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Wombat basher	7	14 Mar 2025 7:50 p.m. PST
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What Antlions And ‘Star Wars’ Have In Common	1	21 Nov 2024 10:29 p.m. PST
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Dramatic fossil shows pugnacious mammal attacking a dinosaur	3	26 May 2024 10:47 p.m. PST
Bottlenose Dolphins Somehow Even Cooler Than We	1	09 May 2024 10:52 p.m. PST
Eating Live Geckos Not Advised	1	03 Apr 2024 6:35 p.m. PST
Using Bugs As Weapons	1	24 Mar 2024 9:33 p.m. PST
From The Caturday Files	1	16 Feb 2024 11:09 p.m. PST
Wags of wellness: Dogs enlisted in Navy effort to...	1	15 Feb 2024 10:25 p.m. PST
New Cat Species Discovered in Museum Collection is	1	08 Jan 2024 10:48 p.m. PST
Biggest Ant In The World The Size Of A “Tarantula”	3	08 Jan 2024 10:47 p.m. PST
How Ants Took Over the World	1	30 Sep 2023 10:16 p.m. PST
Monkeys Have Reached Stone Age And Are Evolving To	8	28 Sep 2023 10:17 p.m. PST
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Megalodon: Facts about the long-gone, giant shark	3	23 Aug 2023 10:30 p.m. PST
Insect Numbers Are on the Decline – What Is Happening?	3	09 Aug 2023 10:03 p.m. PST
Plants that devour insects could be luring prey	1	24 Jul 2023 4:52 p.m. PST
One famous dog and a powerful new approach for...	1	22 Jul 2023 4:51 p.m. PST
40 Years After Nuclear Disaster, Chernobyl’s Dogs	3	12 Jul 2023 4:26 p.m. PST
Insects as Weapons of War, Terror, and Torture	1	24 May 2023 10:07 p.m. PST
Feline genetics help pinpoint first-ever domestication	1	17 Feb 2023 9:29 p.m. PST
How many ants are crawling on Earth? Scientists say	4	17 Feb 2023 9:28 p.m. PST
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Ancient wolves give clues to origins of dogs	4	28 Dec 2022 10:02 p.m. PST
Introduced donkeys and indigenous pumas are helping to	1	12 Oct 2022 10:20 p.m. PST
Combatting Invasive Species	1	14 Jul 2022 9:18 a.m. PST
Meet the Real Animals Behind Mermaids, Dragons and Other	1	11 Jun 2022 10:26 p.m. PST
Why do I love my dog when there are no evolutionary	1	06 Jun 2022 9:53 p.m. PST
Meat and Domesticated Animals	1	09 May 2022 10:34 p.m. PST
The Secret War of Ants	3	09 May 2022 10:33 p.m. PST
52 per cent of Quebec households have a cat or a dog,	3	09 May 2022 10:33 p.m. PST
Ancient Lions and Bears Colonized North America in Multiple	1	08 Apr 2022 10:10 p.m. PST
Gene for ‘toy’ dog breeds found in ancient wolves	2	07 Apr 2022 5:56 p.m. PST
Edible insects	1	21 Mar 2022 10:30 p.m. PST
Edible insects: Do insects actually taste any good?	16	03 Mar 2022 12:39 a.m. PST
From Yorkies To Pitties: 20 Of The Bravest Military Dogs	1	27 Feb 2022 4:09 p.m. PST
New Species of Armored Dinosaur Discovered	4	27 Feb 2022 4:07 p.m. PST
My Puppy is a celebrity- 4 month old Pug	4	02 Feb 2022 4:33 p.m. PST
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The Doogtroopers	1	23 Sep 2021 9:11 p.m. PST
The Sun Never Sets on the Ant Empire	5	23 Sep 2021 9:10 p.m. PST
K9 Vision System showcases control helmet for combat dogs	1	16 Sep 2021 10:16 p.m. PST
Former NASA Engineer Builds Mission Impossible-Style	5	01 Jul 2021 4:49 a.m. PST
Early History of Wolves in Idaho	4	30 Jun 2021 10:13 a.m. PST
The Cicadas Are Coming	6	18 Jun 2021 4:31 p.m. PST
Covid: South Korea launches test for pet cats and dogs	1	16 May 2021 9:26 p.m. PST
The first frog fossil from Antarctica has been found	4	20 Apr 2021 9:57 p.m. PST
These Pet Food Brands Are Being Recalled After Causing	1	19 Jan 2021 3:46 p.m. PST
How cats get their stripes	3	19 Jan 2021 3:45 p.m. PST
Your dog’s brain doesn’t care about your face	1	22 Oct 2020 1:18 p.m. PST
How This Uncrushable Beetle Can Survive Being Run Over	1	21 Oct 2020 9:21 p.m. PST
Cat Owners Fall into Five Categories, Study Shows	3	21 Oct 2020 9:19 p.m. PST
Removing painful shark hooks - my dream job	1	19 Aug 2020 3:27 p.m. PST
Care for cats? So did people along the Silk Road more	1	10 Aug 2020 12:31 p.m. PST
Dogs are Good for Your Heart Health: Study	7	04 Aug 2020 10:14 a.m. PST
Coywolves are Taking Over Eastern North America	3	29 Jul 2020 9:55 p.m. PST
1,000-Year-Old Cat Skeleton Suggests Nomadic Herders	3	23 Jul 2020 8:50 p.m. PST
Sled dogs are closely related to 9,500-year-old 'ancient	1	09 Jul 2020 8:32 p.m. PST
More ‘murder hornets’ are turning up. Here’s what...	3	09 Jul 2020 2:58 p.m. PST
Animals that go to War	1	15 Jun 2020 10:18 p.m. PST
House Cats Have a Much Larger Impact on Wildlife	5	15 Jun 2020 10:17 p.m. PST
Ants the Size of Lions: Augmented Ants [Video]	1	09 Jun 2020 10:35 p.m. PST
Why do we think cats are unfriendly?	7	09 Jun 2020 10:33 p.m. PST
Wuhan BANS eating wild animals: Five-year rule brought	3	25 May 2020 3:18 p.m. PST
The abusive and bloody business of rhino horn	2	28 Apr 2020 11:59 a.m. PST
Evolution Can Go in Reverse – Research on Soldier Ants...	3	15 Apr 2020 1:15 p.m. PST
Two New Species of Sixgill Sawsharks Discovered	1	15 Apr 2020 1:15 p.m. PST
Chinese Study Finds Cats Highly Susceptible to CCP Virus	10	15 Apr 2020 12:34 p.m. PST
‘We Don’t Deserve Dogs’ Review: A Fascinating Dog	1	24 Mar 2020 9:22 p.m. PST
How ants get angry: Precise “lock and key” process ...	1	21 Feb 2020 10:46 p.m. PST
Scientists unexpectedly witness wolf puppies play fetch	26	19 Feb 2020 3:52 p.m. PST
It feels a little empty in my house right now...	12	05 Feb 2020 5:19 p.m. PST
These camera-equipped dog goggles keep special-forces	3	23 Jan 2020 9:23 p.m. PST
Battle-Ready: 5 Insects Prepared for War	1	03 Jan 2020 10:01 p.m. PST
Humans Can Read Dogs’ Facial Expressions, but ...	1	26 Dec 2019 12:12 p.m. PST
Researchers strapped video cameras on 16 cats and	3	26 Dec 2019 12:11 p.m. PST
Humans Alone Were Responsible for This Big Atlantic	3	26 Dec 2019 12:10 p.m. PST
Well, this one way to........	2	19 Dec 2019 12:49 a.m. PST
Sumatran rhino becomes extinct in Malaysia as lone survivor	1	18 Dec 2019 11:50 a.m. PST
Silver-backed chevrotains have been ‘rediscovered"	3	09 Dec 2019 10:22 p.m. PST
Entomologist Discovers New Ant Species in...	1	14 Nov 2019 3:45 p.m. PST
Cats are securely bonded to their people, too	3	14 Nov 2019 3:44 p.m. PST
Want to put your dog on a raw meat diet? It could ...	1	08 Nov 2019 10:24 p.m. PST
We’ve lost 3 billion birds since 1970 in North America	17	31 Oct 2019 5:51 p.m. PST
Cockroaches are evolving to a point where they’ll	5	27 Oct 2019 8:41 p.m. PST
Study shows insecticides threaten survival of wild birds	3	25 Oct 2019 10:29 p.m. PST
Finding A Snake In Your House: The Kotaku Review	4	25 Oct 2019 10:28 p.m. PST