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Sometimes it seems like plants are communicating–but this seems impossible. But biologists now say it’s TRUE–we just need to learn their "language."

Researchers added the protein luciferase (which makes fireflies glow in the dark) to the DNA of cabbage plants, so their emissions could be captured on camera. They suspected that a gas is emitted when a plant’s surface is cut or pierced–but does this gas communicate "danger" to nearby plants?
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Congress is passing more laws than ever, and some of them are downright dangerous. For instance, a new study finds that the number of guns that were subsequently linked to crime sold by a single store–a Milwaukee-area gun shop called Badger Guns & Ammo–increased dramatically after Congress adopted measures likely to reduce the risks gun dealers face if they divert guns to criminals.
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Amazon.com customer Melissa Sehgal has created a petition calling for the world’s largest online retailer to permanently ban the sale of whale and dolphin meat on its site. So far it’s gotten over 9,000 signatures.

A report published by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Humane Society International states Amazon was selling marine mammal meat, in the form of over 100 cetacean food products, on it’s website Amazon Japan before February 22.
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Evolution doesn’t happen overnight: large changes in body size take a long time. There have been increases and decreases in mammal size following the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Now biologists estimate that a mouse-to-elephant size change would take at least 24 million generations, based on the maximum speed of evolution in the fossil record.

PhysOrg.com quotes researcher Alistair Evans as saying, "A less dramatic change, such as rabbit-sized to elephant-sized, takes 10 million generations."Huge sea mammals, such as whales, took about half that number of generations to reach their current size.
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