For many of us, moving to a new house means recruiting a couple good friends to help pack and haul boxes. After…
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Aggregators 3000 Years Ago, We Were What We Ate
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Aggregators The Science of Snakeskin: Black Velvety Viper Scales May be Self-Cleaning
Whether you love them or hate them, snakes have long captivated our interest and imagination. They’ve spurred countless stories and fears, some…
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Aggregators Falcon Physics: The Science of Diving Peregrine Falcons
Peregrine falcons, the world’s fastest-moving animal, are found on six continents around the world. Once an endangered species in the United States…
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Aggregators Buzz Me Baby: Unusual Courtship Songs for Valentine’s Day
When most people think of Valentine’s Day, images of love, candy, and flowers pop to mind. However, this Valentine’s Day, we…
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Featured Image Two Shark Studies Reveal the Old and Slow
Sharks live in the vast, deep, and dark ocean, and studying these large fish in this environment can be difficult. We may…
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Author Spotlight The Missing Underwater Forests of Australia: Restoring Phyllospora comosa Around Sydney
Although seaweed is the dominant habitat-forming organism along temperate coastlines, one of the major macroalgae of Australia, Phyllospora comosa, has disappeared over…
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Aggregators Unearthing the Environmental Impact of Cambodia’s Ancient City, Mahendraparvata
From the 9th to the mid-14th century, the region of Angkor in modern-day northern Cambodia was the capital of Khmer Empire…
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Images Rainforest Fungi Find Home in Sloth Hair
Most of us have seen a cute sloth video or two on the Internet. Their squished faces, long claws, and scruffy fur make these…
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Aggregators A Year in Review: 2013 PLOS ONE Papers in the Media
Image Credit: Yutaka Tsutano Tired of year-end lists? We know you’ve got room for at least one more. 2013 was…
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Aggregators New Year, New Species
Rock lizards, pigment producing fungus, eagle rays, ant garden parasites, and Antarctic sea anemones: new species are discovered all the time and…
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Fun Underwater Compositions: Song Sharing Between Southern Ocean Humpback Whales
Imagine a world where sight is limited by the extreme scattering of photons and smell is ineffective due to lethargic diffusion of…
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Aggregators Fish Beware – A New Species of Parasite is Discovered
The world is full of creepy crawlers; some are harmless bugs while others are blood sucking parasites. Adding to the list of…