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Iowa biologists have captured two wild pallid sturgeon in the Des Moines River, the first time the federally endangered ...

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The Amazon molly reproduces without sex. A genomic copy-and-paste trick called gene conversion may explain how it avoids evolutionary meltdown.

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A tiny, yellow-and-orange juvenile warty frogfish rests on a coral-like object in a habitat at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium. A tiny fish is making big waves at Shedd Aquarium as animal caretakers ...