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Dog parks are an antidote to the isolation and divisions that social media can fuel
1+ week, 1+ day ago (437+ words) The people who stretch a person’s sense of humanity may be the ones no algorithm currently selects....
What anglers have taught me about saving England’s sharks
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (725+ words) I spent six days on a small fishing boat in the middle of the English Channel in July trying to catch a thresher shark. The weather was fickle, even at the height of summer. My colleague, ecologist Lucy Hawkes, and…...
Early mammals weren’t all loners, as scientists thought – some already lived in pairs alongside the dinosaurs
1+ week, 2+ day ago (740+ words) These early mammals looked like shrews do today. They were small and had a long body, eyes typical for nocturnal mammals and little spiky teeth for eating insects. But they were not shrews. They were the ancestors of all the…...
A court will decide the future of Yuraygir’s feral horses. That matters for native plants and animals
5+ day, 46+ min ago (808+ words) From poems to films and books of history, horses feature widely in Australian popular culture. Feral horses, also known as brumbies, are descendants of domesticated horses that now live and breed independently in the wild. For some people, these horses…...
Tiny backpacks reveal the secret, sometimes circuitous migrations of small songbirds
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (657+ words) Squinting through my binoculars, I scanned the dense branches of a black spruce, trying my best to catch a glimpse of the thin legs of a small black, white and yellow songbird. I was on the hunt for a yellow-rumped…...
Listening to the bush: How AI can help NZ rid its wildnerness of ‘hold-out’ pest possums
2+ week, 6+ day ago (835+ words) Possums are among New Zealand’s most destructive introduced mammals. They damage native forests, prey on wildlife and remain a major target of the country’s Predator Free 2050 programme. But removing most possums from an area through predator control is only part…...
Why we give our cats, dogs and other pets social media accounts
3+ week, 3+ day ago (765+ words) Others share their daily lives through pictures of interactions with their companion animals. And the tech industry has responded with new platforms such as Petzbe and other apps and communities for pets and their families. This online behaviour reflects the…...
How brainless sea sponges use sunset as a cue to prepare for metamorphosis
1+ week, 1+ day ago (422+ words) Sea sponges are some of the world’s simplest animals – but even so, the rhythm of night and day kicks off a crucial stage of their life cycle....
Using a radar satellite to track emperor penguins in winter is changing our understanding of the species
1+ week, 3+ day ago (598+ words) Freely available satellite radar imaging is being used for the first time to help track colonies of endangered emperor penguins in Antarctica throughout the winter months. Typically satellite images need sunlight to be useful, and Antarctica is dark in the…...
Caterpillar twitches in an ultraquiet chamber are helping biologists understand how these insects hear without ears
1+ week, 3+ day ago (621+ words) In a quiet summer garden, a caterpillar perches on a branch, munching serenely on leaves. A moment later it freezes. It senses danger – and just in time. From behind, a wasp approaches, sizing up its prey. Tobacco hornworm caterpillars don’t…...