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Due to globalization, an aquatic fungus threatens to decimate an increasing number of amphibian species across the world.

For the first time, confirmation of the deadly H5N1 virus has been detected in California's elephant seal population.

Bonobos remain the "make love, not war" primates of the animal kingdom, but new studies prove they still have an edge.

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New research may have discovered the answer to the age-old puzzle of why moths and other insects are attracted to lights.

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