Slime Molds Have Been Oozing around Earth for at Least 100 Million Years
Stunning new fossil reveals that at least one Cretaceous slime mold—an “intelligent” giant amoeba—looks identical to one alive today
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How a Tiny Pit Decides a Pine Tree’s Fate
Live fast, die young and leave a good lookin’ stump
Did the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Inadvertently Help Lichens?
The leafy lichens seem to have picked up where a lot of incinerated plants left off
New Shipworm Eats Rock, a First for Animals
Like lichens, these animals mine stone. What they do with it is another question
Striped Maples Can Change Sex Repeatedly
Unassuming tree has unusual sex life
These Bizarre Parasites Garden Their Insect Hosts
Be glad human STDs do not include this one
What the Heck Are These Fossils?
Are they the first animal embryos? 20 years post-discovery, these and other fossils from the 600-million-year-old Doushantuo Formation remain frustratingly enigmatic
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Organ Stealing and Slave Driving Rampant among—Plankton?
Ocean microbes long thought to depend exclusively on eating turn out to have a solid, if sinister, Plan B
How a Half-Inch Beetle Finds Fires 80 Miles Away
Fire chaser beetles' ability to sense heat borders on the spooky
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Kangaroo Rats Channel Jackie Chan to Evade Rattlesnakes [Video]
First ever high-speed video of interaction contains big surprises
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