
Octopuses Used in Research Could Receive Same Protections as Monkeys
For the first time in the U.S., research with cephalopods might require approval by an ethics committee
For the first time in the U.S., research with cephalopods might require approval by an ethics committee
In low- and middle-income nations, snakebite envenoming is more deadly than almost any other neglected tropical disease
Caterpillars can’t regulate their body temperatures, so they have to come up with a totally different strategy to make it through the coldest months of the year.
A honeybee swarm has as much electric charge as a thundercloud, and the insects’ mass movements in the atmosphere might even have some influence on the weather.
Often nicknamed “making biscuits,” kneading is a good sign that your cat is happy, experts say
A “Darwinian paradox” is that homosexual activity occurs even though it does not lead to or aid in reproduction. But if you visit three capuchin monkeys in Los Angeles, they’ll show you how beneficial their liaisons are...
Does the prevalence of same-sex encounters in a group of Puerto Rican monkeys enhance their ability to pass along their genes?
An expedition has discovered a remote Fijian cave with thousands of microbats thought to be nearly extinct
Light is a very dangerous, if not so obvious, threat to birds who migrate at night. But researchers are using weather radar to track birds and provide “lights out” forecasts to help keep their paths clear of visual distraction...
Science is turning to machines to unlock the secrets of the vast, mysterious pulse-of-the-planet phenomenon that is nocturnal migration.
Thousands of usually solitary octopuses gather to brood eggs in a special spot off California
If you really want to challenging your bird identification skills, try using them at night, when bird calls are less than 100 milliseconds long.
A hogfish may provide the first example of a vertebrate with specialized light-detecting cells that reside outside the central nervous system
The “button dogs” of TikTok seem to be learning human words. What’s really going on?
For thousands of years, no one truly knew how birds migrated—that is, until a few unlikely pioneers sat in an empty field with hundreds of pounds of kludged together recording gear and waited to hear sounds that no one had ever captured...
From the moment a male lion is born, it faces a gauntlet of challenges, ranging from snakebite to infanticide
On any given night, dense clouds of dark, ghostly figures pass over your head as you sleep. Maybe you never knew they were there, but there are people out there who are deciphering all the unseen movement that happens amid the darkness...
An expedition using a deep-sea remotely operated vehicle has uncovered a hidden underground ecosystem below hydrothermal vents on the seafloor
Scientists altered the genomes of female fruit flies, allowing them to reproduce without any contribution from a male
Unisexual salamanders in the genus Ambystoma appear to be the only creatures in the world that reproduce the way they do. Researchers know how, but the why is still being figured out...
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