nimmie-Caira) wetlands in south west New South Wales, as bir...
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Deceptive smells
Mammal predators can be tricked into leaving vulnerable NZ birds alone.
It’s not only humans who can be fooled with misinformation to change their choices. Animals can be tricked too, it se...
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Headless? No hindrance…
Japanese researchers discover a remarkable ability in an already interesting sea slug.
Move aside salamander, this sea slug is about to blow your regeneration powers out of the water. Scientists from N...
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You may have missed...
Stray science stories from last week to cheer up your Monday.
It's getting hot in here ... 430 degrees Celsius hot, that is. Artist's interpretation. Credit: RenderArea, https://r...
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Cats love it but mozzies don’t
Scientists reveal why catnip is a potent insect repellent.
At the risk of becoming the Pied Piper of cats, you could use the garden herb catnip as a non-toxic insect repellent ...
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Dazzle to survive
Scientists reveal the evolutionary history of fairy wrasses.
Diversification of the stunningly colourful fairy wrasses was propelled by sea-level changes during the last ice age,...
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Origin of the world’s largest lizard
More evidence that Komodo dragons came from Australia.
Unravelling the origins of the Earth’s largest living lizard, the Komodo dragon, scientists have found that its ances...