Believe it or not, but ducks have a reputation for the unexpected: bizarre and intricate mating anatomy. According to ...
Epaulette sharks can reproduce without any measurable increase in energy use, stunning researchers who expected egg-laying to ...
They therefore trapped small mammals—mostly mice, voles, squirrels and shrews—at 40 sites in the wildernesses of eastern ...
In the icy waters of Alaska's Bristol Bay, a new study reveals how a small population of beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas ...
More girls are hitting puberty at eight or earlier. Researchers are exploring the causes, the consequences and what should be ...
Before scientists even knew how many Florida scrub millipedes were left in the wild, a quiet breakthrough happened in a University of South Florida lab. The rare, giant millipedes reproduced in ...
A rare yam species, Dioscorea melanophyma, spreads its clones by fooling birds with fake berries, helping it survive without ...
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This Plant Produces Plump, Fake Berries to Trick Birds Into Spreading Its Offspring Far and Wide
The black-bulb yam excels at mimicry, producing small clones of itself that look like the dark, shiny berries of seed-growing ...
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