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Topic: Animal Science

Fruit fly, Drosophila Melanogaster, on a red apple surface (Getty Images/Andreas Häuslbetz)

Bugs with "Kevin Bacon" gene are cooler

Rae Hodge
White Sussex chicken among the flowers (Getty Images/daphnusia)

Study finds chickens may blush

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Damaged Books (Getty Images/crPrin)

Going gluten-free could fight bookworms

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Banded mongoose group approaching with curiosity (Mungos mungo) (Getty Images/Anup Shah)

Mongoose warfare: Rikki Tikki's revenge

Rae Hodge
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Plainfin Midshipman (Getty Images/Joseph Dreimiller)

Inside the brains of "singing" fish

Rae Hodge
A Matabele ant tends to the wound of a fellow ant whose legs were bitten off in a fight with termites. (Erik Frank/University of Wuerzburg)

Putting the "ant" in antibiotics

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Kangaroos running (Getty Images/slowmotiongli)

Unleash the kangaroos, New Hampshire!

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During quiet sleep, octopus laqueus appears white and motionless. This quiet sleep is punctuated by bursts of sleep that show wake-like activity (active sleep) roughly every hour. (Keishu Asada / Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

Do octopuses dream of electric eels?

Rae Hodge
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