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Mammal ancestors may have given live birth 90 million years earlier than we thought, rewriting evolutionary timelinesA distinctive growth ring in fossilized bones is revealing how an ancestral species in the mammalian family reproduced.
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Why do cats have 'leg whiskers'?Life's Little Mysteries Here's why 'leg whiskers' are useful to cats and other animals.
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Monkeys have a basic intuition for geometry, study suggestsBaboons and macaques appear to use some of the same mental strategies as humans when matching shapes, suggesting that the foundations of geometry evolved in a common ancestor.
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'We're trying this out of frustration': Marmots star in OnlyFans account as researchers desperately look for ways to raise funds amid US budget cutsAs U.S. federal research budgets continue to be slashed, a team of marmot researchers have turned to unconventional sources of funding.
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Mice on 'godforsaken' frozen volcanoes eat toxic plants to survive conditions 'not remotely compatible with long-term human survival'Researchers risked their lives to study Andean leaf-eared mice on the inhospitable peaks of the Puna de Atacama volcanoes in Chile.
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Orange-lipped monkey that roars and snorts deep in Congo rainforest is new species to scienceA striking new monkey species, Colobus congoensis, was discovered deep in the Congo rainforest and has been scientifically described for the first time.
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Scientists are deep-freezing koala eggs and sperm to protect the species from extinctionResearchers at the University of Queensland in Australia want to freeze koala sex cells in liquid nitrogen, which could preserve the DNA for decades until we need it, an expert said.
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Outdoor cats can be exposed to dangerous germs — here's how to protect you and your pets, according to more than 400 studiesOpinion Ecologists and a veterinarian looked at more than 400 studies to see how to stop cats from bringing home unwelcome pathogens.
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Watch bison herd defend a newborn calf from wolf attack in a primeval Polish forestResearchers have captured first-of-its-kind footage of a wolf attack on European bison in the Bialowieza Primeval Forest. The recording shifts our understanding of predator-prey interactions in this region.
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