Insects play a critical role in ecosystems but, because they are so rarely preserved as fossils, it’s hard to study their roles from habitats millions of years old. But fossilized tree resin can occasionally preserve an insect within its amber, freezing a moment in time. Most rare of all is when the moment in amber […]

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Steven Maa was worried his beloved dog wouldn’t survive the night in the Rocky Mountains. He was driving cross-country to California from New Jersey to start a new job on the West Coast when he stopped for some skiing in Montezuma, Colorado on Dec. 28. He left his dog Rocky with a local pet sitter, […]

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Older male whales are more successful at mating than their younger rivals because they are better singers, suggests new research. The older singing whales are increasingly successful at birthing offspring compared to younger males, with the findings suggesting that the humpbacks may need time to learn and refine their singing and competitive tactics—giving experienced males […]

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A snow plow driver was crawling through near-white out conditions on Long Island when he saw something strange. Kenny McGowan has had to stop his snow plow in the past for all manner of hidden obstacles and hazards, from buried cars to fallen branches. Instead, two slight figures were running along the asphalt/ice/snow/salt poutine that […]

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