The ratting of North America: A 350-year retrospective on Rattus species compositions and competition (www.science.org)
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New beetle species with white mohawk resembling bird faeces discovered (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Watch rare endangered pink handfish walking in 19th-century shipwreck off Tasmania (www.livescience.com)
Scientists CT scanned thousands of natural history specimens, which you can access for free (www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu)
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By fluttering its wings, this bird uses body language to message its mate (www.sciencenews.org)
Male dragonflies’ wax coats might protect them against a warming climate (www.sciencenews.org)
Giant 'toe biter' water bugs discovered in Cyprus for the 1st time (www.livescience.com)
‘Mind-blowing’ new orchid species found in Madagascar forest canopy (news.mongabay.com)
Why Bats Are Flying Machines (nautil.us)
New "ghost shark" species with giant eyes found thousands of feet deep (www.newsweek.com)
Scientists discover "fascinating" worm that can replace pesticides (www.newsweek.com)
These tiny fish combine electric pulses to probe the environment (www.nature.com)
NZGeo: Batfly (www.nzgeo.com)
These blind wingless flies are vegetarian and can only travel on a rare species of bat who prefers to walk.
Researchers Solve Mystery of The Sea Creature That Evolved Eyes All Over Its Shell (www.sciencealert.com)
Technicolor 'living magic carpet' deep-sea worm discovered near methane seep off Costa Rica (www.livescience.com)
Newfound bee species help solve a decades-old mystery (www.sciencenews.org)
“It’s like if they had a cow and a giraffe make a baby": The Accidental Creation of a Hybrid Fish (web.archive.org)
Their mothers were Russian sturgeons—large carnivores with creamy bellies, short, rounded snouts, and green, dragon-like scales. Their fathers were American paddlefish—smooth-skinned filter feeders with sensitive, elongated snouts. “Sturddlefish,” as these hybrids were nicknamed after researchers in Hungary announced...