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A cougar kitten with a mule deer in its mouth

Life

Talk radio puts pumas off their meals so they may kill more deer

The sound of people’s voices reduces pumas’ feeding time and makes them kill more deer, showing the wide-reaching effect of human activity

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A stream running through a grassland with a beaver dam across it

Earth

Beaver dams keeps streams cool and protect sensitive fish

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A dusky rabbitfish

Life

Tiny invasive sea creatures hitch a ride in rabbitfish guts

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A stuffed thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger

Life

Odds that Tasmanian tigers are still alive are 1 in 1.6 trillion

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Cleaner fish that keep farmed salmon healthy at risk of wipe-out

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Cleaner fish that keep farmed salmon healthy at risk of wipe-out

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Spiders eat more prey than humans

Life

Spiders eat twice as much animal prey as humans do in a year

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Woolly mammoth

Life

Can we grow woolly mammoths in the lab? George Church hopes so

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Boat on dried-up lake floor

Life

Massive lake drained for hydropower leaves dry bed and no fish

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Some of the turfwinkle snails in their natural habitat

Earth

Ocean acidification may be good for thriving marine snails

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A close-up of a group of ants and larvae

Life

Harvester ants farm by planting seeds to eat once they germinate

The ants’ unusual trick lets them snack on seeds that are too big from them to crack. They just let the seeds crack themselves

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Humans

Australia’s oldest working scientist speaks about his life

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Earth

Baby turtles leave behind fleeting oases on beach dune deserts

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Life

New Zealand is the first country to wipe out invasive butterfly

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Life

Hundreds of deep-sea vents found spewing methane off US coast

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