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The airborne mammals split from their tree clinging cousins much earlier than thought.
Things start to change when you've been living in the dark for millions of years.
Who took the lights out?
A beautiful solar array shaped like a canopy might provide 2,220 MWh of clean energy annually to Melbourne residents.
The chain of seamounts is brimming with underwater life.
We all know smoking is bad for our health but not a lot of people are aware of the hidden environmental costs of the tobacco industry.
In Ethiopia's grasslands, huge herds of gelada monkeys might be in the process of domesticating wolves.
Faced with the hot and dry savannah, the African elephant evolved a creative solution.
Who doesn't love Legos?
Go Europe, go!
I like trees.
Well, this is an unusual problem to have.
A cannabis expert shares what he knows about the science of CBD.
PCBs have been banned almost two decades ago but their effects are still widely felt by the iconic orcas.
A remarkable finding, already highly vulnerable.
Female power!
No other animal has the same ability.
A small device to tackle a huge problem.
An understudied phenomenon may double the amount of methane released into the atmosphere by the thawing Arctic permafrost.
We've come a long way from being scared, scrawny apes in the savannah.
Since the early 20th century, Earth's axis has shifted by more than 10 meters.
They're heating up twice as fast as everywhere else.
Is this what the future will look like?
Hey, grandpa!
There are not many people I dislike as intensely as ivory poachers.
Wasps are actually useful.
These bright blue trains are the greenest around.
There's some good news, but also a lot of bad news.
Ultimately, what the mosquito eats, we eat as well.
Intelligent behavior emerging from a group of relatively unintelligent organisms.
Go Cali, go!
Not ony are they very precise, but they're also very decisive.
Very Not Good™.
Dragonflies have been around for 200 million years, long before humans stepped in. They also feature intricate wing patterns, which humans are now studying using an algorithm.
The miner who found it thought it was a dog.
And the situation is getting worse.
Oh boy.
Impressive, and very helpful -- visual technology at its finest.
The story of the elephant bird's extinction just got a lot more interesting.
This master of deception adapts its pheromones to the local bee species, and it's deadly effective!
Big moves in California!
A fresh take on an old problem.
Well, here's a surprise.
Bless you!
Oui oui, tres bien!
The letter has generated polarizing responses.
Please don't let the manatees die, they're so cute!
"It’s a bit like being almost blind and putting on glasses for the first time and seeing 20/20," a researcher said.
Both figuratively and literally.
It seems that in this case, the popular belief was wrong.news