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Zebra Stripes Are Bug Repellant?
Stripes may do more than help zebras hide in tall grass—the pattern may scramble the vision of bloodsucking horseflies
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Black Hole Seen Eating Asteroids?
An ongoing rocky buffet would explain bright x-ray flares seen around our galaxy's supermassive black hole since 1999, astronomers say.
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Lake Vostok Breached
Russian scientists have confirmed that they have breached the subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica—a first.
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Violent Monkey Takeover
"This doesn't look good," says a Nat Geo explorer as rivals menace a patriarch. Hours pass, blood spills, and power changes hands. Video.
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"Porta Potty" Flower Found
A new relative of the "corpse flower" growing in Madagscar smells like rotting meat and feces, researchers say.
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Pictures: Bird Mummies "Fed" After Death, Stuffed With Snails
Some of the millions of ancient Egyptian ibis mummies were "fed" after death, scans reveal—the better to live through the afterlife.
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Oldest Animal Discovered?
Could 760-million-year-old African "sponges" be humankind's earliest known ancestors?
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Can Bubble Curtains Help Whales?
Oil and wind power companies are testing a novel technology—air bubbles—to shield marine mammals from the sound of offshore operations.
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16th-Century Guinea Pig Found
The tiny South American rodents were bred as pets across social classes in 16th- and 17th-century Europe, a new study says.
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Photos: "Monster" Crustaceans Found
"It's a mystery" why giant, shrimp-like animals found off New Zealand are nearly three times larger than other amphipods, experts say.
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