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These male monkeys lived longer if they socialized with females, with or without benefits.
By Elizabeth Preston
Birds that appeared “freshly dead” near an Italian research base turned out to be centuries old.
By Matt Kaplan
To settle a lengthy debate, a team of paleontologists says the specimen unearthed in the 19th century was shed by an archaeopteryx.
By Lucas Joel
A fungus known as white mold can kill a plant in days. Unless, that is, a virus is around to tame it.
By Katherine J. Wu
The large arachnids have long been thought to be colorblind, but new evidence suggests they can perceive each others’ brilliant coloring.
By Joshua Sokol
Scientists still don’t know how the marine mammals go so long without air.
Honeybees were better at pollinating crops after scent training.
A new study suggests that the ocean’s strangest-looking headgear is difficult to tote around.
By Cara Giaimo
When a species of microalgae gets inside a zooplankton that feeds on it, it smothers the grazer’s eggs and disrupts reproduction.
By Priyanka Runwal
Scientists have found a potent chemical that might give Australian giant stinging trees their extraordinarily painful punch.
