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Do birds enjoy flying? Scientists asked cockatoos
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (307+ words) Flying leads to positive emotions and optimism in Galahs By Clarissa Brincat edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier As a kid, Jorg Massen would watch birds swoop and swirl overhead and wonder whether they were doing it for enjoyment. Massen is…...
Nature may have a preferred tempo
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (423+ words) From flashing fireflies to human music, many biological rhythms appear to converge on the same rhythmic range By Anirban Mukhopadhyay edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Fireflies’ rhythmic flickering fits within a common tempo range. A closer analysis showed that both…...
An endangered pygmy raccoon turned trash into toys???and taught her family how, too
1+ week, 3+ day ago (355+ words) This tiny raccoon turned trash into toys—and taught her family how, too The endangered animals displayed a first in raccoons and their kin By Isabel Gil edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier It started when the pygmy raccoon dove into…...
Newly discovered ‘demon cave fish’ hid out in Alabama military installation for 40 years
1+ week, 4+ day ago (264+ words) Scientists named this oddball creature after the Demogorgon from Stranger Things By Elizabeth Anne Brown edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Elizabeth Anne Brown is a freelance science journalist based in New Jersey. Her work has appeared in the New York…...
Scientists just unleashed an army of 130,000 baby octopuses to fight off a blue crab invasion
2+ week, 5+ day ago (231+ words) When fully grown, the octopuses that survive could eat up to four blue crabs per day in the Mediterranean Sea By Gennaro Tomma edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier “We are not introducing a new species but working on strengthening the…...
See hundreds of stingrays swarming off the coast of New York
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (306+ words) A “fever” of cownose rays revealed by striking drone footage could be a sign of warming oceans By Sanidhya Sharma edited by Claire Cameron Incredible new video footage reveals a convoy of hundreds of stingrays—a grouping that marine biologists…...
Did poop fuel paleontology’s vaunted Cambrian explosion?
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (424+ words) The Cambrian explosion is a critical moment for life on Earth—and it may have been all about poop By Meghan Bartels edited by Claire Cameron State Natural History Museum Karlsruhe Some 540 million years ago, life on Earth suddenly got…...
Humans’ sense of smell is still evolving
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (249+ words) A genetic study shows how smell capabilities were maintained in a hunter-gatherer population By Willow Zhang edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier The genetic differences among the populations did not pertain only to smell. In one of the farming groups, the…...
Dogs know when humans are happy—and it shows in their brains
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (783+ words) Dogs are known to recognize and respond to human facial expressions, but a new study shows how deeply they understand our mood Dogs really do know when their owner thinks they have been a good boy or a naughty pup....
Monkeys keep pets and maintain friendships with other animals
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (942+ words) By Cyril Grueter & The Conversation US RChoi via Getty Images The first time I saw it, I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at. A northern white-cheeked gibbon at Shanghai Zoo was holding and caressing a mouse that had…...