Posts Tagged ‘Animals’
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Strange beasts—including a giant rat, a lungless worm, and a vegetarian spider—dominated National Geographic News’s most popular new-species coverage of 2009. |
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The distinctive T-shaped heads of hammerhead sharks give the predators human-like stereo vision and depth perception, helping the sharks track speedy prey, a new study says. |
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The “lounge lizard” lifestyle helped a prehistoric goat adjust its growth and metabolism during lean times—but its energy-saving methods may have spelled its ultimate doom, a new study says. |
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Solving a longstanding puzzle among bird experts, scientists have found that the sharp, violin-like sounds of a South American songbird come not from the beak but from a suite of specially evolved, vibrating feathers. With video. |
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