Ancient dinosaur dung preserves feathers from 66 million years ago
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Moonlight shapes nightjar activity, temperature and breeding cycles
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Sunlight on your skin today was forged when Neanderthals roamed Earth
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Denisovans were already hybrids when they interbred with our ancestors
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Scientists froze the world's oldest animal without knowing it had lived 507 years
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Escaped farm pigs bred with wild boars near Fukushima, but their genes are vanishing fast
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Two swans introduced to Michigan a century ago became an ecological crisis of 17,520 birds
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Shrew brains shrink in winter, while their snouts grow larger
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DNA clock predicts crown-of-thorns seastar age within four months
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Wolf digestion makes blueberry seeds sprout faster and more reliably
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Pet parrots learned to video call each other and picked up new tricks from their screen friends
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Octopuses may experience a dream-like sleep stage with rapid color shifts
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