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Comb Jellies may have been the first animals ever

The debate isn't over, but a comprehensive gene study suggests marine jellyfish were the first creatures to diverge. This distinction is commonly attributed to sponges.

Bacterial communities take turns to eat when food becomes scarce

Aww, they have tiny economic agreements, ain't that cute?

Puffins that migrate together make more chicks

Puffins mate for life but when they also travel together, they become better parents.

Zooplankton are armed to the teeth with spears and ballistic weapons, electron photography shows

+10 attack, -3 inventory space.

A reef-killing starfish's pheromones could be harnessed to exterminate them— and help the reefs!

The starfish are worse for the reefs than bleaching and disease combined.

Fanged blenny 'heroin'-like venom could be the next super-painkiller

Tiny fish, big fangs, huge possibilities.

Immortal cells could usher in the age of plentiful, artificial blood for transfusions

Your body probably won't even tell the difference.

Genetic 'typos' may be a more powerful driver of cancer in humans than environmental factors

Worrying.

If you like having sex, you should thank pathogens for making it possible

#wingmen.

Wherever humans go, mice go too -- since forever

The mouse in the house has been with us for 15,000 years.

New ginger species discovered in African mountains

Who knows what other plants or medicines await discovery in Africa?

Couple donates their $10 million insect collection to Arizona University

A heartwarming story of two brilliant and passionate researchers.

Eating fruit may have given primates their big brains, paving the way for social structures

Chow down.

Laziness could save a fish’s life: a case for establishing marine reserves

Evolution causes these fish to move less so they have a better chance of survival.

What does gestural communication of great apes tell us about human language?

Our language is one of the features that define us as human beings and distance us from all other animals.

This YouTube time-lapse of cellular division in action will have you hitting replay again and again

Enjoy!

If stem cells don't grow as you want them to, just add a dash of parsley-husk scaffolding

To be fair it works with other plants too, but I was shooting for a culinary title.

Tree-on-a-chip mimics passive pumping mechanism found in plants and trees

MIT found an elegant solution to a complex problem.

Insect courtship behavior trapped in 100-million-year-old amber

It's Romeo and Juliet on steroids, with geology.

Deep burial in sub-seafloor sediments seems to 'freeze' microorganism evolution

*pause*

Researchers find the oldest ever crocodile eggs

Crocs emerged alongside the early dinosaurs.

Why we shouldn't bring back the mammoth and other extinct animals

Ice Age Park would be cool, but...

#FossilFriday: "Missing link" of sharks discovered

CT scanning shark fossil reveals their origins.

These fish have evolved the ability to leap onto land -- to avoid being eaten

These fish are quite comfortable out of water.

How cobras developed their devastating flesh-eating venom

The cobra developed a crippling venom -- and it wanted the world to know.

Spiders eat up to 800 million tons of insects and pests a year -- much more than humanity

Spiders eat much more than humans.

World's oldest plant-like fossils indicate we might have to rethink emergence of multicellular life

We might have to recalibrate the tree of life.

A common tree frog has kept a secret for a long time— it glows!

It's the first frog known to be fluorescent.

Cells nudge each other with proteins when moving to keep your body in one piece

Knowing how cells coordinate could let us improve healing speeds and fight cancers.

Green ice spotted in Antarctica's Ross Sea triggers new expedition for April

An effect of warming climate, or just a string of coincidences?

New hydrogel can glue retina back into eye

This could revolutionize eye surgery!

Researchers complete 30% of the synthetic yeast chromosome -- synthetic life is just around the corner

Immense potential in a small cell.

Fungus-derived molecule enables axon regrowth -- potentially treating brain and spinal chord injuries

Broken axons are like a broken router -- no connection.

Celebrating women scientists -- Maria Sibylla Merian, a pioneer in both art and science

An artist and naturalist, a woman who braved a wild continent and tropical diseases for her passion and left behind remarkable works.

New paper explains why predatory dinosaurs walked on two feet while mammals stayed on all fours

It's all about the tail.

Woolly mammoths suffered genomic meltdown right before extinction

They were cuter and silkier... but less adapted to a harsh environment.

When the octopus and squid lost their shells

Squishy animals like the octopus or squid used to have hard internal shells up until 100 million years ago.

Researchers might have just found the oldest creatures in history

Four billion years. Let that sink in for a moment.

Arctic "Doomsday Seed Vault" gets 50,000 new deposits

It's basically a huge fridge for seeds -- and it just got bigger.

Football-playing bees exhibit complex learning

Researchers have trained bumblebees to score goals using a mini-ball.

Mighty migrations: how technology is changing what we know

The stories of three animals embarking on incredible journeys.

Bizarre life forms found living in Mexican crystals

Geologists have made a shocking discovery in a crystal-rich cave in Mexico.

New study could topple our beliefs about the origins of handedness

We all have our preferred hand -- but why?

World's rarest boa rediscovered after 64 years

Locals often kill these snakes, although they're not dangerous for humans.

Ocean acidification may be even worse for corals than previously thought

Sorry, no good news.

Forget eggs: This terrifying 250-million-year-old dinosaur gave birth to live babies

A remarkable 'terrible-headed lizard' fossil found in China shows an embryo inside the mother -- a clear evidence that some dinosaurs were giving birth to live babies.

A bunch of artificial cells just passed the Turing Test

Scientists have built cells that are not living but are so life-like that other cells can communicate with them.

Newly discovered 'escape artist' gecko species evades predators by shedding its scales

When a predator such as a snake strikes the gecko, it's not dinner he's getting but a mouthful of scales.

Carnivorous plants all over the world used convergent evolution to start eating flesh

This means being carnivores must have been an excellent solution for these plants.

Condomless, reversible male contraceptive treatment shows its worth in rhesus monkey trial

If everything goes smoothly, we might see it available in 2018.

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