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Learn about animals, including the latest animal news, advancements in animal health research and animal photos.

  • New 'Tinkerbell' insect is mind-blowingly small

    Wed, Apr 24, 2013 9:30 AM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    Fairyflies are a type of chalcid wasp, and almost all are parasites, living on the eggs and larvae of other insects.

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  • Kansas woman encounters escaped circus tiger in bathroom

    Tue, Apr 23, 2013 11:10 AM by Melissa Breyer

    The Salina resident and her 3-year-old daughter are able to slip away unharmed.

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  • Live webcam uncovers osprey love triangle

    Mon, Apr 22, 2013 5:47 PM by Explore.org

    As one osprey pair reveals, monogamy is not always the way it works out.

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  • Like Tiger Moms, red squirrels help their offspring through stress

    Mon, Apr 22, 2013 12:00 PM by Megan Gannon, LiveScience

    The over-eager squirrel mothers do what they can to speed up their offsprings' growth, but it could also mean a shorter life.

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  • Blue-eyed lemur: Striking ... and endangered [Photos]

    Mon, Apr 22, 2013 11:45 AM by Catie Leary

    Zoo staff in France are doing their best to raise this tiny endangered primate after he was rejected by his mother.

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  • Sharks dive deep under full moon

    Sun, Apr 21, 2013 9:30 AM by Megan Gannon, LiveScience

    Studies suggest that the moon's brightness might sway the movements of many big fish.

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  • What kind of spider is that?

    Fri, Apr 19, 2013 5:02 PM by Tom Oder

    Don't be a Miss Muffet. Smash the myths and learn the truth about the most common arachnids on the planet.

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  • Dinos sat on nests like birds, eggshells reveal

    Fri, Apr 19, 2013 11:53 AM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    When incubating its eggs, one dinosaur went the avian route and sat on them to prompt hatching.

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  • Scientists still stumped on sickly sea lion strandings

    Fri, Apr 19, 2013 11:21 AM by Megan Gannon, LiveScience

    The reasons behind why almost 1,300 ill sea lions have beached themselves on California's shores in 2013 remain unclear..

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  • Ants 'use math' to find quickest route

    Thu, Apr 18, 2013 4:36 PM by Tanya Lewis, LiveScience

    Scientists have found that when ants are trying to get somewhere, they choose the path with the shortest walking time, not the shortest distance.

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  • Does fish DNA support evolution of limbs?

    Thu, Apr 18, 2013 10:40 AM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    Researchers discovered an enhancer, a 'dark matter' of the genome that somehow turns genes on and off.

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  • Was the Loch Ness Monster invented to boost tourism? A new study investigates

    Wed, Apr 17, 2013 4:16 PM by Melissa Breyer

    An academic notes that many of the reported sightings have come from cafe and hotel proprietors.

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  • Could life be older than Earth itself?

    Wed, Apr 17, 2013 4:02 PM by Jillian Scharr, TechNewsDaily

    Two geneticists have applied Moore's Law to life instead of computers, and their data suggests that life could have preceded the earth's formation.

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  • On the rebound, New England oysters face climate threat

    Wed, Apr 17, 2013 2:09 PM

    After a generation of effort, New England's waters are clean enough to support an oyster industry. But climate change could undermine those gains.

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  • Why woodchucks don't upchuck

    Wed, Apr 17, 2013 11:10 AM by Charles Choi, LiveScience

    Rodents may have lost the capability to vomit because they evolved other defensive strategies to replace it.

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