Nature

Animals that make headlines, explained with what researchers actually know.

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  Hairless Dog Breeds: Xolo, Chinese Crested, Peruvian and American Hairless

  The four best-known hairless dog breeds, the genetics behind hairlessness, why hairless dogs often lack teeth, and what their bare skin needs.

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  How a Honeybee Colony Works: Queen, Workers, Drones and the Waggle Dance

  Who does what inside a honeybee hive: the queen, the workers and the drones, how a bee's job changes with age, how the waggle dance gives directions, why comb is hexagonal and how a swarm chooses a new home.

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  The Giant Asian Hornet (Northern Giant Hornet): Facts and Myths

  Vespa mandarinia, the world's largest hornet: size, range, venom, how it raids honeybee hives, how Japanese bees fight back, and how North America eradicated it.