Submissions from phys.org

• Humpback whale songs provide insight to population changes

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  Published 20th Dec 2020
• Baby mice 'shut down' to survive extreme cold on the highest mountain tops

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  Published 20th Dec 2020
• Immune and circulatory systems are integrated in insects

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  Published 20th Dec 2020
• Researchers turn DNA detectives to aid rhino poaching prosecutions with forensic evidence

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  Published 17th Dec 2020
• Two smuggled Indonesian orangutans fly home from Thailand

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  Published 17th Dec 2020
• Honey bees fend off giant hornets with animal dung

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  Published 13th Dec 2020
• Warmer springs mean more offspring for prothonotary warblers

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  Published 13th Dec 2020
• One-two punch: Sea urchins stuck belly-up in low-oxygen hot water

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  Published 13th Dec 2020
• Carolina Sandhills Salamander: New species added to species-rich North Carolina

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  Published 13th Dec 2020
• Researchers investigate how marine protected areas affect the impacts of heatwaves on ocean ecosystems

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  Published 8th Dec 2020
• Scientists solve mystery of mass coho salmon deaths. The killer? A chemical from car tires

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  Published 7th Dec 2020
• Ecuador finds nest of huge, endangered sea turtle

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  Published 7th Dec 2020
• Even razor clams on sparsely populated Olympic Coast can't escape plastics, study finds

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  Published 2nd Dec 2020
• Mammoth move: loneliest elephant heads to Cambodia after Cher campaign

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  Published 2nd Dec 2020
• Mystery of Siberian freshwater seal food choice solved

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  Published 2nd Dec 2020
• Not just lizards—alligators can regrow their tails too

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  Published 29th Nov 2020
• Jaguars robust to climate extremes but lack of food threatens species

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  Published 29th Nov 2020
• How will sharks respond to climate change? It might depend on where they grew up

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  Published 29th Nov 2020
• The secret social lives of giant poisonous rats

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  Published 23rd Nov 2020
• Plant evolves to become less visible to humans

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  Published 23rd Nov 2020
• Researchers create first map of bee species around the globe

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  Published 20th Nov 2020
• Humpback whales have been spotted in a Kakadu river. So in a fight with a crocodile, who would win?

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  Published 18th Nov 2020
• The world should react with the same urgency to climate change as to the coronavirus crisis, the Red Cross said Tuesday, warning that global warming poses a greater threat than COVID-19.

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  Published 18th Nov 2020
• Why autumn is such a dangerous time for hedgehog mothers – and how to help them

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  Published 18th Nov 2020
• World's last known white giraffe gets GPS tracking device

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  Published 18th Nov 2020
• Migrating animals 'live fast and die young'

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  Published 18th Nov 2020
• Puzzled otters learn from each other

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  Published 13th Nov 2020
• Ending greenhouse gas emissions may not stop global warming: study

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  Published 13th Nov 2020
• Gentoo penguins are four species, not one, say scientists

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  Published 4th Nov 2020
• Humpback whales are adapting to warming water, but how much can they take?

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  Published 2nd Nov 2020
• Spring-run and fall-run Chinook salmon aren't as different as they seem

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  Published 30th Oct 2020
• Ice loss due to warming leads to warming due to ice loss: A vicious circle

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  Published 28th Oct 2020
• Mountain gorillas are good neighbours—up to a point

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  Published 28th Oct 2020
• Researcher proposes sea-level rise global observing system

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  Published 27th Oct 2020
• West Africa walkabout: The further adventures of the elephant brothers

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  Published 25th Oct 2020
• Hard to spot, but worth looking out for: 8 surprising tawny frogmouth facts

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  Published 21st Oct 2020
• Declines in shellfish species on rocky seashores match climate-driven changes. The waters of the Gulf of Maine are warming faster than oceans almost anywhere on Earth. And as the level of carbon dioxide rises in the atmosphere, it's absorbed by the oceans, causing pH levels to fall.

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  Published 20th Oct 2020
• Back in the pink: Hong Kong dolphins enjoy rare quiet as pandemic halts ferries

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  Published 16th Oct 2020
• Restoring 30% of the world's ecosystems in priority areas could stave off extinctions and absorb CO2

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  Published 15th Oct 2020
• Big payoff if Nature 'restored' in the right places

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  Published 15th Oct 2020
• Pollutants banned for over 30 years linger in UK rivers – our wildlife is the evidence

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  Published 12th Oct 2020
• Birds share food with less fortunate conspecifics

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  Published 12th Oct 2020
• Most nations failing to protect nature in COVID-19 pandemic recovery plans

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  Published 12th Oct 2020
• To protect nature's benefits, focus on people

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  Published 12th Oct 2020
• Japan seeks to boost catch limits of prized bluefin tuna

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  Published 7th Oct 2020
• Some bees are born curious while others are more single-minded

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  Published 7th Oct 2020
• National Zoo: Genetic tests reveal new baby panda is a boy

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  Published 6th Oct 2020
• Tracking sea turtle egg traffickers with GPS-enabled decoy eggs

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  Published 6th Oct 2020
• Pattern in whale songs predicts migration

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  Published 2nd Oct 2020
• Evidence of a cat recognizing and mimicking human behavior

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  Published 2nd Oct 2020
• The Arctic hasn't been this warm for 3 million years–and that foreshadows big changes for the rest of the planet

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  Published 1st Oct 2020
• Acropora spp. coral still thrives in the holdout refuge of Coral Gardens, Belize

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  Published 1st Oct 2020
• Baby boom at Taipei Zoo lightens pandemic blues

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  Published 30th Sep 2020
• China's air pollutant reduction success could make it tougher to control climate change

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  Published 29th Sep 2020
• Naked prehistoric monsters: Evidence that prehistoric flying reptiles probably had feathers refuted

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  Published 29th Sep 2020
• Salute the venerable ensign wasp, killing cockroaches for 25 million years

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  Published 29th Sep 2020
• Tree rings show scale of Arctic pollution is worse than previously thought

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  Published 25th Sep 2020
• Landmark release sees bilbies return to Sturt National Park in NSW

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  Published 25th Sep 2020
• Experts lead research into impact of climate change on rainforest elephants

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  Published 25th Sep 2020
• These birds communicate by fluttering their feathers—and they have different accents

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  Published 23rd Sep 2020
• Warming temperatures are driving Arctic greening

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  Published 23rd Sep 2020
• In Ecuador, pair of Andean condors revives hope for species' survival

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  Published 23rd Sep 2020
• Australian rescuers save 25 of 270 stranded whales so far

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  Published 22nd Sep 2020
• Rescuers race to save 180 stranded whales in Australia

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  Published 22nd Sep 2020
• Like humans, chimpanzees can suffer for life if orphaned before adulthood

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  Published 21st Sep 2020
• Two endangered Javan rhino calves spotted in Indonesian park

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  Published 21st Sep 2020
• Chimpanzees in volatile habitats evolved to behave more flexibly

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  Published 18th Sep 2020
• Home of 'Asian unicorn' becomes nature reserve in Vietnam

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  Published 17th Sep 2020
• Arctic transitioning to a new climate state

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  Published 15th Sep 2020
• The first step to conserving the Great Barrier Reef is understanding what lives there

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  Published 15th Sep 2020
• Climate change recasts the insect communities of the Arctic

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  Published 13th Sep 2020
• Humpback whales stray up tropical Aussie river

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  Published 13th Sep 2020
• Loss of sea otters accelerating the effects of climate change

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  Published 11th Sep 2020
• New tracking technology will help fight rhino poaching in Namibia

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  Published 10th Sep 2020
• Baboon matriarchs enjoy less stress

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  Published 10th Sep 2020
• New subspecies of the rarest Palaearctic butterfly found in the Arctic Circle of Yakutia

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  Published 9th Sep 2020
• Gulls pay attention to human eyes

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  Published 9th Sep 2020
• 'Wrong-way' migrations stop shellfish from escaping ocean warming

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  Published 8th Sep 2020
• In EU, 1 in 8 deaths linked to pollution: report

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  Published 8th Sep 2020
• Changing what we eat could offset years of climate-warming emissions, new analysis finds

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  Published 8th Sep 2020
• Acorn woodpeckers wage days-long battles over vacant territories, radio tag data show

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  Published 8th Sep 2020
• Australia likely to experience up to 35% more El Niños under new projections

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  Published 4th Sep 2020
• Scientists capture rare footage of mother skink fighting a deadly brown snake to protect her babies

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  Published 4th Sep 2020
• Pakistan's only Asian elephant prepared for new home

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  Published 4th Sep 2020
• Aviation contributes 3.5% to the drivers of climate change that stem from humans

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  Published 4th Sep 2020
• Red fox displaces Arctic fox thanks to littering

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  Published 3rd Sep 2020
• Notice me! Neglected for over a century, Black Sea spider crab re-described

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  Published 3rd Sep 2020
• Common species mirror rare animals' response to global change

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  Published 3rd Sep 2020
• Beavers appear to help the growth of brown trout in South America, study finds

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  Published 3rd Sep 2020
• Newly hatched Florida sea turtles are consuming dangerous quantities of floating plastic

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  Published 1st Sep 2020
• Following African elephant trails to approach conservation differently

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  Published 1st Sep 2020
• Discovery of an ancient dog species may teach us about human vocalization

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  Published 1st Sep 2020
• 770-pound crocodile caught at Outback tourist destination

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  Published 31st Aug 2020
• Habitats for endangered green sea turtles will be federally protected in Florida

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  Published 30th Aug 2020
• Here be methane: Scientists investigate the origins of a gaping permafrost crater

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  Published 30th Aug 2020
• Swiss to ban foreign trophy hunters from killing Alpine ibex

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  Published 30th Aug 2020
• The northern quoll: An amazingly versatile survivor?

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  Published 30th Aug 2020
• Galapagos: How to protect the islands' amazing marine life from huge Chinese fishing fleets

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  Published 27th Aug 2020
• Native desert bighorn sheep in ecologically intact areas are less vulnerable to climate change

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  Published 27th Aug 2020
• For survival, dolphins share fish and a little more

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  Published 26th Aug 2020
• Researcher uses computer modeling to predict reef health

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  Published 26th Aug 2020