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Discovery of new prehistoric mosquitoes reveal these blood-suckers have changed little in 46 million years

Found in well preserved shale deposits the fossils are so detailed that scientists were able to determine they represent two previously unknown species.

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8 vampire animals that aren't necessarily bloodsuckers

We label a lot of species with the shiver-inducing denizen of the night, even if they don't suck blood.




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Dogs know we're suckers for 'puppy dog eyes'

Research suggests that man's best friend has learned to capitalize on our preference for big, sad eyes.




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Tagged Razorback Suckers Released in Grand Canyon

Bureau of Reclamation, the Nevada Department of Wildlife, BIO-WEST, Inc., and the Arizona Game and Fish Department, National Park Service (NPS) biologists successfully released nine adult endangered razorback suckers (Xyrauchen texanus) in the Colorado River downstream of Lava Falls (River Mile 180). https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/tagged-razorback-suckers-released-in-grand-canyon.htm




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Thinking is for suckers, but if you’re an octopus, suckers are for thinking

Octopuses “think” with neurons so distributed throughout their bodies that sometimes the left hand literally doesn’t know what the…left hand is doing.