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Scientists Discover Bright Yellow Fish In Great Lakes And Its Condition Raises New Questions
A routine fish survey in New York has uncovered an extraordinary sight that researchers were not expecting. Biologists searching for invasive species in Oswego Harbor pulled a brilliantly colored yellow fish from the water, and its appearance was so unusual that it immediately stood out. The fish was a burbot, a native Great Lakes species…
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Scientists Thought They Knew Gentoo Penguins. Then Their DNA Told A Different Story
Scientists have spent more than a century without identifying a completely new penguin species. Now, researchers have discovered that a bird they thought they already understood actually contains a hidden species that had been overlooked for generations. The discovery came after scientists examined the genetics and evolutionary history of gentoo penguins living across remote islands…
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The Tiny Bat Found In An Omaha Office Was A First For Nebraska
An ordinary morning at an Omaha office building turned into a wildlife mystery when workers discovered a tiny bat on the floor. What initially looked like an unexpected pest turned out to be something far more unusual: a cave myotis, a species Nebraska Wildlife Rehab says had never previously been documented in the state. The…
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A Strange Monkey Hidden in Congo’s Rainforest Has Finally Been Identified After Years of Mystery
For nearly two decades, a blurry photograph taken deep inside one of the world’s largest rainforests left scientists with more questions than answers. The image captured only part of an unfamiliar black monkey perched high in the trees of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but even that incomplete glimpse suggested researchers had stumbled…
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An Amateur Botanist Just Photographed a Tree Kangaroo No One Had Seen for 90 Years
In 1928, a legendary evolutionary biologist trekked into the remote mountains of what is now West Papua, Indonesia. He spotted an unusual animal high in the forest canopy, one he had never encountered before. He raised his rifle, took aim, and fired. That single shot would provide science with its only specimen of a mysterious…
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Scientists Catch Grumpy Cat of the Himalayas on Camera for the First Time
High in the rarefied air of the eastern Himalayas, where the clouds hang low and the wind howls across desolate ridges, a small camera blinked to life and captured something no one had ever seen in India before. In that moment, at nearly 16,400 feet above sea level, the icy wilderness revealed one of its…
