What a mass of rotting carcasses taught scientists – when 323 reindeer were killed by lightning on a remote Norwegian plateau, their bodies were left for nature to take its course
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Blowing bubbles: Soapy spheres pop pollen on fruit trees
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Coronaviruses are extremely widespread in wild animals bred for food in Vietnam, with the wildlife supply chain quickly spreading those viruses to uninfected animals, preliminary research shows
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This marsupial, the swamp wallaby, is the only animal that's always pregnant
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The plant ecology of the Los Angeles River
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How we domesticated cats (twice)
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Vikings killed off Iceland's walruses – ancient DNA says the extinct Icelandic walruses were a genetically distinct population
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How cities reshape the evolutionary path of urban wildlife
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Still snarling after 40,000 years, a giant Pleistocene wolf discovered in Yakutia
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These animals have the world's biggest ears
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The ten best horns in the animal world: The definitive list
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The Australian government has formally recognised the extinction of a tiny island rodent, the Bramble Cay melomys - the first known demise of a mammal because of human-induced climate change.
The current news report: 'Our little brown rat': first climate change-caused mammal extinction The recent government statement: Stronger protection for threatened species The news report from...
The current news report: 'Our little brown rat': first climate change-caused mammal extinction
The recent government statement: Stronger protection for threatened species
The news report from 2016: First Mammal Species Goes Extinct Due to Climate Change
The scientific report from 2016: Confirmation of the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys Melomys rubicola on Bramble Cay, Torres Strait (PDF)
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Where do kangaroos come from, why do they hop, and should we kill them?
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'Sonic attack' or just crickets? New analysis shows recording of 'attack' on US embassy was Caribbean wildlife
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How one couple's adventure has uncovered secrets of humpback whales' survival
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After bloodbath, the National Zoo’s naked mole-rats finally choose their queen
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Elephants have a zombie gene that comes back to life to fight cancer
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Fossilised fat confirms this Ediacaran fossil is Earth's oldest known animal
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Who's afraid of the big bad wolf scientist?
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Bogong moths use the Earth's magnetic field to get their bearings on long distance migrations
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Mammals are becoming more nocturnal to avoid humans, study finds
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This humble Australian bee is helping to disrupt the plastics industry
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Apparently snow lepoards bite their tails more than you'd think
@payoletter: snow leopards biting their tails: a thread
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Rare goose makes 6,000 mile trip from Russian Artic back to Arkansas
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