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Bees up-close
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Barry from Bee Movie has taught us that without bees, we won't survive. These pollinators may terrify us when they are swarming around out at the park, but they are more terrifying if they were not around. What is happening to our bees with domestication? What have we lost? What are we trying to restore? The answers to these questions are in this video. Check it out 
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What mechanism allowed early terrestrial animals to transition from water to land?
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A new study finds that Mudskipper fish carry water in their mouths in order to eat prey outside of water. As seen in the video below, the hidden water is expelled at the moment of eating and it serves as a suction to move the water and their meal back toward the esophagus. The water suction, or “hydrostatic” tongue, may serve as the evolutionary bridge that allowed our aquatic ancestors to begin feeding on land.
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We were born to fight
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The bones of the male human face evolved their shape to withstand fistfights, according to a recent scientific study.
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All corn today, as we know corn, is GMO corn
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Here's how 9,000 years of selective breeding has changed corn from a wild grass - that required a hammer to peel - to the juicy yellow ears of deliciousness we know today.
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This sweet fruit grows in the most unbelievable place
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The Brazilian Jaboticaba tree well and truly takes advantage of all the surface area on its trunk by growing its sweet, grape-like fruits all over it. It's said to have evolved its trunk-fruit so animals could reach them and distribute the seeds.
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Ginger monkeys!
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Some species of lutung monkeys from Southeast Asia are born with bright orange coats. Called natal coats, they're thought to have evolved to stop adult males killing young males. In a rare subspecies, the golden coat is sometimes retained into adulthood.
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Evolution is sneaky
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While this little guy may look like some sort of 'Hummingbee' it's actually a Bee Fly. They sneak their eggs into beehives, where their larvae can parasitize bee larvae and eat their food reserves!
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Do monkeys grieve for fallen mates?
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The two marmosets - small, New World monkeys - had been a closely bonded couple for more than three years. Then, one fateful day, the female had a terrible accident. Her partner left two of their infants alone in the tree and jumped down to apparently comfort and mourn her. Humans mourn their dead, of course, and some recent studies have strongly suggested that chimpanzees do as well. This new observation suggests that mourning is more widespread among primates than previously thought.
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