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Topic: Biology (page 2)

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

Rae Hodge
A Chinstrap penguin keeps watch over the colony from his prominent look-out spot on an Antarctic rock. (Getty Images/Fiona McAllister Photography)

These penguins sleep for mere seconds

Matthew Rozsa
Serotine bat (Alona Shulenko, CC BY-SA)

These bat penises are too long for sex

Matthew Rozsa
Brussels Sprouts (Getty Images/Henrik Sorensen)

Why Brussels sprouts taste better now

Ashlie D. Stevens
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African elephant (Loxodonta africana) small group of elephants drinking at a waterhole in Mashatu game reserve, Botswana, Africa. (Sergi Reboredo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Elephants may have names for each other

Rae Hodge
Bacteriophage infecting bacterium (Getty Images/Design Cells)

Vampire viruses prey on other viruses

Ivan Erill - The Conversation
Sea stars on ocean floor (Getty Images/Patrick J. Endres)

Starfish are walking heads: Study

Matthew Rozsa
Tobacco hornworm caterpillar with wasp pupae on back (Getty Images/Ed Reschke)

Parasites: Life's greatest success story

Troy Farah
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Research Vessel Falkor (too) (Schmidt Ocean Institute)

Treasure trove of "mermaid purses"

Ashley Balzer
Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431-1477) posthumously dubbed Vlad the Impaler, Voivode of Wallachia (1456-1462). (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dracula may have wept blood: study

Rae Hodge
Fruit fly (Drosophila Melanogaster) on a leaf (Getty Images/janeff)

Scientists turn on "virgin birth" in fly

Nicole Karlis
Microbes in space, illustration (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Will we know we've found aliens?

Nicole Karlis
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Plastic pollution in the ocean (Getty Images)

Plastic-eating microbes found in Alps

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/kosmos111)

Genetically altered mosquito plan nixed

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
Puppy And Kitten Cuddling (Getty Images / Alicea Love / EyeEm)

How domestication changes animal genes

Matthew Rozsa
An adult elephant sprays water from its trunk after taking a drink in a watering hole. (National Geographic for Disney/Robbie Labanowski)

For elephants, "family is everything"

Matthew Rozsa
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Iceberg melting in Disko Bay in Greenland (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

Greenland's water ecosystem being remade

Avery Schuyler Nunn - Grist
Chain of amino acid or bio molecules called protein (Getty Images/Christoph Burgstedt)

The alphabet soup of ancient life

Troy Farah
Couple in bed holding hands passionately (Getty Images/Sadeugra)

Why did humans evolve orgasms?

Troy Farah
Deep-sea Fluorescent Illuminated Microorganisms (Getty Images/remotevfx)

Meet the life that lives without sun

Troy Farah
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Bonobo babies play with a mirror (Getty Images/ANDREYGUDKOV)

8 animals who pass the "mirror test"

Nicole Karlis
Prison cells (Getty Images/Hitoshi Nishimura)

Criminology stirs biology's racist past

Michael Schulson - Undark
Destruction of a cancer cell (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The future is "nanomedicine"

Morteza Mahmoudi - The Conversation
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | Sperm under a microscope (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The regretful discoverer of sperm

Matthew Rozsa
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