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An American white pelican flies over the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge, a major stop for birds on the Pacific Flyway, on June 23, 2006, near Calipatria, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Pelicans Prefer Native Fish At Popular Sport-Fishing Reservoir

Fish-eating pelicans at a reservoir in Utah have been found to prefer local chubs and suckers to cutthroat trout.
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The Endurance22 Expedition uncovered the wreckage of the Endurance, the ship that carried a crew of explorers which attempted the first land crossing of Antarctica. In 1915, the ship was cornered within dense pack ice in the Weddell Sea, forcing the 28-member crew to abandon the Endurance for a months-long escape. Pictured, the taffrail and ship’s wheel, aft well deck. (Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust/National Geographic)

Crew Successfully Completes ‘World’s Most Challenging Shipwreck Search’

Photos captured by the Antarctic expedition show incredible detail for a shipwreck over 100 years old.
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Aerial view of the Northern Amazon on June 11, 2007, in Peru. The pristine forest has borne the impact of roads into the forest and roadside urbanization. The Amazon is under threat from infrastructure development in Peru. (Brent Stirton/Getty Images)

Death Of A Rainforest: Amazon Near Tipping Point Of Transitioning To Savanna, Study Says

Three-quarters of the rainforest is currently at risk of transitioning.
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Researchers have found that female brown ear ticks (Rhipicephalus appendiculatus) have a protein in their saliva that eliminates the sensation of pain and itching, leaving their victims unaware of their bite. Pictured is a female (left) and male (right) brown ear tick. (Alan R. Walker/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Drug Made From Tick Saliva Could Ease Itching And Chronic Pain

The Votucalis protein may lead to a replacement for addictive opioid pain-relievers.
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The bdelloid rotifer is a tiny freshwater creature that can be found around the world. It is about the thickness of a piece of paper or just a hair larger. (Soil Cryology Laboratory)

24,000-Year-Old Animal Found Alive, Well And Ready To Reproduce

For the past 24,000 years, the multicellular microorganism had been snoozing in Siberian permafrost.
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European researchers discovered that pigs' barks, grunts and other vocalizations reveal emotions that can be monitored by farmers to improve production. (Elodie Briefer)

Pig Grunts, Barks And Squeals Reveal A Range Of Emotions

Researchers have developed an algorithm that “decodes” pigs’ vocalizations.
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Two men chase away a swarm of desert locusts early in the morning, on May 21, 2020, in Samburu County, Kenya. Trillions of locusts swarmed across parts of Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, following an earlier infestation in February. (Fredrik Lerneryd/Getty Images)

Why Locusts Form Destructive Swarms

Researchers discover what causes solitary, harmless insects to radically change their behavior and form huge, migrating swarms.
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Fish make sounds to communicate with each other on everything from food and sex to territory. Researchers are creating a database of these sounds, which may be able to identify the fishes making them. (Kieran Cox)

Sounds Fishy: New Website Offers Repository Of Fish Sounds From Around The World

In the future, scientists and fishers may use underwater microphones to identify the fish they are looking for.
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A scanned image of key device 41, a lesser-known successor to the Enigma machine that was used by a small number of people working for Germany's intelligence services toward the end of World War II. (Fraunhofer IIS/Zenger)

VIDEO: WWII Enigma Machine, Other Encryption Devices Dating Back To 1870 Scanned And Modeled

The Deutsches Museum in Germany is working to unveil the secrets of the encryption devices.
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Noble false widow spiders (Steatoda nobilis) originated in the Madeira and Canary archipelagos but have spread to the British Isles and North America. Using a powerful neurotoxin, they paralyze their prey to feed on them. Their bite can be harmful to humans and spreads antibiotic-resistant bacteria. (NUI Galway)

Come Into My Parlor: Noble False Widow Spider Observed Preying On Bats

An invasive species of spider is targeting protected native species in the British Isles.
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