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Birds Have Local Accents and City Lights Are Changing How They Sing
1+ hour, 28+ min ago (973+ words) Home " Features " Natural Sciences " Animals " Birds Bird songs carry local dialects, urban adaptations, and local culture. Each year on the first Sunday in May, International Dawn Chorus Day invites people to do something very simple: get up before sunrise and…...
Urban Birds Seem to Be More Afraid of Women Than Men. Scientists Can't Explain Why
13+ hour, 46+ min ago (1150+ words) Birds fled about one meter sooner when women approached. On spring mornings across Europe, researchers walked slowly toward birds. Many birds. They did so without shouting, waving their arms, or carrying threats like nets or goodies like food. In city…...
This 25 Million Year Old Platypus Had Teeth Built to Crack Open Armored Prey
23+ hour ago (542+ words) New fossils reveal an ancient platypus with teeth, power and a vanished world....
Honeybees May Understand Numbers Better Than Critics Thought
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (395+ words) We're still trying to understand how exactly to study bees....
Quantum Reactions in Birds" Eyes May Help Them Sense Earth"s Magnetic Field
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (280+ words) Scientists have built the first open-source 3 D brain atlas of a migratory bird....
Germany Tried To Save Timmy the Stranded Whale But His Fate Is Still Unclear
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (826+ words) After weeks stranded in Germany, a young whale begins an uncertain journey home. For weeks, a young humpback whale lingered in Germany's shallow Baltic waters, far from the open North Atlantic. He was weak, visibly damaged, and unable to make…...
A Single Mutation Made Horses Rideable and Changed Human History
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (123+ words) Ancient DNA reveals how a single mutation reshaped both horses and human history....
How Orcas Create Giant Waves to Hunt Seals on Ice Floes
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (734+ words) Home " Science " Oceanography A new study reveals how orcas shape water into a tool to wash seals off ice floes A seal resting on an Antarctic ice floe may look safe, at least for a moment. It is out of…...
The Real Story of Dire Wolves Is Much More Fascinating Than What Fiction Tells You
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (781+ words) They shared a common ancestor with grey wolves over 5 million years ago....
Ancient Maya Hauled 'Little Fat Dogs' 400 Miles Across The Jungle. Sometimes It Was Just to Eat Them
2+ week, 5+ day ago (674+ words) New chemical analysis reveals ancient Maya elites transported their prized dogs across hundreds of miles....