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Which animals can count and understand simple math?

The idea of an animal that can count or do math might sound like something out of a viral news…

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Are cats the only animals that purr?

There’s plenty of things to love about cats, and purring is definitely one of them. Cat owners can always tell…

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Which animals can hold their breath underwater the longest?

Getting enough oxygen in the water can be hard work. While fish and many other aquatic animals take air directly…

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Animals Expend 76,000 Gigajoules of Energy Sculpting Our Planet Every Year

See How Animals Sculpt the Planet This tally of animals’ effect on Earth’s geology, equivalent to that of thousands of…

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Why Some Animals Live for Days and Others Live for Decades

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. In the animal kingdom lifespans can stretch from mere hours…

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Why are tropical animals so colorful?

​​From the striking rainbow colors of parrots in the rainforest to the brilliant flashes of yellows, oranges and blues in…

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Lake Natron: The caustic, blood-red lake in Tanzania that turns animals to ‘stone’

QUICK FACTS Name: Lake Natron Location: Northern Tanzania Coordinates: -2.332009081285983, 36.03373896004504 Why it’s incredible: The lake is so alkaline, it…

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Pelican eel: The midnight zone ‘gulper’ with a giant mouth to swallow animals bigger than itself

QUICK FACTS Name: Pelican eel (Eurypharynx pelecanoides) Where it lives: In tropical and temperate regions of the deep ocean, at…

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Flash floods sweep through vital sanctuary for Australian animals

A Tasmanian devil is carried to safety by a ranger amid flooding at the Aussie Ark sanctuary Aussie Ark Conservation…

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COMEDY

'[He] trusted me and I him': Beautiful bobcat shows up in person's yard one day, immediately senses his kindness and love for animals, and becomes his regularly visiting feline friend

We love big cats. We love big cats so much it’s not even funny. We want to pet one. We…

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