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A study from the University of California, Davis, found that temperature affects the sound and quality of male frogs' mating calls. In the colder, early weeks of spring, their songs start off ...

Lipstick vines in Taiwan look different from their red-flowered relatives. When scientists dug into the family tree, they ...

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