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Of everything interesting about sharks, their behavior is the most fascinating.  Sharks experience sight, touch, taste, smell, sound and other senses completely different from humans.  Most creatures of the sea are somewhat the same, but sharks are known to be relatively different in all their abilities, besides swimming and breathing.  It has been found that sharks cannot smell from [...]

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The strain, a variant of  salmonella, which is named St313.  It was decoded by researchers from Welcome Trust Sanger Institute and researchers from Kenya and Malawi. Most salmonella bacteria cause diarrhea and barely cause death,  but this one caused death in one of four cases among children and vulnerable adults in some African locations, the [...]

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The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has announced a report revealing that the last remaining population of Siberian tigers has likely declined significantly due to the rising tide of poaching and habitat loss. Click here to read more.
It is important that we take care of the environment and the animals in it and not destroy the [...]

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A new study has looked farther into the “random”, “incorrect”, “regulated error” of cells using different amino acids to protect certain proteins. At first, the placement of these amino acids was thought to random errors. It turns out, though, that cells are protecting their proteins with the methionine. The study conducted found that up to [...]

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Tiny bugs can be as smart, or even smarter than bigger animals. It is said in the original post, research  shows how insects are able of acting some  unique ways compared to larger animals. It is also said that honeybees can count, categorize similar objects like dogs or human faces, understand things that are the same [...]

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Omar Tonsi Eldakar of the University of Arizona’s Arizona Research Laboratories conducted a study of what type of male that female water striders mate with. The experiment showed that the female water striders mated more with subtle males rather than the sexually aggressive males.
This new finding is exactly the opposite of what Eldakar from Binghamton [...]

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Deserts already have few plants, but it is now getting harder for plants to live in deserts. So deserts may become more sparse because plants are facing new challenges. Nitrogen is one of the main things keeping biological activity from occurring in arid deserts. Researchers have found a mechanism that balances the nitrogen in deserts. As [...]

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A new creature, the Bosavi woolly rat, was recently found in an extinct volcano called Mount Bosavi. This is a volcano has a very huge crater. It is 2 ½ miles wide topped with walls that are close to a half miles high. It has trapped these new spices of rats there. The Bosavi woolly [...]

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