Awesome Nature

Awesome Nature

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How bees help plants have sex - Fernanda S. Valdovinos

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How bees help plants have sex - Fernanda S. Valdovinos

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Awesome Nature

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  1. 1 How turtle shells evolved... twice - Judy Cebra Thomas
  2. 2 Why are fish fish-shaped? - Lauren Sallan
  3. 3 The surprising reasons animals play dead - Tierney Thys
  4. 4 Why isn't the world covered in poop? - Eleanor Slade and Paul Manning
  5. 5 Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan
  6. 6 The evolution of animal genitalia - Menno Schilthuizen
  7. 7 Meet the tardigrade, the toughest animal on Earth - Thomas Boothby
  8. 8 Why do we harvest horseshoe crab blood? - Elizabeth Cox
  9. 9 How do birds learn to sing? - Partha P. Mitra
  10. 10 The weird and wonderful metamorphosis of the butterfly - Franziska Bauer
  11. 11 Cannibalism in the animal kingdom - Bill Schutt
  12. 12 A simple way to tell insects apart - Anika Hazra
  13. 13 Why do animals form swarms? - Maria R. D'Orsogna
  14. 14 The amazing ways plants defend themselves - Valentin Hammoudi
  15. 15 The ferocious predatory dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara - Nizar Ibrahim
  16. 16 The three different ways mammals give birth - Kate Slabosky
  17. 17 Why do animals have such different lifespans? - Joao Pedro de Magalhaes
  18. 18 How do animals experience pain? - Robyn J. Crook
  19. 19 What’s so great about the Great Lakes? - Cheri Dobbs and Jennifer Gabrys
  20. 20 Why do we kiss under mistletoe? - Carlos Reif
  21. 21 Do we really need pesticides? - Fernan Pérez-Gálvez
  22. 22 Why are there so many types of apples? - Theresa Doud
  23. 23 How smart are orangutans? - Lu Gao
  24. 24 How do animals see in the dark? - Anna Stöckl
  25. 25 What is the biggest single-celled organism? - Murry Gans
  26. 26 How a single-celled organism almost wiped out life on Earth - Anusuya Willis
  27. 27 How North America got its shape - Peter J. Haproff
  28. 28 The threat of invasive species - Jennifer Klos
  29. 29 Can plants talk to each other? - Richard Karban
  30. 30 Why do cats act so weird? - Tony Buffington
  31. 31 Why is Mount Everest so tall? - Michele Koppes
  32. 32 How do schools of fish swim in harmony? - Nathan S. Jacobs
  33. 33 Why are there so many insects? - Murry Gans
  34. 34 Why certain naturally occurring wildfires are necessary - Jim Schulz
  35. 35 The most lightning-struck place on Earth - Graeme Anderson
  36. 36 When will the next mass extinction occur? - Borths, D'Emic, and Pritchard
  37. 37 How do we know what color dinosaurs were? - Len Bloch
  38. 38 The science of snowflakes - Maruša Bradač
  39. 39 Do animals have language? - Michele Bishop
  40. 40 How smart are dolphins? - Lori Marino
  41. 41 What happens when continents collide? - Juan D. Carrillo
  42. 42 How does a jellyfish sting? - Neosha S Kashef
  43. 43 How plants tell time - Dasha Savage
  44. 44 Why is biodiversity so important? - Kim Preshoff
  45. 45 The science of static electricity - Anuradha Bhagwat
  46. 46 How do geckos defy gravity? - Eleanor Nelsen
  47. 47 Where did Earth’s water come from? - Zachary Metz
  48. 48 How parasites change their host's behavior - Jaap de Roode
  49. 49 How we think complex cells evolved - Adam Jacobson
  50. 50 How do dogs "see" with their noses? - Alexandra Horowitz
  51. 51 The truth about bats - Amy Wray
  52. 52 The hidden worlds within natural history museums - Joshua Drew
  53. 53 Why elephants never forget - Alex Gendler
  54. 54 Where do genes come from? - Carl Zimmer
  55. 55 Feedback loops: How nature gets its rhythms - Anje-Margriet Neutel
  56. 56 How do tornadoes form? - James Spann
  57. 57 What's hidden among the tallest trees on Earth? - Wendell Oshiro
  58. 58 The coelacanth: A living fossil of a fish - Erin Eastwood
  59. 59 Inside the ant colony - Deborah M. Gordon
  60. 60 A guide to the energy of the Earth - Joshua M. Sneideman
  61. 61 How to speak monkey: The language of cotton-top tamarins - Anne Savage
  62. 62 Attack of the killer algae - Eric Noel Muñoz
  63. 63 How bees help plants have sex - Fernanda S. Valdovinos
  64. 64 The colossal consequences of supervolcanoes - Alex Gendler
  65. 65 The science of symmetry - Colm Kelleher
  66. 66 How tsunamis work - Alex Gendler
  67. 67 Nature's smallest factory: The Calvin cycle - Cathy Symington
  68. 68 From the top of the food chain down: Rewilding our world - George Monbiot
  69. 69 Poison vs. venom: What's the difference? - Rose Eveleth
  70. 70 The Pangaea Pop-up - Michael Molina
  71. 71 How to fossilize...yourself - Phoebe A. Cohen
  72. 72 The popularity, plight and poop of penguins - Dyan deNapoli
  73. 73 The loathsome, lethal mosquito - Rose Eveleth
  74. 74 Bird migration, a perilous journey - Alyssa Klavans
  75. 75 Cicadas: The dormant army beneath your feet - Rose Eveleth
  76. 76 The Arctic vs. the Antarctic - Camille Seaman
  77. 77 What's below the tip of the iceberg? - Camille Seaman
  78. 78 Got seeds? Just add bleach, acid and sandpaper - Mary Koga
  79. 79 Myths and misconceptions about evolution - Alex Gendler
  80. 80 Vermicomposting: How worms can reduce our waste - Matthew Ross
  81. 81 The game-changing amniotic egg - April Tucker
  82. 82 Tracking grizzly bears from space - David Laskin
  83. 83 Reasons for the seasons - Rebecca Kaplan
  84. 84 Pruney fingers: A gripping story - Mark Changizi
  85. 85 The brilliance of bioluminescence - Leslie Kenna
  86. 86 How did feathers evolve? - Carl Zimmer
  87. 87 Making sense of how life fits together - Bobbi Seleski
  88. 88 How Mendel's pea plants helped us understand genetics - Hortensia Jiménez Díaz
  89. 89 The simple story of photosynthesis and food - Amanda Ooten
  90. 90 Where we get our fresh water - Christiana Z. Peppard
  91. 91 Curiosity, discovery and gecko feet - Robert Full
  92. 92 How life came to land - Tierney Thys
  93. 93 Five fingers of evolution - Paul Andersen
  94. 94 The Cockroach Beatbox
  95. 95 Evolution in a Big City
  96. 96 Symbiosis: A surprising tale of species cooperation - David Gonzales
  97. 97 Sex Determination: More Complicated Than You Thought
  98. 98 How a fly flies - Michael Dickinson
  99. 99 The case of the vanishing honeybees - Emma Bryce
  100. 100 Dead stuff: The secret ingredient in our food chain - John C. Moore
  101. 101 What is dust made of? - Michael Marder
  102. 102 Why don’t poisonous animals poison themselves? - Rebecca D. Tarvin
  103. 103 What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared? - Dan Kwartler
  104. 104 History through the eyes of a chicken - Chris A. Kniesly
  105. 105 Why can't some birds fly? - Gillian Gibb
  106. 106 Is fire a solid, a liquid, or a gas? - Elizabeth Cox
  107. 107 Inside the killer whale matriarchy - Darren Croft
  108. 108 Can animals be deceptive? - Eldridge Adams
  109. 109 The sexual deception of orchids - Anne Gaskett
  110. 110 How tall can a tree grow? - Valentin Hammoudi
  111. 111 A brief history of dogs - David Ian Howe
  112. 112 Why are earthquakes so hard to predict? - Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl
  113. 113 The wild world of carnivorous plants - Kenny Coogan
  114. 114 Turbulence: One of the great unsolved mysteries of physics - Tomás Chor
  115. 115 The lovable (and lethal) sea lion - Claire Simeone
  116. 116 How do crystals work? - Graham Baird
  117. 117 The secret language of trees - Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard
  118. 118 The mysterious origins of life on Earth - Luka Seamus Wright
  119. 119 Mating frenzies, sperm hoards, and brood raids: The life of a fire ant queen - Walter R. Tschinkel
  120. 120 Licking bees and pulping trees: The reign of a wasp queen - Kenny Coogan
  121. 121 The bug that poops candy - George Zaidan
  122. 122 No one can figure out how eels have sex - Lucy Cooke
  123. 123 The big-beaked, rock-munching fish that protect coral reefs - Mike Gil
  124. 124 Can the ocean run out of oxygen? - Kate Slabosky
  125. 125 The fish that walk on land - Noah R. Bressman
  126. 126 Who owns the "wilderness"? - Elyse Cox
  127. 127 The most colorful gemstones on Earth - Jeff Dekofsky
  128. 128 The world’s largest organism - Alex Rosenthal
  129. 129 Why didn’t this 2,000 year old body decompose? - Carolyn Marshall

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