Loveless monkey adopts chicken at Israeli zoo
A lonely monkey at an Israeli zoo has found a way to soothe her maternal urges: by adopting a chicken.
A lonely monkey at an Israeli zoo has found a way to soothe her maternal urges: by adopting a chicken.
Ecology
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Big bones from the extinct "thunder bird" or dromornithid, excavated in the northern reaches of the Flinders Ranges and near Alice Springs, have yielded new insights into their slow breeding patterns.
Evolution
Aug 23, 2022
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A research team led by a Northwestern University scientist has discovered that male animals, through their invisible chemical "essence," prime female animals for reproduction but with the unfortunate side effect of also hastening ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2016
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long been intrigued by the longevity of a tiny amphibian known as the blind salamander, but it now seems it may live a long time because it basically has no life.
Annual killifish are known to live their lives at one of two speeds: "pause" or "fast-forward." For most of the year, the tiny freshwater fish persist as diapausing embryos buried in sediments across the African savannah, ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 6, 2018
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A long-standing mystery surrounding a fundamental process in plant biology has been solved by a team of scientists at the University of California, Davis.
Plants & Animals
Jun 4, 2009
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Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have successfully produced a bull calf, named Cosmo, who was genome-edited as an embryo so that he'll produce more male offspring. The research was presented in a poster ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 23, 2020
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Fossil skeletons have long fascinated researchers as a window to prehistory. But so far, little is known about details of sexual development in extinct creatures. An international team of researchers from China, Germany and ...
Evolution
Jun 30, 2023
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Museum of the Rockies have wiped out two species of dome-headed dinosaur, one of them named three years ago - with great fanfare - after ...
Archaeology
Oct 30, 2009
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All living organisms age and die—there is no way of escaping death. But not all organisms follow the same pattern of weakening and deterioration to old age and death—counter-intuitive as it may seem.
Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2022
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