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Bonobos are no more peaceful than chimpanzees

Aggression among chimpanzees. © Jake S. Brooker / Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Trust Unlike chimpanzees, bonobos have a reputation for being gentle and...
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Raccoons: Success through curiosity and the joy of exploration

Raccoons are adaptable and innovative. This is also evident when solving a puzzle box. © Hannah Griebling The raccoons introduced to Europe...
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Mice happily gnaw each other

Mice and other rodents don't just use their teeth to eat. © slobo/ iStock When rodents gnaw, it is not a purely...
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Agri-PV: More than just electricity from the field

Agri-photovoltaics combines solar energy and agriculture on the same area. © Research Center Jülich / Sascha Kreklau Agri-photovoltaics is considered a promising...
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Combined droughts and heat waves have increased sharply

Combined heat-drought weather extremes have increased. © leolintang/ iStock The combination of heat and drought is particularly dangerous for people and nature:...
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Current sea levels were underestimated

How high is the sea level? This question is not so easy to answer in many coastal areas. © Evgen_Prozhyrko/ iStock The...
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Smart natural capital

Our lives are made up of transactions, almost everything has value. But what value can we give to protecting biodiversity, i.e. nature - from...
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How wild cats adapt to human influences

A wild cat goes hunting in a grain field - outside of its usual forest habitat (illustration). © Chris Baumann European wildcats are actually shy...
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Tiny dinosaur from Argentina provides new insights into evolution

This is what the small dinosaur Alnashetri cerropolisiensis might have looked like around 90 million years ago. © Gabriel Diaz Yantén A nearly complete miniature...
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Rare ant species consists only of queens

Several light brown, winged young queens of the parasitic ant species Temnothorax kinomurai can be seen in this nest. The dark ants are workers...
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How horses neigh

A horse neighing. How do these animals produce high and low tones at the same time? © Elodie Briefer Horse neighing consists of a unique...
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The Earth’s “green wave” is shifting

The greening of vegetation changes with the seasons. The center of gravity shifts alternately to the north and south. © Guido Kraemer The annual greening...
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Skulls from China are the oldest Homo erectus fossils in East Asia

Fossils and reconstruction of two of the three early human skulls from Yunxian, China. © Xiaobo Feng Homo erectus is considered to be the first...
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Why the elephant trunk is so sensitive

In the sunlight, the many whiskers on the elephant's trunk can be clearly seen. © Heidelberg Zoo, Alejandro Posada/ Max Planck Institute for Intelligent...
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Hidden insect diversity inside blades of grass

Two females of the parasitic wasp Torymus arundinis pierce rice grain galls of the gall midge Giraudiella inclusa in a reed stalk. © Tscharntke,...
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Honey bees fly more precisely than expected

Honey bees fly to their food sources from the hive with surprising precision. © kojihirano/ iStock Honey bees pollinate a large proportion of our crops...
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Climate researchers warn again about heading into the “hot season”

Is there a threat of a new hot period in which ice areas like those here in Antarctica will disappear? © Austin Carter/COLDEX Even if...
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An ant made from Goethe’s amber

Ant in amber: 3D reconstruction in front of the amber piece from Goethe's collection. © Bernhard Bock/Daniel Tröger Even around 200 years after Johann Wolfgang...
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Seaweed as an underestimated carbon store

Greenland seaweed stocks, such as the bladderwrack shown here, can make a major contribution to long-term carbon storage and thus help with climate protection....
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Surprising species discovery in the North Sea

Marine biologists have discovered five new species of copepods in the North Sea - here colored differently. © Sven Rossel The German North Sea is...
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