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  "id": 18541854,
  "title": "'I heard a barnacle'—how paying attention to nature's background noise can reveal animal secrets",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/i-heard-a-barnacle-how-paying-attention-to-natures-background-noise-18541854",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-06T18:00:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-heard-barnacle-paying-attention-nature.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "During four days on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, I saw an Olympic marmot, a species found nowhere else on Earth; four bumblebee species working the same lavender plant; three western hermit crab species new to me; and five orcas slicing through the dark water off Ediz Hook. Any one of them could have been the trip's highlight.",
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      {
        "outlet": "The Conversation",
        "title": "‘I heard a barnacle’ – how paying attention to nature’s background noise can reveal animal secrets",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/i-heard-a-barnacle-how-paying-attention-to-natures-background-noise",
        "published": "2026-11-06T13:11:07.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}