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Water fleas arm themselves against carnivorous plants

The water hose, also called Utricularia, forms bubble-like traps in the water that suck in and digest water fleas. © Martin...
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The perfect wave – saving energy the Waldrapp way

Like the northern bald ibis, the closely related smooth-naped ibis also flies in wave flight. © barbaraaa/ iStock ...
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Rural way of life in a rodent?

Gopher gophers live around the underground and feed on roots, some of which they apparently "grow" themselves. © Veronica Selden ...
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Cheetahs: Critically endangered and genetically impoverished

Cheetah family in the Masai Mara. © GP232/ iStock Cheetahs are among...
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An “ancestor being” in sight

The Cambrian Yunnanozoans apparently shared a feature that links them to vertebrates: a pharyngeal skeleton made of cellular cartilage. Artist's rendering © Dinghua...
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Whale songs overheard via fiber optic cable

Humpback whales in the ocean. © lindsay_imagery/ iStock Until now, if researchers...
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Marine witnesses of the Anthropocene

View of Beppu Bay in Japan. © Yokoyama et al. When did...
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Amazingly productive groundwater

Scientists taking groundwater samples. © Friedrich Schiller University Jena 99 percent of...
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Dinosaurs: career with an icy start?

Artist's rendering of a feathered dinosaur coping with cold conditions in the Triassic-Jurassic transition era. © Painting by Larry Felder ...
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Underground trapper discovered

A shoot with stunted white leaves but well developed pitchers, discovered in a cavity under a tree. © Martin Dančák ...
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Tropical mosquitoes conquer Germany

@ pixabay.com, 41330 (CC0 Creative Commons) Experts are sounding the alarm because more...
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Plenty of bioplastic residues in the compost

Samples from organic waste treatment plants in the laboratory. © University of Bayreuth/ Chr. Wißler ...
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Did viruses make complex life possible?

This comparison of the genomes of all known viruses that infect bacteria (left) and eukaryotes reveals the unique position of viruses infecting the Asgard...
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Primeval climate change by tectonic stretching

Researchers have studied volcanic strata in drill core collected as part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP). © dr Tom Gernon/University...
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Climate change: targeting the water cycle

Floods and other hydrological extremes plague the world. A research center is now being built in Potsdam where scientists will study how climate...
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Polar bears that can survive without pack ice

A polar bear family crosses glacial ice in south-east Greenland. ©NASA OMG More adaptable than expected: Researchers report that there is a possibly climate...
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“Trained teamwork” in plants

Test areas for investigating plant communities: The so-called Jena Experiment started in 2002 and is one of the longest-running biodiversity experiments in Europe. ...
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Cold-water corals: lessons from the past

Colony of cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa. © MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen Contemporary witnesses in the sea: In order...
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Does wind power disrupt local food webs?

Bat strike victim under a wind turbine. © Christian Voigt/ Leibniz-IZW Wind power is important for the energy transition, while collisions with rotors kill...
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Spider webs record microplastic pollution

"Eight-legged research assistants" have provided scientists at bus stops with test material to detect microplastic pollution in the air. © Daniel Schmidt/ University...
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