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iflscience.com | Eleanor Higgs |Katy Evans
Keepers at Chester Zoo in the UK were quick to notice when 25-year-old Rico, a Linnaeus's two-toed sloth, developed a swelling on the side of his face. The zoo team performed a CT scan on Rico, which revealed that he had two root abscesses. “Sloths have very different teeth to humans, which makes dentistry challenging.
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iflscience.com | Eleanor Higgs |Laura Simmons
Roadkill rates were investigated for over 5,000 roadkill instances that spanned across reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals. A recent conference presentation entitled Patterns of Wildlife-Vehicle Collision in Montane Environments showed that amphibians suffered the most roadkill in mountainous areas while mammals were killed the most often in low-lying regions.
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1 week ago | 
iflscience.com | Eleanor Higgs
The orcas were reported to celebrate the kill with "breaching and tail slaps". Tourists and researchers on a whale-watching boat off the coast of Western Australia got a little more action than they bargained for when they witnessed a pygmy blue whale being hunted and eventually predated upon by a huge pod of orcas.
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2 weeks ago | 
iflscience.com | Eleanor Higgs |Holly Large
Subtle differences suggest this could be a new species of giant flightless bird. A major storm might not necessarily be good news, but for a group of researchers in New Zealand, bad weather has uncovered a set of 1-million-year-old footprints on a beach. Thought to have been left by a moa, an ancient, now extinct, flightless bird, the footprints have helped scientists learn more about their ecology, behavior, and potentially even revealed a new species.
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2 weeks ago | 
iflscience.com | Eleanor Higgs |Holly Large
Hanna Koch was snorkeling in the Florida Keys to look for suitable places to deploy habitat support structures (also known as artificial reefs) in her role as the Director of the Artificial Reefs Program for Monroe County, Florida. “I was swimming along, saw the bottle, picked it up intending to throw it away but wanted to make sure nothing was living inside, so I flicked out a couple of shells stuck in the mouth of the bottle and peered inside.
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2 weeks ago | 
iflscience.com | Eleanor Higgs |Laura Simmons
Impressively, the city is even higher than the top of Mount Fuji. Eleanor HiggsEleanor is a content creator and social media assistant with an undergraduate degree in zoology and a master’s degree in wildlife documentary production. Digital Content CreatorEditedbyLaura SimmonsLaura is an editor and staff writer at IFLScience. She obtained her Master's in Experimental Neuroscience from Imperial College London. Do you know where it is yet?
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2 weeks ago | 
iflscience.com | Eleanor Higgs |Laura Simmons
The team think there could be as many as 20-30 new species waiting to be found across the border in North Korea. Eleanor HiggsEleanor is a content creator and social media assistant with an undergraduate degree in zoology and a master’s degree in wildlife documentary production. Digital Content CreatorEditedbyLaura SimmonsLaura is an editor and staff writer at IFLScience. She obtained her Master's in Experimental Neuroscience from Imperial College London.
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2 weeks ago | 
iflscience.com | Eleanor Higgs |Holly Large
A quick trip to the vet and the team was able to remove it. Eleanor HiggsEleanor is a content creator and social media assistant with an undergraduate degree in zoology and a master’s degree in wildlife documentary production. Digital Content CreatorEditedbyHolly LargeHolly is a graduate medical biochemist with an enthusiasm for making science interesting, fun and accessible.
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3 weeks ago | 
iflscience.com | Eleanor Higgs |Maddy Chapman
The footprints were discovered on the Isle of Skye and provide a rare look into the Middle Jurassic. Eleanor HiggsEleanor is a content creator and social media assistant with an undergraduate degree in zoology and a master’s degree in wildlife documentary production. Digital Content CreatorEditedbyMaddy ChapmanMaddy is an editor and writer at IFLScience, with a degree in biochemistry from the University of York.
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3 weeks ago | 
iflscience.com | Eleanor Higgs |Maddy Chapman
The oldest rocks contain tiny time capsules that date to the earliest parts of Earth's history. Eleanor HiggsEleanor is a content creator and social media assistant with an undergraduate degree in zoology and a master’s degree in wildlife documentary production. Digital Content CreatorEditedbyMaddy ChapmanMaddy is an editor and writer at IFLScience, with a degree in biochemistry from the University of York. A fragment of Acasta Gneiss, some of the oldest rock found on Earth.
