Dozens of scientists recently glued fake green caterpillars onto plants around the world in an unusual study to see how the caterpillars’ risk of getting eaten varied from pole to pole.
It’s getting so hot that even the trees are heading north. Man-made climate change – including warmer temperatures and deviations in rainfall patterns – appears to be one of the reasons tree populations in the eastern U.S.
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Call it the big chomp. The T. rex was impressive in its might and so was its bite —more than twice as bone-crunching as the bite of its relative, the fearsome crocodile, a Florida State University researcher found.
As a senior writer for Live Science, Laura Geggel covers general science, including the environment and amazing animals. She has written for The New York Times, Scholastic, Popular Science and Spectrum, a site covering autism research.
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