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Boning up on frogs' defenses

A least 11 African species can morph toe bones into claws full story»

Sensory organ differentiates male/female behavior in some mammals

Vomeronasal organ, not brain, determines sex-specific behavior full story»

Some like it hot: Deep-sea worms favor a fiery 45-55° c

Worms found to seek temperatures higher than those preferred by any other known species full story»

Evolution follows few possible paths to antibiotic resistance

Bacteria gain resistance from only a handful of 120 possible five-step mutational paths in a key gene full story»

Missing link crawls out of muck

Newly found species fills evolutionary gap between fish and land animals full story»

Harvard students build Dominican insect database

Class combines high technology, fieldwork to jump start national collection full story»
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