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The World's Biggest Spider Eats Birds And Lives Closer To The U.S. Than You Think
In the creepy crawly world of spiders, this gargantuan South American arachnid cousin has a set of fangs that would make ...
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From Human Food Waste to Prey: What Monitor Lizards Really Eat
Monitor lizards are a genus of large lizards found in Africa, Southern Asia, and Australia. There are 80 recognized species ...
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Foraging On Wing: How Similar Birds Coexist
A spat between birds at your backyard bird feeder highlights the sometimes fierce competition for resources that animals face in the natural world ...
Nature's Web: Researchers Harness Internet Of Life
A novel paper led by Dr Ulrich Brose of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena is ...
Study of wishbone spiders includes 55 new-to-science species
A two-year study into the Australian wishbone spiders by experts from Queensland Museum, Western Australian Museum and the ...
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55 new species of Australian wishbone spiders identified
55 new species of Australian wishbone spiders have been identified, expanding the family of burrow-making spiders such as tarantulas and funnel webs. Source: Queensland Museum The research spanned ...
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Scientists discover 55 new species of Australian wishbone spiders
SYDNEY, April 14 (Xinhua) -- A team of Australian scientists has discovered 55 new species of wishbone spiders in a major study exploring some of the country's more remote ecosystems, the ...
Extinctions of Australian mammals have long been blamed on foxes and cats—but where's the evidence?
In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia's "gentle and specialized creatures" were "unable to cope ...