Odd Creatures: Plants & Animals
July 21, 2024
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July 16, 2024 — A new study on common food aromas may help explain why astronauts report that meals taste bland in space and struggle to eat their normal nutritional intake. This research has broader implications for improving the diets of isolated people, ...
July 17, 2024 — Pet cats may be excellent animal models for the study of obesity origins and treatment in humans, a new study of feline gut microbes suggests -- and both species would likely get healthier in the research process, scientists ...
July 17, 2024 — During an event, details like what you saw, smelled, and felt aren't stored as a single memory. Rather, they are encoded and stored in your brain separately. To retrieve that memory, those pieces must get put back together. When that doesn't happen ...
July 9, 2024 — Investigators sought to help figure out how to send materials like probiotics into space and to better treat a variety of gastrointestinal (GI) and metabolic diseases. The team's formulations allow ...
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July 17, 2024 — A pioneering study has unveiled the first paired observations of sexual behavior and vocalizations in wild leopard seals. The study on the mysterious leopard seal represents a major advance in ...
July 17, 2024 — A newly engineered type of soil can capture water out of thin air to keep plants hydrated and manage controlled release of fertilizer for a constant supply of ...
July 11, 2024 — The flow of water within a muscle fiber may dictate how quickly muscle can contract, according to a new ...
July 9, 2024 — From sifting through topsoil for native truffles to cracking open hard shells of seeds and nuts to munch on the tasty kernels, Australia bettongs and potoroos are described as 'ecosystem engineers' ...
July 11, 2024 — An international research team has assembled the genome and 3D chromosomal structures of a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth -- the first time such a ...
July 10, 2024 — A record-breaking swim by two lion brothers across a predator-infested African river has been documented in a new study. The researchers say the 1km ...
July 10, 2024 — The surprising discovery of a new species of extinct crocodile relative from the Triassic Favret Formation of Nevada, USA, rewrites the story of life ...
July 10, 2024 — The most complete dinosaur discovered in the UK in the last 100 years, with a pubic hip bone the size of a 'dinner plate', has been described in a ...
July 10, 2024 — Unique recordings show that bats can ramp up heart rate from 6 to 900 b.p.m within ...
July 9, 2024 — A new study reveals that the rare Desertas Petrels (Pterodroma deserta), a wide-ranging seabird in the North Atlantic, exhibit unique foraging behaviors during hurricane season. Contrary to other ...
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July 10, 2024 — A new study highlights the sustainable, cultural and ecosystem benefits of offshore removal or decomposition of whale remains. The study tracked the remains of a humpback whale that was intercepted ...
July 9, 2024 — The United States has lost its only stand of the massive Key Largo tree cactus in what researchers believe is the first local extinction of a species caused by sea level rise in the ...
July 9, 2024 — A type of extinct kangaroo that lived during the Pleistocene around two and a half million to ten thousand years ago, known as the 'giant wallaby', was a poor hopper, a study has ...
July 9, 2024 — A newly discovered ancestor of Thescelosaurus shows evidence that these animals spent at least part of their time in underground burrows. The new species contributes to a fuller understanding of life ...
July 4, 2024 — In a new paper, researchers and citizen mycologists describe the two new species as Psilocybe ingeli and Psilocybe maluti. The paper also contains information on the traditional use of P. maluti by ...
July 3, 2024 — Blue and great tits recall what they have eaten in the past, where they found the food and when they found it, a new study shows. In the first experiment of its kind to involve wild animals, blue and ...
July 3, 2024 — Meet Gaiasia jennyae, the swamp creature with a toilet seat-shaped head. It lived 40 million years before the first dinosaurs, and it was the top predator in its ...
July 2, 2024 — The sea worm Platynereis dumerilii is only a few centimeters long but has a remarkable ability: in just a few days, it can regenerate entire parts of its body after an injury or amputation. By ...
July 2, 2024 — Researchers have made a significant advance in understanding how genes are controlled in living organisms. The new study focuses on critical snippets of RNA in the tiny, transparent roundworm ...
July 2, 2024 — Saving lives through surgery is no longer exclusive to humans. Scientists now detail how Florida carpenter ants, a common, brown species native to its namesake, selectively treat the wounded limbs of ...
July 1, 2024 — GPS tracking collars have revealed how newly reintroduced eastern quolls are settling in at Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary in Canberra, with quolls who were born at the sanctuary accepting their ...
July 1, 2024 — Scientists discovered the oldest fossil grapes in the Western Hemisphere, which help show how after the death of the dinosaurs, grapes spread across the ...
June 30, 2024 — The desert moss Syntrichia caninervis is a promising candidate for Mars colonization thanks to its extreme ability to tolerate harsh conditions lethal to most life forms. The moss is well known for ...
June 28, 2024 — A new study has produced supranormal hearing in mice, while also supporting a hypothesis on the cause of hidden hearing loss in ...
June 27, 2024 — The last population of woolly mammoths was isolated on Wrangel Island off the coast of Siberia 10,000 years ago, when sea levels rose and cut the mountainous island off from the mainland. A new ...
June 27, 2024 — Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which are more than 500 million years old, were collected in the High Atlas of ...
June 27, 2024 — Researchers have studied the cell membranes of ctenophores ('comb jellies') and found they had unique lipid structures that allow them to live under intense ...
June 26, 2024 — We often think of species as separate and distinct, but sometimes they can interbreed and create hybrids. When this happens consistently in a specific area, it forms what's known as a hybrid ...
June 26, 2024 — Although a fly's motor neurons are few, it performs remarkable aerial and terrestrial feats. A wiring diagram recently created of the motor circuits in the central nervous system of the fruit ...
June 26, 2024 — New biologist-designed shelters will help endangered frogs survive the devastating impacts of a deadly fungal disease by regulating their body temperature to fight off ...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
- First Local Extinction in the US Due to Sea Level Rise, Study Suggests
- Ancient Large Kangaroo Moved Mainly on Four Legs, According to New Research
- Life Underground Suited Newly Discovered Dinosaur Fine
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
- Blue and Great Tits Deploy Surprisingly Powerful Memories to Find Food
- Giant Salamander-Like Creature Was a Top Predator in the Ice Age Before the Dinosaurs
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
- A New Breakthrough in Understanding Regeneration in a Marine Worm
- Research Shows How RNA 'junk' Controls Our Genes
- An Ant That Selectively Amputates the Infected Limbs of Wounded Sisters
Monday, July 1, 2024
- Everybody Needs Good Neighbors: Resident Quolls Help Newcomers Settle in at Mulligans Flat
- Sixty-Million-Year-Old Grape Seeds Reveal How the Death of the Dinosaurs May Have Paved the Way for Grapes to Spread
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Friday, June 28, 2024
Thursday, June 27, 2024
- Last Surviving Woolly Mammoths Were Inbred but Not Doomed to Extinction
- Prehistoric 'Pompeii' Discovered: Most Pristine Trilobite Fossils Ever Found Shake Up Scientific Understanding of the Long Extinct Group
- Under Pressure: How Comb Jellies Have Adapted to Life at the Bottom of the Ocean
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
- Researchers Find Genetic Stability in a Long-Term Panamanian Hybrid Zone of Manakin Birds
- From Takeoff to Flight, the Wiring of a Fly's Nervous System Is Mapped
- Frog 'saunas' A Lifeline for Endangered Frog Populations
- Eating Small Fish Whole Can Prolong Life Expectancy, a Japanese Study Finds
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Thursday, June 20, 2024
- New Study Finds Dinosaur Fossils Did Not Inspire the Mythological Griffin
- Wild Chimpanzees Seek out Medicinal Plants to Treat Illness and Injuries
- Newly Discovered Dinosaur Boasts Big, Blade-Like Horns
- First Conclusive Evidence That a Terrestrial Leech Species Can Jump
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
- Fishy Parenting? Punishing Offspring Encourages Cooperation
- The World's Oldest Wine Discovered
- Where to Put Head and Tail?
Monday, June 17, 2024
- Wear It, Then Recycle: Designers Make Dissolvable Textiles from Gelatin
- Ancient Polar Sea Reptile Fossil Is Oldest Ever Found in Southern Hemisphere
Friday, June 14, 2024
Thursday, June 13, 2024
- Sweaty Cattle May Boost Food Security in a Warming World
- Scientists Preserve DNA in an Amber-Like Polymer
- Paleontology: New Fossil Fish Genus Discovered
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
- Soaring Birds Use Their Lungs to Modify Mechanics of Flight
- Ingestible Microbiome Sampling Pill Technology Advances
- No Bones About It: 100-Million-Year-Old Bones Reveal New Species of Pterosaur
- Are Plants Intelligent? It Depends on the Definition
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
- Millions of Insects Migrate Through 30-Meter Pyrenees Pass
- Virus-Like Nanoparticles Control the Multicellular Organization and Reproduction of Host Bacteria
- Algae Offer Real Potential as a Renewable Electricity Source
- Scientists Unlock Secrets of How Archaea, the Third Domain of Life, Makes Energy
Monday, June 10, 2024
- Novel Genetic Clock Discovers Oldest Known Marine Plant
- Elephants Have Names for Each Other Like People Do, New Study Shows
Friday, June 7, 2024
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
- Researchers Solve 2,000-Year-Old Mystery of the Shipworm
- Flapping Frequency of Birds, Insects, Bats and Whales Described by Universal Equation
- Fishy Mystery of Marine Reptile Solved
- Blood Sausages and Yak Milk: Bronze Age Cuisine of Mongolian Nomads Unveiled
- 'Missing' Early Sea Sponges Discovered
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
- Giant Viruses Found on Greenland Ice Sheet
- Using AI to Decode Dog Vocalizations
- Gigantic Jurassic Pterosaur Fossil Unearthed in Oxfordshire, UK
Monday, June 3, 2024
- Captivating Blue-Colored Ant Discovered in India's Remote Siang Valley
- Food Drove the Evolution of Giraffes' Long Neck
- How Sharks Survived a Major Spike in Earth's Temperature
Saturday, June 1, 2024
Thursday, May 30, 2024
- 'Ugly' Fossil Places Extinct Saber-Toothed Cat on Texas Coast
- Scientists Invent 'living Bioelectronics' That Can Sense and Heal Skin
- Picture This: Snapping Photos of Our Food Could Be Good for Us
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
- Chicken Feathers to Deliver Chemotherapy Drugs and Repair Enzymes
- Acute Sense of Touch Helps Hummingbirds Hover Near a Flower Without Bumping Into It
- Orchids Support Seedlings Through 'parental Nurture' Via Shared Underground Fungal Networks
- Slugs and Snails Love the City, Unlike Other Animals
- The Secret Sex Life of Coral Revealed
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
- Why Do Dyeing Poison Frogs Tap Dance?
- How Killifish Embryos Use Suspended Animation to Survive Over 8 Months of Drought
- Florida Fossil Porcupine Solves a Prickly Dilemma 10-Million Years in the Making
Monday, May 27, 2024
Friday, May 24, 2024
- Entomologist Sheds Light on 250-Year-Old Mystery of the German Cockroach
- Caterpillars Can Detect Their Predators by the Static Electricity They Emit
- Bigger Is Better: Male Proboscis Monkeys' Enhanced Noses Evolved to Attract Mates
Thursday, May 23, 2024
- Key Role of Plant-Bacteria Communication for the Assembly of a Healthy Plant Microbiome Supporting Sustainable Plant Nutrition
- Psychedelic Drug-Induced Hyperconnectivity in the Brain Helps Clarify Altered Subjective Experiences
- Foraging Ants Navigate More Efficiently When Given Energy-Drink-Like Doses of Caffeine
- Sexual Parasitism Helped Anglerfish Invade the Deep Sea During a Time of Global Warming
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
- Australian Study Proves 'humans Are Planet's Most Frightening Predator'
- New AI Accurately Predicts Fly Behavior
- Cuddled Cows Who Work as Therapy Animals Showed a Strong Preference for Women Compared to Men, Study Finds
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
- Study Finds Widespread 'cell Cannibalism,' Related Phenomena Across Tree of Life
- Detecting Odors on the Edge: Researchers Decipher How Insects Smell More With Less
- Researchers Discover Hidden Step in Dinosaur Feather Evolution
Friday, May 17, 2024
Thursday, May 16, 2024
- Otters, Especially Females, Use Tools to Survive a Changing World
- How Neighboring Whale Families Learn Each Other's Vocal Style
- How Did Sabre-Toothed Tigers Acquire Their Long Upper Canine Teeth?
- Spider Silk Sound System
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
- Jet-Propelled Sea Creatures Could Improve Ocean Robotics
- Eurasian Jays Can Use 'mental Time Travel' Like Humans, Study Finds
- Analyzing Androgynous Characteristics in an Emperor Penguin Courtship Call
- Iconic Baobabs: The Origin and Long-Distance Travels of Upside Down Trees
- Some Mice May Owe Their Monogamy to a Newly Evolved Type of Cell
- First 'warm-Blooded' Dinosaurs May Have Emerged 180 Million Years Ago
- Tiger Beetles Fight Off Bat Attacks With Ultrasonic Mimicry