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"Drunk" Bats Fly Right--Discovery Surprises Scientists
Some bat species can fly and communicate just as well while inebriated as while sober—even with blood alcohol levels that would exceed legal limits in humans.
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Vampire Squid Turns "Inside Out"
The vampire squid can turn itself "inside out" to avoid predators—as seen in a video just released to emphasize the need to protect deep-sea species from the effects of human activities. Video.
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Tentacled Snake Uses Odd Appendages to Sense Prey
Just as Spider-man has his spidey sense to warn him when danger's near, the bizarre tentacled snake has its own special system for sensing an approaching meal, a new study says.
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"Sex Puppeteers" Force Sex Change, Virgin Birth in Bugs via Genes
Fast-spreading parasites force sex changes on victims, induce virgin births, and turn animals into "gross monsters"—all via genetic sabotage, a new study finds.
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Pictures: Dinosaur "Death Pits" May Be Fossil Footprints
Following in a giant dinosaur's footsteps could be fatal—but not for the reasons you might suspect. A new study suggests that death traps filled with rare raptor fossils may have been created when a behemoth strolled across ashy mud.
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Dinosaur "Death Pits" Created by Giant's Footprints?
Chinese pits filled with an astounding array of small dinosaur fossils may have been created by a 20-ton behemoth wandering a volcanic landscape, a new study suggests.
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Surprise! Radioactive Water Jugs Not as Healthy as Advertised
You could probably guess why the Revigator, a uranium-lined, early-20th century drinking-water jar, was a serious health risk—and you’d be wrong. Radioactivity was only a minor part of the problem, a new study says.
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Cell Phone Use May Fight Alzheimer's, Mouse Study Says
Yes, you heard right: Cell phone radiation may protect against and even reverse Alzheimer's-like symptoms, according to a new study involving genetically tweaked mice.
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Giant Carbon "Vault" Proposed Near New York City
Undersea carbon dioxide reservoirs could store massive amounts of the potent greenhouse gas near eastern U.S. cities—but may also pose an earthquake risk, a new study says.
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Some Females Too Sexy for Own Good, Fly Study Says
Too much sex can be a bad thing. "Sexy" female fruit flies get so much attention—and toxic semen—that they have trouble finding food and their birthrates fall, a new study says.
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PICTURES: "Night Shining" Clouds Getting Brighter
Shimmering high in the atmosphere, night-shining clouds have long graced polar sunsets. But now the clouds are appearing more often and with more intensity at lower latitudes—possibly due to climate change, scientists say.
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Giant Salamanders Helped to Spawn
A new program in Japan is helping giant salamanders get past dams built to control flooding so the rare amphibians can lay their eggs upstream. Video.
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Early Whale Was Dwarf Mud-Sucker, Fossils Hint
Unearthed in southeastern Australia, the tiny, ancient whale likely captured its prey by slurping up mouthfuls of mud from the seafloor, scientists say.
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"Pregnant" Fish Fathers Suck the Life From Their Young
With the fathers taking on the responsibility of "gestating" their young, the story of pipefish reproduction is among the more heartwarming in biology. Well, it was.
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Venomous Dinosaur Discovered--Shocked Prey Like Snake?
Jurassic Park may have had it partly right. Some raptors did have venom, though it was more stupefying than lethal, a new study suggests.
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True-Color Dinosaur Pictures: First Full-Body Rendering
See the woodpecker-like dinosaur that's made history as the first to be fully and scientifically colored—and the feathery fossil that spawned the new view.
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"Super Earth" May Really Be New Planet Type: Super-Io
A planet touted as the most Earthlike outside our solar system might be molten on one side with raging volcanoes on the other, say scientists who think the rocky world CoRoT-7b is closer kin to Jupiter's moon Io.
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