Animals
How Can an Elephant Squeak Like a Mouse?
New research using a camera that can “see" sound” shows some elephants can produce high-pitched buzzing with their lips.
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Animals
Save the Right Whales by Cutting through the Wrong Noise
New noise-cutting tech could pinpoint North Atlantic right whales and other species
Animals
Night Flights Are No Sweat for Tropical Bees
New research uses night vision to see how nocturnal bees navigate the dark.
Animals
How Rootworms Sniff Carbon Dioxide to Devastate Corn Crops
Scientists silenced CO2-sensing genes to determine how the destructive pests find their food
Animals
Inside the Nail-Biting Quest to Find the ‘Loneliest Whale’
It is a tale of sound: the song of a solitary whale that vocalizes at a unique frequency of 52 hertz, which no other whale—as the story goes—can seemingly understand. It is also a tale about science and ocean life, laced with fantasy and mystery and mostly shrouded in darkness...
Animals
How You Can Help Stop Invasive Spotted Lanternflies
Scientists are collecting photographs of the insects’ eggs to train an algorithm and curtail their rapid spread
Animals
Extreme Birding Competition Is a Cutthroat Test of Skill, Strategy and Endurance
A team of birders races to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours
Animals
How to Help Your Dog Adapt to a Postpandemic World
As owners head back to offices, pets’ anxiety and frustration may rise
Animals
Mammoth Tusk Analysis Reveals Epic Lifetime Journey around Alaska
Researchers find the mammoth walked far enough to circle the globe twice
Animals
Many Mouse Studies Happen at the Wrong Time of Day
Mice woken at odd hours may skew research results—and most studies don’t track the timing
Animals
Why Tiny Tardigrades Walk like Insects 500,000 Times Their Size
Animals this small and squishy usually don’t have legs
Animals
Birds’ Eye Size Predicts Vulnerability to Habitat Loss
A lost “treasure trove” of bird samples reveals how eye shape changes with environment
Conservation
World’s Largest Wildlife Bridge Could Save Mountain Lions
An ambitious and popular project to connect the dangerously inbred Santa Monica mountain lions to a larger population is about to break ground
Ecology
Suspect List Narrows in Mysterious Bird Die-Off
Here’s how researchers are zeroing in on the culprit
Animals
Squirrels Use Gymnastics to Navigate Treetop Canopies
Their acrobatic leaping skills could serve as inspiration for new robotics
Animals
Bird Species Abundances, from Biggest to Smallest
A new study found large species are rare, but those with fewer individuals are abundant
Animals
Caffeine Boosts Bees’ Focus and Helps Them Learn
By associating caffeinated sugar water and a target scent, researchers teach bumblebees to stay on task
Animals
Animal Play Is Delightfully Meaningful
Brown dwarfs, stuttering, quantum chemistry, and more
Animals
Parasites Thrive in Lizard Embryos’ Brain
Lizard embryos host tiny nematode invaders
