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Rainbowfish find a way to survive in Australia’s scorching desert: ‘Life finds a way’
A trip into central Australia involves packing your 4WD to the brim with survival gear, water and food. Yet fish have managed to persist...
For millions of years, moths and bats have been fighting over evolutionary territory – and we’re still discovering their tricks
There aren’t many better examples of two species embroiled in an intense struggle for survival than bats and moths. These two animals are the...
Charles Darwin described how expressions evolved 150 years before modern psychology
Was Charles Darwin a one-hit wonder? According to scientists who take a gene’s-eye view of evolution, the 19th-century English naturalist contributed one crucial idea...
Finding a rare fossilized comb jelly reveals new gaps in the fossil record
They look like jellyfish but they aren’t. They seem inoffensive but are efficient predators — occasionally, they even eat fish. They are gelatinous and...
Zinc-infused proteins are the secret that allows scorpions, spiders and ants to puncture tough skin
The big idea
Many small animals grow their teeth, claws and other “tools” out of materials that are filled with zinc, bromine and manganese, reaching...
