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Whales, their babble, and clan dialects.

The babbling of babies may be similar to the babble of a sperm whale calf as it struggles to repeat sounds it hears, but the slow adaptation of younger whales...

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Bees' immunity as they evolved.

The Bombus impatiens species of bumble is the common eastern humble bee of the United States and Canada.Bumble bee image; Credit: © Shutterstock Bumblebee genomes are less commercial that that...

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The wolf and the---domesticated wolf.

The beauty of a wild wolf can’t be denied and never has, by those who study them closely. They also keep our deer in hand, to preserve our forests and...

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Weapons important for stag beetle evolution.

Stag beetles fighting image; Credit: © Jana Goyens When you fly, the mass you carry is a payload, for which you must gain some advantage. A flying animal can be...

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How do we face up to ice loss?

February 25th was such a low for ice that we have waited almost a month to see if this Arctic ice will build, but it didn’t!The orange line on the...

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Britons prove their ancestry is diverse

Putting history right! Lost in myth, the many standing stones, here in Cornwall, extend history back to times when your ancestors can first be traced by the very genes that...

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