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Adult Periodical Cicada Credit: Ed Reschke via Getty Images

Swarming cicadas, stock traders, and the wisdom of the crowd

Figure 1. (A) Reconstructed Caudipteryx © Christophe Hendrickx. Used under the terms of the Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 3.0). Licensing details: [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en]. (B) Robopteryx, imitating the morphology of Caudipteryx, positioned in front of a grasshopper in the field (marked by a red arrow). (C) Grasshopper tested in the experiments.

Feathered Dinosaurs’ Surprising Purpose: Scaring, Not Flying

Skeleton at the site in Jubuicabeira II, Brazil.

Syphilis-like diseases were already widespread in America before the arrival of Columbus

The Welsh countryside near the Coed Cochion Quarry, where the fossils were found. Picture: Anthony Clarke

Key moment in the evolution of life on Earth captured in fossils

An X-ray reconstruction of a 32-million-year-old fossil kelp holdfast colored to show the base (orange), holdfast (yellow) and the bivalve shell to which it attached (blue).

Pacific kelp forests are far older that we thought

predator worms swimming under water

Ancient Predator Fossils Unearthed in Greenland

Recent studies show that many lemurs do not live individually, but in pairs of females and males. (Image: istock.com/Goddard_Photography)

Early primates likely lived in pairs

Artist illustration of Nanotyrannus attacking a juvenile T. rex.

“Juvenile T. rex” fossils are a distinct species of small tyrannosaur

Prehistoric people are attacking an elephant

People, not the climate, caused the decline of the giant mammals

A Neanderthals having coffee early in the morning

Were Neanderthals morning people ?

The fossil that was originally interpreted to be a plant, but researchers have now discovered is the inside of the shell of a baby turtle.

It turns out, this fossil plant is really a fossil baby turtle

Bat teeth

Fruit, nectar, bugs and blood: How bat teeth and jaws evolved for a diverse dinnertime

Velvet worm

Velvet Worm slime could inspire sustainable synthetic materials

Chordodes horse hairworms use mantids as definitive hosts. After maturing in the mantids, they manipulate their hosts to enter water bodies where the parasites reproduce.

Stolen genes allow parasitic control of behavior

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