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What Bird Feeding Has to Do with Happiness
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (184+ words) It might be good for the birds—and you 1:31 PM CDT on September 10, 2026 If it turns out the positives for both birds and humans outweigh the negatives, perhaps it’s time to encourage more people to let these flighty creatures know…...
This Snake???s Tail Has a Fake???Spider??? at the Tip
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (256+ words) It’s meant to help lure prey 9:00 AM CDT on September 10, 2026 Paleontologists piece together ancient animals primarily from bones. The vast majority of the time, these animals’ soft tissues have dissolved and left no trace in the fossil record. And so,…...
Why Snake Embryos Form in Spirals
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (232+ words) The most carefully packed embryo of all the vertebrates 7:00 AM CDT on September 9, 2026 There’s something special you might not know about snake embryos: They form in a tight spiral shape, usually in a clockwise direction. This packaging trick is the…...
The Hidden Power Struggle Between Lions and Hyenas
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (363+ words) There’s a lot of role reversal happening here 5:00 AM CDT on September 9, 2026 Scientists know that lions and hyenas are found together in the African veld. And the assumption has always been that hyenas skulk around lions to steal the leftover…...
Male Sex-Reversed Frogs Hold Their Own in Fertility Competitions
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (359+ words) Sex reversal may not be an evolutionary dead end after all 11:00 AM CDT on September 8, 2026 Typically, your phenotype—or your outward appearance—matches your genotype when it comes to sex. But, in a little-studied phenomenon dubbed “sex reversal,” the outward…...
Why Some Ants are Lazy Freeloaders
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (355+ words) Not every ant is a good samaritan 7:00 AM CDT on September 8, 2026 The Sahara Desert isn’t exactly a paradise for insects. The dry air and scorching temperatures mean these little critters are always in danger of desiccating or dying of heat…...
Why Do Male Chimpanzees Throw Rocks at the Same Trees for More Than a Decade?
1+ week, 4+ day ago (897+ words) Accumulative stone throwing is a rare, potentially cultural, behavior that has been observed among four groups of wild chimpanzees in West Africa 9:00 AM CDT on September 2, 2026 Walking through the savanna-woodland landscape of Boé National Park, Guinea-Bissau, you might encounter a…...
The Extinct Tasmanian Tiger???s Bite Was Unlike Any Other Predatory Mammal???s
1+ week, 5+ day ago (234+ words) Which makes its extinction even more tragic 1:30 PM CDT on August 31, 2026 Now a new study investigating the thylacine’s bite shows they likely never posed a threat to livestock at all. “The longer a jaw is, the faster its tip moves…...
Watch This Shrimp-Like Fish Walk Backwards
2+ week, 1+ day ago (221+ words) A deep-sea denizen with an identity crisis 5:00 PM CDT on August 28, 2026 What looks like a shrimp, walks like a crab, and swims like a fish? The armored sea robin (obviously). Among other things, the team was able to confirm that…...
Listen in on the Sounds of a Jurassic Period Forest
2+ week, 1+ day ago (194+ words) Behold the call of the katydid 3:00 PM CDT on August 28, 2026 Do you want to hear what the insects in a Jurassic forest in Mongolia sounded like? Obviously, there were no recording devices, let alone humans, 165 million years ago, but there…...