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October 21, 2015

Sickly coral reefs fail the smell test

Young corals and fish in the Pacific Ocean can smell a bad neighborhood.

October 21, 2015

Weirdest worm ever? Clawed creature finds its family tree

When researchers first discovered the fossil worm Hallucigenia in the 1970s, they were so perplexed they identified its head as its tail and its legs as its spines

October 21, 2015

Baby shark hangout discovered off the Azores

Young sharks have a nursery school of sorts, and it's in the central North Atlantic, new research finds

October 21, 2015

This extreme Antarctic insect has the tiniest genome

The Antarctic midge is a simple insect: no wings, a slender black body and an adult life span of not much more than a week

October 21, 2015

Deer numbers decline in some hunting areas

So you're a member of a Louisiana deer-hunting club, and your harvest numbers are down. You and your lease mates used to see deer on just about every hunt, but now you're excited if you run across a decent-sized track.

October 21, 2015

Why some chimps are smarter than others

Chimpanzees don't just get their smarts by aping others chimps, like humans, inherit a significant amount of their intelligence from their parents, new research reveals

October 21, 2015

Too much reality: Wildlife webcams expose viewers to disturbing, grittier side of nature

Wildlife webcam operators around the world are grappling with a problem: Viewers don't want to see any harm come to critters they've grown to love.

October 21, 2015

Buffalo Zoo's new Indian rhino calf conceived from now-dead Cincinnati rhino's sperm

The Cincinnati Zoo says a female Indian rhino calf born recently in New York was produced by artificial insemination using sperm from a now-dead Cincinnati rhino.

October 21, 2015

Rare harpy eagles -- 'unicorn' of the Amazon rainforest -- caught on camera

A harpy eagle and her chicks were caught on camera by wildlife photographers.

October 21, 2015

Species of snake lost for nearly 80 years found on Mexican island

The Clarion nightsnake was found again on one of the Revillagigedo Islands, over 400 miles off Mexico's Pacific coast.