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Extinction rates have *slowed* over the last 100 years

Persistent body size bias in the fossil record of Cenozoic North American mammals

Personality, predation and group size: unravelling behavioural drivers of lionfish (Pterois volitans) invasion success

Multi-model approach to understand and predict past and future dengue epidemic dynamics

Reconstructing diet and palaeoenvironment of Palaeoloxodon from the Pleistocene of Taiwan

Scientists report the first evidence that bumblebees can process time and encode temporal information from sequences of light flashes, a capability that may help resolve the long-standing debate over whether insects possess the cognitive architecture needed to interpret complex perceptual patterns.

The production of ‘food boluses’ by Antarctic krill and implications for organic matter transport

The economic impact of open science: a scoping review

Humans can find rhythm in randomly timed sounds

Bloom patterns: radially expansive, developable and flat-foldable origami

Sponge tool use is a foraging technique restricted to a small subpopulation of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in Shark Bay, Australia, that carry basket sponges on their beaks to probe the seafloor and flush out camouflaged fish.

Temporal context of eye contact influences perceptions of communicative intent

Chimpanzees and children share a strong curiosity about the lives of others

Study finds 65% decline in urban bee population, heat and land use are main culprits

Reconstructing illusory camouflage patterns on moth wings using computer vision

Evidence suggests a single hoaxer created 'Piltdown man' (2016)

Trapped in time: 16-million-year-old amber reveals dirt ants once ruled Caribbean

The cultural evolution of distortion in music

Birds may mate for life because it allows them to trust their partner

Current recycling innovations to utilize e-waste in green metal manufacturing

Fossil amphibian offers insights into the interplay between monsoons and amphibian evolution in palaeoequatorial Late Triassic systems..

The sexy and formidable male body: Study found with improvements in living conditions, men’s gains in height and weight are more than double those of women’s, increasing sexual size dimorphism, which confers on them advantages related to female choice and during physical competition with other men.

Testosterone, sexual desire and courtship efforts association in young men

No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a meta-analysis

Gardens reduce seasonal hunger gaps for farmland pollinators

Dolphins display strong avoidance behavior in response to naval sonar systems

Lunar phases influence animal behavior even beneath the forest canopy

Genetic and evolutionary divergence of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in Iliamna Lake, Alaska

Newton's financial misadventures in the South Sea Bubble (2018)

Researchers have developed a new software package that can accurately model how sound, water, or light waves are scattered when they meet complex particle configurations — which can help in the development of materials that block or deflect waves

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