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In a recent study published in the journal Biology Letters, a female crocodile living in isolation for 16 years at a Costa Rican zoo laid a clutch of eggs, a common practice among captive reptiles, even those without mates. After three months of incubation, one egg contained "a fully formed stillborn baby crocodile," a team of scientists found.

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Researchers found that rattlesnakes can buffer each other's stress response, much like humans, when they endure a stressful event together. This is the first time "social buffering" has been studied in a reptile.

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In a recent study, Illinois Sustainable Technology Center environmental chemist Wei Zheng and colleagues investigated the adsorption of sitagliptin in soils treated with sewage wastewater.