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A Tool-Using Cow Offers a Different View of Animal Cognition
A study of one cow using a brush highlights flexible tool use, while leaving wider questions about cattle cognition open.
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Discover animals, plants, fungi and the connections between living things, with stories from the Earth Love journal.
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How Fungi Return Fallen Wood to the Forest
A fallen log is part of a living woodland. Fungi break down plant material, recycle nutrients and share this changing habitat with insects and other wildlife.
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What Came Before the Dinosaurs? Life in the Permian
Long before dinosaurs, Earth was home to forests, insects, amphibians and remarkable synapsids such as Dimetrodon. Meet the animals of the Permian world.
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How Animals Evolved: From Ancient Seas to Humans
Animals emerged long before dinosaurs. Explore the fossil record from early ocean life to mammals, primates and Homo sapiens—with evolution as a branching tree.
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Did Dinosaurs Really Exist? What Fossils Tell Us
Bones, footprints and other fossils show that dinosaurs were real animals. Here is what the evidence tells us—and why birds mean dinosaurs are still here.
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Respect for every kind of good life
Explore Earth Love’s commitment to animals, plants, fungi and unfamiliar lives, with an open, careful perspective on possible artificial life.
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A place for life we have yet to meet
How should we think about unfamiliar forms of life? Explore the uncertainty around defining life and respecting beings we may not yet understand.
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The quiet lives beneath the forest
Discover the quiet connections among fungi, fallen wood, trees and woodland animals, and why less visible forest life deserves our attention.
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