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Extreme Animal Relationships | Earth Unplugged

There are a surprising number of animals that benefit from working together but how and why do they do it? Subscribe to Earth Unplugged for more amazing animal videos – http://bit.ly/SubscribeToEarthUnplugged Maddie Moate explains the three types of symbiotic relationship … Continue reading

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We Were Wrong About Wolves and Wolf Packs This Whole Time

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about about something important in regards to wolves Article: https://sciencenorway.no/ulv/wolf-pac… Papers: https://brage.inn.no/inn-xmlui/handle… https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/h… https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/vi… https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/vi… https://wolf.org/wp-content/uploads/2… https://books.google.no/books?id=_mXH… https://phys.org/news/2021-04-wolf-do… Images: L. David Mech – Wolves of Isle … Continue reading

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Why Some DNA Is Selfish

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Meet Our Nitrogen-Breathing Bacterial Relative

[…] Oxygen is pretty great stuff, but this recently discovered organism couldn’t care less about oxygen. It breathes nitrogen and may offer a window into how the types of cells in OUR bodies may have evolved billions of years ago. … Continue reading

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Blend up a hydra, and its cells will coalesce back into a full creature. How? | Aeon

A relative of jellyfish, the rice-sized freshwater creatures known as hydra are, at first glance, rather basic – all tentacles and mouth, with lives dedicated to nabbing passing prey. But, as scientists have gradually been discovering over centuries, these simple … Continue reading

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Why Vultures Don’t Get Sick When Eating Dead and Rotting Things

[…] In this video: In the video today we’re looking at why vultures can happily eat various dead and rotting things, even when said flesh is disease ridden, all without apparent negative effect on themselves. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.p… … Continue reading

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Homochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules

[…] Molecules of biological origin always have a fixed handedness or chirality. For example you only ever see right handed sugars and left handed amino acids in nature. But why? Credits: Meteorite image – Art Bromage – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… RNA and … Continue reading

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Homochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules

Molecules of biological origin always have a fixed handedness or chirality. For example you only ever see right handed sugars and left handed amino acids in nature. But why? Credits: Meteorite image – Art Bromage – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… RNA and DNA … Continue reading

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The Emergence of a New Queen Bee | Medium

Science Uncovered Articles and excerpts from Oxford University Press that…   Did you know that the daughters of a queen bee engage in a deadly fight for succession? To celebrate World Bee Day on May 20th this year, read an … Continue reading

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The Otherworldly Sounds of Ice | Kottke

The holes drilled into Arctic, Antarctic, and glacial ice to harvest ice cores can be up to 2 miles deep. One of my all-time favorite sounds is created by dropping ice down into one of these holes — it makes … Continue reading

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