All posts tagged with wildlife
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-(Natural News) Humans and primates might have a new challenger to their supposedly unique knack for subtle communications using facial expressions. A new U.K. study showed that sun bears were also able to copy the expressions made by other members of the same species. The smallest species of bear in the world, sun bears are also […]
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-(Natural News) The bottom of the ocean serves as home sweet home to bug-like crustaceans called giant isopods. Able to grow to the size of a football, these pink-colored critters chew through the tough skin and bones of dead animals that reach the seafloor. Mere hours after the carcass of an alligator or similarly sized […]
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-(Natural News) The bottom of the sea is so weird that it might as well have come from another planet. And a strange environment produces fittingly odd creatures, such as the sea spider. A marine cousin of terrestrial arachnids like spiders and scorpions, sea spiders look even more nightmarish. A recent study found that sea […]
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-(Natural News) Humans often keep dogs as pets to protect their homes and family from intruders. Likewise, a South American species of burrowing tarantula keeps a tiny frog to protect its eggs and young spawn from small insects. In turn, the spider protects the frog from predators. Photographs taken by Italian researcher Emanuele Biggi featured an individual […]
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-(Natural News) Some of the largest living animals in the world dwell exclusively in the polar seas and the deepest parts of the oceans. Blue whales, colossal squid, lion’s mane jellyfish, and other leviathans may have attained and maintained their massive sizes thanks to a combination of extremely slow metabolic processes and oxygen availability in polar […]
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-(Natural News) The paper wasp has become the first invertebrate animal that proves capable of transitive inference – the same form of logical reasoning that humans and other, more complex animals use for deduction. Transitive inference leverages known links to reason out unknown relationships. An animal capable of such logic knows that if A is […]
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-(Natural News) Organic farms not only produce healthy foods – they increase bird populations as well, a recent study finds. Researchers from the University of Helsinki in Finland found that organic animal farms are the most effective measures to reverse the decreasing bird numbers in Europe. The study, which was published in PLOS ONE, highlighted the importance of […]
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-(Natural News) Conservationists aim to preserve – and potentially save – different species and ecosystems around the world. This is especially vital for rare species, but scientists have found that research on how rare species impact ecosystems are sorely lacking. A recent study from the U.S. and Australia highlighted the need to identify how these rare species […]
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-(Natural News) Imagine a crab with a lobster’s carapace, a shrimp’s mouth, and bulging eyes, plus the ability to swim. This stuff of seafood dreams and Lovecraftian nightmares is called the chimera crab, and it prowled the seas of the ancient Earth. Its discoverers dubbed it Callichimaera perplexa, “perplexing beautiful chimera” in Latin. The name came from […]
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-(Natural News) We are surrounded by highly advanced technological devices, with everything from our televisions and mobile devices to sophisticated smart home hubs turning our houses, work spaces and schools into so-called “smart” zones. With each passing year, however, as technology gets smarter, people seem to lose more of their ability to think, never stopping […]
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