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How Necking Shaped the Giraffe

The private life of the African giant offers a remarkable view on…

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Illustration of an elephant trunk reaching toward an outstretched human hand.

Spark of Science: Joyce Poole

The elephant researcher tells her story

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How an Elephant Loses Its Tusks

Elephants without tusks are a response to the selective pressure of…

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A platypus isolated on a purple background, facing another platypus that has had a halftone pattern overlaid on it.

Why Hasn’t Evolution Made Another Platypus?

The debate over whether evolution is predictable or…

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Painting of a tuxedoed man in a jungle holding up his hand so a hummingbird can light on it.

Chasing James Bond’s Hummingbird

I venture to Cuba in search of the world’s smallest bird

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Painting of a moth: The outer edges of its wings are variegated shades of blue, purple, and pink.

The Quest to Mimic Nature’s Trickiest Colors

An artist struggles to reproduce the iridescence of the…

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Closeup of a hand holding a small robot that‘s been hand painted with blue stripes and has googly eyes glued on.

Animals Bow to Their Mechanical Overlords

Robots are infiltrating insect, fish, and bird communities…

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Illustration of a primeval-looking anglerfish with long, thin, sharp teeth, floating in black water.

Top 5 Real Wolves of Wall Street

Wheelers and dealers have run wild for millions of years

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Spark of Science: Jon Beckmann

The conservation ecologist discusses the plight of animals in a…

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An illustration of veins inside a transparent human body on a red background.

Why Do Jellyfish Glow?

A fluorescent protein helped researchers illuminate human cellular biology