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Elephants Just Passed a Classic Psychology Test – With More Restraint Than Many Humans
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (444+ words) After a long day at work, it can be a struggle to resist the urge to just order food delivery instead of checking the fridge first....
'Impossible': This Tiny Animal Can Pass Radiation Damage to Its Offspring – And Repair It Over Generations
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (1294+ words) In the mosses and lichens of the world – the in-between places, where living conditions rapidly fluctuate – lives a tiny animal with an extraordinary survival skill. No, not tardigrades – it's their much weirder housemate, the bdelloid rotifer. Just like tardigrades, bdelloid…...
Mysterious Viper With a 'Spider' For a Tail Reveals Another Surprise
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (531+ words) A number of creatures on Earth possess a sting in their tails – but there's only one animal known to science with a spider for a tail....
Ancient DNA Reveals The 'American Cheetah' Wasn't a Cheetah at All
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (441+ words) The Ice Age movies get one major thing right: Climate shifts and glaciation caused profound animal migrations and evolutionary adaptations – though it's uncertain if any of them resulted from an acorn-burying saber-toothed squirrel splitting a continent. During the Pleistocene epoch,…...
Squid Are Taking Over The Ocean – And Not For The Reason You Might Think
1+ week, 1+ day ago (347+ words) We've made some drastic changes to ocean ecosystems in the past century....
Only Cats Are Linked to Worse Mental Health in Young Kids, Study Finds
1+ week, 1+ day ago (752+ words) Parents strive to support their children's physical and mental well-being, whether it's constant cross-town drives to karate, mashing a million peas, or absorbing countless CoComelon marathons. Adopting a pet is another common practice, but is there any science to support…...
Haunting Encounter With Rare Bigfin Squid Caught 2 Miles Under The Waves
1+ week, 4+ day ago (663+ words) In the liminal darkness of the water column deep under the sea, an entire ecosystem thrives....
If Your Dog Is Blinking at You, It May Be Trying to Tell You Something, Science Suggests
1+ week, 6+ day ago (529+ words) We love our dogs and we know they love us back....
This Giant Crocodile Relative Weighed as Much as a Car And Preyed on Rhino-Sized Mammals
2+ week, 6+ day ago (560+ words) Crocodiles are among today's most feared predators, but their ancient relatives make today's crocs seem as threatening as a cuddle-prone kitty with a cold. It took a while, though: Since crocodyliforms arose more than 200 million years ago, they've gone through…...
An Ancient Shark Graveyard Has Been Found in The Egyptian Desert
3+ week, 1+ day ago (882+ words) The desert sands of Egypt have been dry for thousands of years. As difficult as it is to picture now, however, much of that desert was once submerged beneath a sea that covered much of the northern perimeter of the…...