This Fungus Appears to Be Able to Recognize Shapes, Study Shows
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This Fungus Appears to Be Able to Recognize Shapes, Study Shows
This is pretty incredible.
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Scientists Peered Inside The Tiniest Dinosaur Egg Ever Found : ScienceAlert
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ScienceAlert
Scientists Peered Inside The Tiniest Dinosaur Egg Ever Found
A record-breaker from millions of years ago.
When bats can’t hear, new research finds that these hearing-dependent animals employ a remarkable compensation strategy. They adapt immediately and robustly, suggesting for the first time that bats’ brains are hard-wired with an ability to launch a Plan B in times of diminished hearing
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Johns Hopkins University
Bats' amazing Plan B for when they can't hear
New research by Johns Hopkins neuroscientists reveals instant compensation strategy that other animals might share
Humpback whale songs have patterns that resemble human language
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New Scientist
Humpback whale songs have patterns that resemble human language
The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be because of how they are learned
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Cockatoos show appetite for dips when eating bland food, find scientists - Birds observed going to lengths to flavour food, with particular penchant for blueberry-flavoured soy yoghurt dip.
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the Guardian
Cockatoos show appetite for dips when eating bland food, find scientists
Birds observed going to lengths to flavour food, with particular penchant for blueberry-flavoured soy yoghurt dip
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Many birds-of-paradise species emit light through their plumage, study finds | Researchers found that most birds-of-paradise are biofluorescent – meaning they absorb light through their bodies
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the Guardian
Many birds-of-paradise species emit light through their plumage, study finds
Researchers found that most birds-of-paradise are biofluorescent – meaning they absorb light through their bodies
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Scientists have discovered how an Australian jumping spider's semi-hydraulics allows it to speed jump long distances with precision while experiencing g-forces higher than those of fighter pilots | Their insights might help robotics research.
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New Atlas
Aussie jumping spiders pull more gs than a fighter pilot
Scientists have discovered how an Australian jumping spider's semi-hydraulics allows it to speed jump long distances with precision while experiencing g-forces higher than those of fighter pilots. Their insights might help robotics research.
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100-Million-Year-Old Rock Reveals 40 Never-Before-Seen Squid Species 🦑🪨✨
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ScienceAlert
100-Million-Year-Old Rock Reveals 40 Never-Before-Seen Squid Species
Squishy rulers of the dinosaur-era seas.
Tomatoes in the Galápagos 🍅🌿 are de-evolving. They found that plants on eastern islands produced the same alkaloids found in modern tomatoes. But on western islands, the tomatoes were churning out a different version with the molecular fingerprint of eggplant relatives 🍆 from millions of years ago.
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University of California, Riverside
Tomatoes in the Galápagos are de-evolving
Wild-growing tomatoes are on the black-rock islands of the Galápagos are doing something peculiar. They’re shedding millions of years of evolution, reverting to a primitive genetic state that resurrects ancient chemical defenses.
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Male Tarantulas Evolved Record-Long Genitalia 🍆🐍 to Avoid Being Killed by Females 🚺💔
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ZooKeys
Size matters: a new genus of tarantula with the longest male palps, and an integrative revision of Monocentropus Pocock, 1897 (Araneae…
A taxonomic revision of the eumenophorine tarantula genus Monocentropus Pocock, 1897, which currently comprises three species, M. balfouri Pocock, 1897 (♂♀; Socotra, Yemen), M. lambertoni Fage, 1922 (♂♀; Madagascar), and M. longimanus Pocock, 1903 (♂♀; Yemen)…
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These ants are different species but share a mother. 🐜 Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding. 🏗️
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Nature
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Nature - Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
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Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say. 🐜🔬✨
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Science
Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species
Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say
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Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher 🌱🔍✨
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Bees 🐝 Understand Morse Code. It Could Change How We See Human Intelligence 🧠.
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Popular Mechanics
Bees Understand Morse Code. It Could Change How We See Human Intelligence.
Bees obviously can’t use this skill on human level, but this progress could help scientists better grasp complex cognitive-like traits.
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In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them 🐝🦴. It's the first time bees have been recorded using bones to nest and lay eggs, according to a new study.
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CNN
Discovery of ancient bee nests in fossils points to a never-before-seen behavior
In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.
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A gut microbial odd-chain fatty acid alleviates atherosclerosis in mice | Nature
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Nature
A gut microbial odd-chain fatty acid alleviates atherosclerosis in mice
Nature - The administration of Bacteroides uniformis in mice can mitigate atherosclerosis via pentadecanoic acid, which directly inhibits HMG-CoA reductase to promote hepatic cholesterol clearance.
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