Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
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- Animals
There’s no ‘i’ in elephant
These clever mammals may know when two trunks are better than one.
- Plants
Carnivorous plants say ‘cheese’
It took high-speed cameras to reveal how the bladderwort gets lunch.
- Microbes
Life in the bacterial underground
Tiny life forms in rock may coax minerals to release hydrogen for food.
- Environment
Cleaning up fish farms
Although fish farms can supply lots of food, these operations may also cause pollution and hurt wild populations.
- Fossils
Dinosaur Eggs-citement
Scientists have found dinosaur eggs, with their shells on, inside a female dino fossil.
- Animals
Doing the Bob
A crane's jerky neck movements may allow the bird to see its food more clearly.
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- Climate
Arctic algae show climate change
Sediment from Arctic lakes shows that much of the Northern Hemisphere has been warming for many decades.
- Animals
A fallout feast for crabs
Crabs can take advantage of hot, toxic plumes from undersea vents to feed on poisoned plankton.
- Animals
Blotchy face, big-time wasp
If paper wasps pretend to be something they're not, their peers get angry.
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