Animals
Diversity is what helped mammals survive through deep time
After the great dinosaur extinction some 65 million years ago, mammals finally had their big shot as numerous niches became free for the taking. Thus, from mouse size, some mammal...
Bowerbirds grow garden just for the sake of beauty
A team of international scientists claim that they've found evidence of the first non-human species that cultivates planets for non-food purposes. The extremely fine feathered bowerbirds, native to Australia and...
3000 dolphins die, wash up on the coast of Peru as a result of oil companies activitiy
In the past 3 months, over 3000 dead dolphins have been washed ashore on the coasts of Peru, and this worrying trend continues to grow. So far, the average is...
T. Rex relative had an extensive plumage – biggest feathered dinosaur ever found
[caption id="attachment_12449" align="alignnone" width="562" caption="Artist impression of a group of Yutyrannus, the largest feathered animal known to man and a close relative to the T. Rex, which lived during the...
Bio-mechanical hybrid robot might detect diseases from inside your body
Scientists at Newcastle University are currently developing a tiny bio-inspired robot, just one centimeter in length, which in less than five years might be used to diagnose and pinpoint diseases...
Hammerhead shark twin discovery leads to concern about entire species
The scalloped hammerhead shark which we've probably all seen has a twin - and this discovery led to the conclusion that members of the species might be much, much rarer...
Tap into the cockroach’s neural activity with the SpikerBox
Neurons are the absolute core components of the nervous system that transmit information through electrical and chemical signals. I once wondered how...
Honeybee dying population linked to pesticide
We've reported in the past about the frightening, ever growing cases of honeybee population dye-offs of the past few years, and while no immediate or long term plan has been...
Earliest animal with a skeleton discovered, pre-Cambrian
The Cambrian era marked a profound change on life on Earth, sparking the rapid development of complex organisms and a diversification of the ecosystem, thus the term "Cambrian explosion". Prior...
Women make for excellent snake spotters before their periods
In what might seem an oddball experiment in the first instance, later revealing some very interesting scientific facts, a Kyoto University researcher asked 60 women participating in a study to look...
Gorillas are more related to humans than previously thought, complete genome sequence shows
Researchers have completed the great apes family's genetic library after they sequenced the genes of...
Unique, hybrid creatures discovered off the coast of Costa Rica
Symbiosis is an absolutely fantastic adaptation in itself, but this case of deep sea symbiosis takes it to a whole new level: basically, a hermit crab uses an anemone as...
Velociraptor last meal hints that it scavenged as well
Velociraptors have been repeatedly described by paleonthologists as voracious predators, however a recent study of a 75 million year old specimen revealed that the dinosaur wasn't picky at all, and...
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Penguin manages to escape from Tokyo by swimming at “tremendous speed” [shorties]
Be on the look out for a one year old Humboldt escaped from the Tokyo Sea Life park; the young penguin was caught speeding in the Kyu-Edo River headed towards...
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Study finds 86% species on Earth and 91% species in the ocean still await description [shorties]
Diversity is one of the most shocking aspects when it comes to life on Earth, and knowing how many species walk this planet alongside us is perhaps one of the...
Tree lobster thought extinct for past 80 years is alive and well
During man's exploits through out history, a great number of species were driven to extinction, either by excessive hunting, habitat destruction, disease or pest introductions and so on. There are...
Scientists prove ‘immortal worms’ can regenerate indefinitely and stay forever young
University of Nottingham scientists spurred a slew of debate in 2008 when they claimed their object of study, the planaria or "flatworm", might actually be immortal, possessing an indefinite ability to regenerate...
Fossils show huge penguin once roamed New Zealand
New Zealand is home of some of the world's weirdest animals, and things weren't very different 24 million years ago either: a huge penguin, measuring 1.3 meters tall was found...
Headless chicken solution envisions Matrix-style farming
Each year, billions of chickens are raised all over the world with the sole purpose of providing meat at the end of their couple of weeks-long lives. The animals are ...
Smallest chameleon, just ONE inch in size, discovered in Madagascar
A team of German and American researchers have discovered four new species of tiny chameleons on the island of Nosy Hara, just off the northern coast of Madagascar, which considered...
