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New Rust Toolkit Supercharges Sex Determination Studies in Non-Model
1+ hour, 24+ min ago (628+ words) A new open-source software package promises to transform how biologists hunt for the genetic switches that separate males from females in species with no reference genome....
Scientists Discovered a Giant New Anaconda Species While Filming Will Smith’s Show Deep in the Amazon
1+ day, 43+ min ago (633+ words) They looked almost identical, but their DNA told a story nearly 10 million years in the making. The Waorani hunters knew where to look. Wading into river systems threading through their territory in Ecuador’s Orellana and Pastaza provinces, they led a…...
Researchers taught 18 pet parrots to ring a bell and select another bird???s picture on a touchscreen to request a video call. During 147 bird-initiated calls, the parrots developed preferred partners and preened, sang and played toward the screen??? while caregi
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (1452+ words) Fifteen of the 18 recruited parrots made 147 voluntary calls after training. The behavior was real, but preferred partners and newly learned skills require careful reading. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 11, 2026 · How we edit A parrot ringing a…...
Spying on the secret lives of boobies
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (1782+ words) High-tech tools offer a window into how these red-footed seabirds behave far out at sea During the day, red-footed boobies leave the tropical islands where they nest and fly far out to the open ocean in search of food. Until…...
The World's Kindest Otter Helps a Janitor Clean Up
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (350+ words) Kindness is easy to recognize when people show it. Someone pays for the next order in the coffee line, helps a relative with an overdue bill, or eats the slightly questionable pancakes their child made for breakfast. Animals can display…...
Do birds enjoy flying? Scientists asked cockatoos
4+ day, 16+ 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…...
'Phantom mole' recorded for first time in northern Japan's Shirakami-Sanchi mountains
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (231+ words) September 8, 2026 (Mainichi Japan) AOMORI -- The Japanese mountain mole, sometimes called a "phantom mole," has been found for the first time in the Shirakami-Sanchi mountains, a UNESCO Natural World Heritage site spanning Aomori and Akita prefectures in north Japan, a research…...
It’s happening again: Oregon’s largest spider is seeking love inside people’s homes
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (1348+ words) At some point in the next few weeks, an Oregonian will walk into a bathroom, flip on the light and discover the floor has grown legs. Long, hairy and moving fast enough to turn a routine bathroom visit into an…...
Biologists tagged a wild albatross in 1956: Decades later, Wisdom is outliving her researchers and raising chicks at age 75
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (274+ words) The Laysan Albatross is the world’s oldest known banded wild bird. ‘Wisdom’ has been using the same nest site area for over seven decades. Wisdom, a juvenile Laysan Albatross, was guarding her nest on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific…...
Researchers find 'zombie-ant fungus' hiding in moss far from ant graveyards
1+ week, 1+ day ago (696+ words) "The fungus is present in mosses that no infected ant ever bit." A study in Brazil's Amazon rainforest found the so-called zombie-ant fungus in mosses, even in samples taken far from clusters of dead, infected ants known as ant graveyards....