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We all have our different ways of showing love, from a hug to flowers to a date at a fancy restaurant. But how do couples in the natural world express themselves? Feel the love with these eight tales of romance, and see if any of them remind you of someone you know – maybe even yourself. Stuck on Y
This attracts male bees and beetles, who are tricked

There are more than 1,000 natural history museums around the world, each tasked with studying and preserving a portion of our planet’s natural and cultural heritage. Notes From Nature is an online platform that allows anyone with an internet connection to advance that mission by helping move valuabl
including flowering plants, butterflies, amphibians, beetles

In 2012, a crop of California’s most prized ornamental trees was overrun by an invisible invader. The growing shoots of coral beans — the official city tree of Los Angeles — began wilting and falling away, revealing stems that had been hollowed out from the inside by the caterpillars of Erythrina st
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Sea anemones are soft-bodied, underwater predators known for their bright colors, flowerlike arrangement of tentacles and the tendency to eat just about anything they can catch and fit into their mouths. In line with this last trait, researchers examining the gut contents of the giant plumose anemon
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While a clear night sky might seem quiet and peaceful to us, empty of everything but stars, this nocturnal world is filled with a high-pitched cacophony of sound just beyond our ability to hear. Bats pierce the shadows with ultrasonic pulses that enable them to construct an auditory map of their sur
Some tiger beetles can create defensive clicks at bats

There are more than 1,000 natural history museums around the world, each tasked with studying and preserving a portion of our planet’s natural and cultural heritage. Notes From Nature is an online platform that allows anyone with an internet connection to advance that mission by helping move valuabl
including flowering plants, butterflies, amphibians, beetles

With an estimated 5.5 million species, insects are the most diverse group of animals on the planet.  More than one million have been named by scientists — and many more have yet to be discovered. In fact, insects account for 80% of animal life on Earth. But, both the number and diversity of insects
insects like bees, wasps, moths, butterflies, flies and beetles

North America’s rarest snake, Tantilla oolitica (rim rock crowned snake), was recently spotted in a park in the Florida Keys after a four-year hiatus. While this would normally be cause for celebration among conservationists, the snake sighting was more a source of incredulous awe than anything else
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The drill holes left in fossil shells by hunters such as snails and slugs show marine predators have grown steadily bigger and more powerful over time but stuck to picking off small prey, rather than using their added heft to pursue larger quarry, new research shows. The study, published today in
Drilling predators such as snails, slugs, octopuses and beetles

The Florida Museum of Natural History added its own stuffed turkey to the estimated 45 million birds about to be gobbled up across the U.S. this holiday – but you wouldn’t want to bite into this one. Plumped with cotton, this turkey is meant to last for generations as a specimen in the museum’s o
can place the bones in a container with dermestid beetles