Animals

  1. Animals

    Chicken eggs as drug factories

    Researchers have created chickens that produce useful drugs in their eggs.

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  2. Animals

    G-Tunes with a Message

    Apes known as gibbons can rearrange the notes of their songs to communicate with one another.

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  3. Animals

    The Littlest Lemurs

    Studies of mouse lemurs may tell us something about our own origins.

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  4. Animals

    A tongue and a half

    A nectar-sipping bat from South America has a skinny tongue that's longer than its body.

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  5. Animals

    Lives of a mole rat

    The toothy mammals known as mole rats have highly unusual bodies, brains, and social lives.

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  6. Animals

    Chicken talk

    Chickens can make meaningful sounds that, like words, refer to objects around them.

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  7. Animals

    Decoding how bees work

    Analyzing the DNA code of honeybees may lead to a better understanding of bee societies.

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  8. Animals

    Living in the desert

    Animals adapt in unusual ways to survive in some of the hottest, driest places on Earth.

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  9. Animals

    Crocodile hearts

    A crocodile's special heart may help it digest large, bony meals.

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  10. Animals

    Mating slows down prairie dogs

    Mating season turns distracted male prairie dogs into easy pickings for predators.

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  11. Animals

    A seabird’s endless summer

    Food plays an important part in the migration of seabirds and songbirds.

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  12. Animals

    How to silence a cricket

    A killer fly stalks noise-making crickets in Hawaii.

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