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October 20, 2015

Beaver butts emit goo used in vanilla flavored foods

Next time you pick up a vanilla candy, think twice. A chemical compound used in vanilla flavored foods and scents comes from the butt of a beaver.

October 20, 2015

First face? Prehistoric fish was a jawdropper

The earliest known species with what we would recognize as a face was an armored, beady-eyed prehistoric fish, according to a new paper in the journal Nature.

October 20, 2015

Blue-footed boobies suddenly expand range in California

High-diving seabirds known as blue-footed boobies have suddenly expanded their range in California.

October 20, 2015

It's a shark eat shark world, photo reveals

Here’s an oceanic enigma: What’s the word for a bait fish stuffed inside a dogfish shark, stuffed inside a sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus)?

October 20, 2015

Hey Flipper! Dolphins call each other by name

Dolphins call to each other using distinctive whistles that serve as names, new research suggests

October 20, 2015

Biologists race to solve mysterious mass animal deaths in Florida lagoon

At least 111 manatees, 300 pelicans, and 46 dolphins — emaciated to the point of skin and bones — were all found dead in America’s most biologically diverse estuary.

October 20, 2015

Death of hundreds of baby right whales continues to puzzle scientists

Scientists still don't know why hundreds of baby southern right whales are turning up dead around Patagonia, a decade after observers first saw signs of the worst die-off on record for the species.

October 20, 2015

Bugged by the billions: East Coast about to see power of big numbers in coming cicada invasion

Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will creep out of the ground and overrun parts of the East Coast.

October 20, 2015

Possible invasion of air-breathing, predatory fish has NYC officials on alert

The state's Department of Environmental Conservation is asking fishermen in the Harlem Meer to be on the lookout for the northern snakehead fish, a predatory creature native to Asia.

October 20, 2015

Live exotic creatures sold for hundreds of thousands, DA says

Thousands of living beings worth half a million bucks were stripped from their homeland in China and Australia, shipped halfway around the world and sold in the U.S., the district attorney alleged Monday.