The Colorado River disappeared from the geological record for five million years: scientists now know where it went
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The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for
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Students develop faux but sexy robotic sage grouse to strut their stuff in an effort to move a Grand Teton National Park breeding-ground lek away from jets
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Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing -- colonies surged fifteen-fold
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'They've probably been untouched for 49 million years': The New Mexico cave expanding our search for alien life
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Light pollution is causing birds like the Australian magpie-lark to sing for longer
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Scientists uncover 75,000-year-old Arctic animal remains in Norwegian cave
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Keystone molecules: a new, chemical view of ecosystems
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Piece of fossilised fish vomit has been found in Denmark – unusual discovery dated to the end of the Cretaceous period sixty-six million years ago
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California squirrels are hunting and eating voles, surprising UC Davis study says
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Plants really do 'scream'. We've simply never heard them until now.
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When Rob Barrett surveyed one of Norway's largest seabird colonies in the '70s there were too many birds to count – stark before and after photographs reveal sharp decline
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As the sun falls over a vast Danish marshland, more than a million starlings undulate in mesmerising murmurations – but how they do it remains mysterious
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Scientists discover new ecosystem underneath hydrothermal vents
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Drones are showing us sharks like never before
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The secret life of deep sea vents
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What animal or insect going extinct would have the greatest impact on the ecosystem?
Curious on some replies here. I always hear having bees go extinct would be horrible for us. Curious if that’s the worse?
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The Great Southern Reef is an extensive and valuable ecosystem … that not very many people know about
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“What If?” Eleven serious answers to slightly crazy science questions
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Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like two million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland
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Bucking convention to track the upside of invasive species
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The world’s biggest bacterium found in Caribbean mangrove swamp, visible to the naked eye
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The portentous comeback of humpback whales
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"The project goal is to connect a worldwide array of sensors that monitor the sparsely observed deep ocean environment, ocean climate, and sea level rise."
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Excerpts from the Atlas of Poetic Botany
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Butterflies released in Finland contained parasitic wasps, with more wasps inside – introduction of Glanville fritillary leads to emergence of three new species on island of Sottunga
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Meth addiction in fish poses threat to ecosystem balance, study says
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How will plants cope with fewer pollinators?
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Once mysterious, ocean surface slicks are pelagic nurseries for diverse fishes
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Coral discovered in uncharted Danish waters – a mapping project led by the conservationist Klaus Thymann has revealed a rich, varied habitat off the coast of Jutland
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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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A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists, using an innovative and low-cost deep-sea video camera
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Jumping worms are taking over North American forests
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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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The sealed garden that was only watered once in fifty-three years
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How one couple's adventure has uncovered secrets of humpback whales' survival
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Scientists identify vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms
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The Pando aspen clone or 'trembling giant', the world's largest organism, is collapsing
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Big fish are found deep not because of age, climate, or prey, but because of us
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3D scans reveal deep-sea anglerfish's huge final meal
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