Latest articles by Matt Soniak
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How ants use 'death signals' to scavenge for foodfeature European biologists have finally found the cause of ants' uncanny ability to locate far-flung meals
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The girl who grew Lincoln's beardfeature The 16th president achieved follicular fame thanks to an 11-year-old girl
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Inside nature's most painfully bizarre sexual ritualfeature It involves sex-reversed genitalia and a barbed, inflatable member
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Elephants are really messy eaters — and that's great for other animalsfeature Call it creative destruction
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The secret to living upside down, according to slothsfeature Hanging upside down all day would wreck your inner organs — so how do sloths make do?
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The secret strategy behind the black widow's bitefeature The deadly spider is very judicious with its venom
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Why do some animals have spikes, while others have armor?feature The origins of 6 animal defense mechanisms
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Why some flowers smell like deathfeature These stinkers give off the vilest smells imaginable
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This is why you don't have sex with other speciesfeature Some worms find interspecies mating to be a deadly affair
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How did flightless birds travel around the world?feature It's a question that has bedeviled ornithologists for years. And it might have just been solved.
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The koala's secret to staying cool: Huggingfeature Tree-hugging, to be exact
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Why don't different species have sex more often?feature The Western Mojave's Capulets and Montagues offer some clues
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You're ruining Antarcticafeature This is why we can't have nice continents
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Are poinsettias as dangerous as everyone says?feature The truth behind the lore surrounding the seasonal plant
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What a set of serrated teeth could tell us about ancient ecologyfeature Dimetrodon's chompers are a window into the past
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How rain helped the Mongols conquer Asiafeature Tree rings have many stories to tell
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Too much sex? Why some animals fornicate to deathfeature It ain't for the fun of it
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'Zoom and enhance': A much-mocked CSI trope becomes realityfeature Scientists figure out the image enhancement technique that TV cop dramas have been using for years
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The deadly sexism of hurricane namingfeature There was nothing "weak, warm, and passive" about a hurricane named Sandy
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The useful versatility of the humble antfeature Ants can be used by other animals for a variety of purposes, including as camouflage and home security systems
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Meet the sommelier of insect stingsfeature A yellowjacket sting is "hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W.C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue."
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The bizarre sex lives of spidersfeature Some even give Valentines...
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Why don't octopuses get stuck to themselves?feature Their arms have mighty suckers, but octopuses somehow manage to avoid wrapping themselves up in knots
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Watch a falcon and an alligator hunt — from their point of viewfeature By mounting cameras on two formidable predators, scientists get rare glimpses into how they capture their prey
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