Bronze Age mass grave reveals grisly massacre in which victims were likely eaten
This week, explore a violent episode in British prehistory, discover dark comets, ponder the prospect of mirror life, marvel ...
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Fossilized "alien plant" from 47 million years ago unlike anything alive today
FREE! This fossilized plant excavated in Green River Formation, Utah is entirely unlike anything living on Earth today. It ...
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Squirrels Are Displaying ‘Widespread Carnivorous Behavior’ for the First Time in a California Park, New Study Finds
The familiar rodents, known for eating nuts and seeds, have been spotted hunting and decapitating voles in a gruesome dietary ...
This Biodegradable Sponge Collects Loose Microplastics—But There's a Catch
In a paper for Science Advances, environmental biotechnologists at Wuhan University write that their sponge "can remove 98.0 ...
Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already be hurting animals that are grazers
Rising carbon dioxide levels in the air are making plants grow larger and faster, but diluting their nutritional content.
Murderous mice attack and kill nesting albatrosses on Midway Atoll − scientists struggle to stop this gruesome new behavior
House mice (Mus musculus) – the same kind that may be in your residence – have started to attack and kill albatrosses, eating them alive as they sit on their nests. I’m an ecologist who’s been ...
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Killer squirrels have developed taste for flesh — and voles are running for their lives
Ground squirrels have turned into carnivorous killers in a local park after vole numbers exploded in Contra Costa County, ...
Goulburn Post2d
Flesh-eating bug spread by mosquitoes now on NSW South Coast as holiday season begins
Flesh-eating bacteria that are carried by mosquitos and cause skin ulcers have been found in Batemans Bay on the NSW South ...
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Flesh-eating maggots halted all cattle imports from Mexico. Here's what it means for Louisiana.
Flesh-eating maggots found on the border of Mexico and Guatemala are the furthest north they've been in decades.