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Discover the origin and purpose of the structures of living things, from why baboons have swollen bottoms to the ...

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The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

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If disturbed, it pulls its cloak over its head to expose spiny projections on its arms. It also exudes bioluminescent, blue mucous from the tips of its arms. This may dazzle potential predators or ...