A team affiliated with multiple institutions in Japan has identified a peptide that signals feeding suppression in jellyfish. In their study, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group dissected ...
A trio of researchers—one with the Indian government's Ministry of Earth Sciences, another with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and the third with the National Institute of Advanced Studies, also in India—has ...
There's a new branch on the tree of life and it's made up of predators that nibble their prey to death.
Evolution
Dec 7, 2022
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Some male wolf spiders seem to get luckier than others when it comes to courting females. The secret of their courtship? It's complicated, says a new study led by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Plants & Animals
May 27, 2022
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Even the smallest marine invertebrates—some barely larger than single-celled protists—are home to distinct and diverse microbial communities, or microbiomes, according to new research from University of British Columbia ...
Ecology
May 26, 2022
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For all their uncanny intelligence and seemingly supernatural abilities to change color and regenerate limbs, octopuses often suffer a tragic death. After a mother octopus lays a clutch of eggs, she quits eating and wastes ...
Plants & Animals
May 12, 2022
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Prehistoric mammals bulked up, rather than develop bigger brains, to boost their survival chances once dinosaurs had become extinct, research suggests.
Evolution
Mar 31, 2022
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Octopuses can solve complex puzzles and show a preference for different individuals, but whether they, and other animals and invertebrates, have emotions is being hotly debated and could shake up humans' moral decision-making, ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 24, 2022
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Spinosaurus is the biggest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered—even bigger than T. rex—but the way it hunted has been a subject of debate for decades. It's hard to guess the behavior of an animal that we only know from ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Mar 23, 2022
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You know your dog gets your gist when you point and say "go find the ball" and he scampers right to it.
Plants & Animals
Jul 12, 2021
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