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Researchers have discovered the genetic region responsible for blackberries' deployment of a type of pointy self-protection: ...

Wolves in the Netherlands mainly feed on wild animals such as wild boar and red and roe deer. But in areas such as Drenthe ...

Researchers from the University of Rochester and the University of Maryland have published a study that examines whether and ...

Bermuda's Walsingham cave system harbors a wide diversity of cave-dwelling animals not found anywhere else in the world. Now, ...

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