WEIRD ANIMALS
Milko Marchetti – Stuck Squirrel. Milko Marchetti View 18 Images – By Abhimanyu Ghoshal 2024 Dec 11 – It can take hours – and sometimes several days – in the wilderness to shoot the kinds of photographs that capture our imagination and reveal lesser-known …
Jim Davis/CBS – By Lluís Montoliu, Investigador científico del CSIC, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB – CSIC) Published: 2024 Dec 04 – Garfield, star of the eponymous comic strip created by Jim Davis in 1978, is, like many of the cats that roam …
Actin filaments (pink) are affected by aging, but can be switched off via genes Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2024 Nov 02 – Not only have researchers identified how a common cellular protein affects aging, but they’ve tweaked the genes that produce it in …
Could kissing stem from primate bonding? A new study makes the case for it. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2024 Nov 01 – Most of us do it, be it romantic, familial, friendly or formal, but kissing among humans and where and how it …
Fluorescent microscope image of the animal cells with embedded chloroplasts (magenta) R. Aoki, Y. Inui, Y. Okabe et al. 2024 / Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B – By Michael Irving 2024 Oct 30 – Scientists in Japan have created hybrid plant-animal cells, …
Minghui Yuan – Cleaners in the Rainforest. Minghui Yuan / CUPOTY View 19 Images – By Abhimanyu Ghoshal 2024 Oct 29 – It’s that time of the year again. We’ve got our hands on the shortlisted pictures from the 2024 Close-up Photographer of the …
The sugar found in stingless bee honey has a raft of health benefits. DianitaKartika/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 – By Paul McClure 2024 Oct 27 – Honey from stingless bees contains large amounts of a unique sugar that’s not a major component of any …
Black is beautiful. Akeem Ranmal/500px via Getty Images – By Elizabeth Carlen, Living Earth Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and by Tyus Williams, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley Published: 2024 …
Family gathering: A herd grazing on the Mongolian Steppe. Photograph: Perou – The Observer – Horses – Interview Mike Power – Humans and horses have been entwined throughout history, one could not have thrived without the other, according to a new book that …
Entitled “The Demolition Squad,” this striking image by Germany’s Ingo Arndt shows a red wood ant doing its part to help dismember a blue ground beetle. Ingo Arndt Photography View 13 Images – By Michael Franco 2024 Oct 10 – For the 60th year …
