Life

  1. Brain

    Nice Chimps

    Like people, chimpanzees (and babies) seem to help each other out, just because it feels good to be generous.

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  2. Fossils

    A big, weird dino

    A newly discovered genus of feathered dinosaurs was surprisingly huge and heavy for its shape.

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  3. Animals

    News detective: Emily nurses wild animals

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  4. Animals

    Koalas, up close and personal

    By learning more about koalas, people may help save the animals from an uncertain future.

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  5. Animals

    Pothole repair, insect-style

    Army ants forced to travel on a narrow wooden strip throw themselves into holes and allow fellow travelers to race over them.

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  6. Brain

    Baby Talk

    Some infants can tell the difference between two languages just by looking at the speaker's face.

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  7. Animals

    Life on the Down Low

    The first scientific survey of organisms in the deep waters off Antarctica has discovered lots of life.

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  8. Animals

    Little beetle, big horns

    Why do dung beetles have horns? Biologists sniff out some answers.

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  9. Plants

    The Book of Life

    Work has begun on a Web site called the Encyclopedia of Life, which aims to catalog every species on Earth.

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  10. Brain

    Talking with Hands

    Studies of chimpanzees suggest that our ancestors may have "talked" to each other using hand gestures before they learned to speak.

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  11. Fossils

    A Living Fossil

    Scientists have discovered that an Asian rodent belongs to a family of animals that had been thought to be extinct.

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  12. Animals

    Big squid

    Florida fishermen recently hauled in a squid that's like no other ever found in the Atlantic Ocean.

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