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Blind creature that buries its head in the sand named after Donald Trump

The resemblance is uncanny.

First flowering plants may have appeared 50 million years earlier than previously thought

Charles Darwin called the origin of flowering plants an "abominable mystery".

Tourists might be bringing diseases to Antarctica's penguins

Tourists are bringing dangerous pathogens to the Antarctic.

Researchers want to vaccinate bees so we don't run out of food

I can’t BEElive this!

"Prehistoric Pompeii" answers the question of when animals first moved on land

It's so sad though :(.

How pink poop and satellites revealed a giant penguin colony

Don't eat the pink snow.

Thawing Canadian Arctic permafrost is releasing "substantial amounts" of mercury into waterways

In the Canadian Arctic, mercury isn't rising only in thermometers.

An ant colony has memories that its individual members don’t have

The whole is larger than the sum of the parts.

Giant marsupial predator was "unlike any living animal"

It was a fierce beast.

Dracula ants have the fastest body parts known to man: their jaws

After all, they are called Dracula ants.

City frogs are more attractive than their countriside cousins, new study shows

Female frogs like city boys, a new study finds.

Research identifies a gene that makes our brains (and those of primates) unique

Smarts, we got'em!

252 million years ago, climate change nearly wiped out life on Earth; something similar is happening today

If this sounds a bit alarming... it should.

MIT designs and builds a plant-robot plantborg that can move towards light

Its name is Elowan and it probably comes in peace.

"Wearable microbrewery" could serve as radiation exposure marker

Yeast badges could be the radiation sensors of the future.

The recipe for life may have another ingredient

Scientists are cooking life.

Google's AI algorithm could usher in new age of protein understanding

We're entering a new age of scientific breakthrough, and this could be absolutely huge.

China pulls the plug on rogue scientist who genetically modified twin human babies

The whole odd affair is unprecedented.

One bacteria lives on everybody's skin -- and it's becoming resistant to antibiotics

Could you... please not, bacteria?

New deep-water microbes have the skills to help fight climate change

Unexpected but not unwelcome!

Gruesome parasitic wasp turns social spiders into 'zombies'

This wasp is like out of a nightmare.

Termites recycle their methane -- scientists want us to copy them

This isn't the first time we've tried copying termites.

Promising new vaccine technology might finally end HIV-AIDS

Get lost, deadly virus.

Siberian 'unicorn' lived alongside early humans

However, it's not humans that brought its demise, but another familiar culprit.

Scientists pinpoint CBD dose for safe pain and anxiety relief without the cannabis high

More and more people are using CBD oils to manage their pain and anxiety.

Seen more spiders lately? That's because they're no longer afraid of the light, researchers say

So that's why...

Giant, mammal-like herbivore roamed alongside Triassic dinosaurs, new fossil reveals

This could change a paleontology book or two.

Cave insects that have female penises evolved independently

These cave insects have reversed sexual organs. Now, scientists have learned more about this fascinating quirk of nature.

Birds-of-paradise males need more than looks to get a girlfriend

These gals want everything to be just right.

Cat's tongues are surprisingly complex -- and better at cleaning than any brush we have

Fur lickin' findings.

Sprawling termite complex from Brazil is visible from space -- and 4,000 years old

Technically, it's piles of construction waste, in the termites' eyes.

Scientists draw inspiration from nature to develop cheese-smelling electronic nose

Scientists went to the zoo to develop better electronic noses.

How wombats make cubed poop

The answer to a question you never knew you had.

Orangutans can 'talk' about the past and the future, study suggests

We used to believe this is a human-only perk.

New tech transforms human poop into clean biofuel

Sanitation and energy generation in one go.

Rainforest plant may treat pancreatic cancer through ‘antiausterity’ properties

Cool, now we need to find one for the economy, too!

Dry irony: first rain in centuries causes extinction of Atacama Desert microbes

This also means that resurfaced liquid water on Mars might kill any hypothetical surviving microbes.

Most people tend to mirror their mother's number of romantic partners

Turns out most of us are just like our mothers.

Dinosaur-aged birds had modern flying skills

A new study deepens the mystery of avian extinction following the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Plants evolved to manipulate ants into defending them

A chicken and egg problem -- rehashed in an unlikely scenario.

Researchers call for ban on a widely-used pesticide: it impairs brain development

Y'ouch.

Yes, your pet is keeping track of time -- and it probably knows when it's feeding time

It's always feeding time, isn't it?

Scientists create bionic mushroom that generates electricity out of microbes

What do you get when you 3-D print cyanobacteria onto button mushrooms?

Stem-cell-laden skin grafts could heal burn victims 30% faster, if not quicker

"Our goal is no death, no scar, and no pain," adds Marc Jeschke, paper co-author. "With this approach we come closer to no death and no scar."

Woodland hawks flock to cities, research reveals. Other wildlife is doing the same

For hawks, the secret is out: The big city has a lot of food to offer.

Experimental bioreactor helps frogs regenerate lost limbs

No more peg legs on the high seas, yarr!

Cockatoos can create and manipulate tools, study suggests

Bird-brain? Hardly an insult.

Deaf moths use acoustic camouflage to escape bats

It's an evolutionary arms race.

The elephant bird, the largest bird known to man, was actually nocturnal

It also had a keen sense of smell.

Your left hemisphere can veto the right one into submission -- but they generally play nice

We now know more about how the brain's hemispheres sync up.

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