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Travel Down a Borehole into Antarctica’s Lake Mercer [Video]

Have you ever wondered what the subglacial lakes of Antarctica look like? I have. In this video, a team of American scientists led by Dr. John Priscu of Montana State University and including Dr. Trista Vick-Majors, lead author of a new study on Subglacial Lake Whillans, take a peek at subglacial Lake Mercer. A Glimpse of […]

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Red-winged Blackbirds Understand Yellow Warbler Alarms

Brown-headed cowbirds are obligate brood parasites. That means they lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, leaving all the hard work of incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks to somebody else. Luckily, many of those other species have evolved some anti-parasitic defenses. Yellow warblers, for example, produce a certain type of call […]