WEIRD ANIMALS
Buzzfeed: Your green thumb can bring all the bees to your yard. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2023 May 22 – A study of nearly 23,000 interactions between different species of bumblebees and flowers has determined what these environmentally important fuzzy buzzers like to …
Some of the cats involved in a trial of a new gene therapy contraceptive that could reduce the need for surgical spaying. Cincinnati Zoo – By Michael Irving 2023 Jun 06 – Getting your cat spayed is a normal part of pet ownership, but …
Fossil vanished shortly afterwards and was found again after a social media callout and donated to museum in Santa Cruz. The mastodon tooth is less than 1m years old, which is ‘new’ by fossil standards. Photograph: Jennifer Schuh/AP – Associated Press Last modified …
A study has found that a dog’s personality is determined by more than breed, environmental factors also play an important role. Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2023 May 30 – The bond between humans and dogs has existed for thousands of years. Often, the …
The controversial author on the importance of updating his landmark book on animal liberation, being ‘flexibly vegan’ and the ethical dangers of artificial intelligence for the non-human world. ‘I’ve had to develop a thicker skin’: philosopher Peter Singer. Photograph: Alletta Vaandering – The …
A bumblebee lands on the flowers of a white sloe bush. Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images – By Stephen Buchmann, Adjunct Professor of Entomology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona – Published: 2023 May 17 – As trees and …
Not just a pretty face: sloths could be superbug secret weapons. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2023 May 01 – Ever since French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, first described the sloth in 1749, the planet’s slowest moving mammal has had its work …
An artist’s reconstruction of the newly discovered rhynchosaur, Beesiiwo cooowuse, named in the language of the First Nations people indigenous to the area in which it was found. Gabriel Ugueto – By Paul McClure 2023 Apr 27 – Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison …
Study suggests antimicrobial used to promote livestock growth breeds bacteria more resistant to our natural defenses. A strain of E. coli more likely to evade our immune system’s first line of defense emerged as a result of using colistin as a growth promoter …
A female P. regius, another of the keen-sighted North American jumping spiders, which only grows to a maximum 0.87 in (22 mm) in size. Depositphotos View gallery – 3 images – By Bronwyn Thompson 2023 Apr 20 – Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the …
