Animals

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  1. Animals

    Animals’ personalities can affect a species’ survival

    From bold foxes to shy parrots, animals’ personalities are increasingly being seen as key to saving species.

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  2. Animals

    Brazilian monkeys offer lessons on how to return species to the wild

    Efforts included letting golden lion tamarins roam free in urban U.S. parks. Restoring natural behaviors was key to their survival in the wild.

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  3. Animals

    Mummies suggest a way to help reintroduce cheetahs to Arabia

    DNA from Arabian cheetah remains reveals that these now-extinct populations might be replaced by rewilding close cheetah relatives from northwest Africa.

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  4. Physics

    Could a person ever wield lightning as a weapon? 

    From the shocking powers of electric eels to laser-guided lightning, aiming electricity is more real than it sounds.

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  5. Animals

    As toddlers, chimps are major risk takers

    Human kiddos are generally too closely supervised to be able to monkey around as much as young chimps. Instead, older kids — teens — are usually the bigger risk takers.

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  6. Fossils

    Prehistoric ‘sea’ monster also lurked in rivers, data show

    A 66-million-year-old fossil tooth turned up alongside remains of a T. rex and ancient crocodile. This shows some mosasaurs roamed into rivers.

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  7. Animals

    Lions have a second roar that scientists have only just discovered

    This insight from machine-learning analyses of recordings of calls in the wild might help detect where lions are declining.

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  8. Animals

    Chicago’s Rat Hole? Science concludes it’s likely not from a rat

    Researchers employed tools of paleontology to analyze the iconic landmark — a sidewalk critter crater made when a mystery rodent fell into wet concrete.

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  9. Animals

    Is it possible to be invisible?

    Fiction is full of characters with the power to vanish. But some animals have real-life ways to become nearly invisible.

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