WEIRD ANIMALS
Is it that same busy squirrel you’re watching every day? Julian Avery, CC BY-ND 2020 May 11 By Julian Avery, Assistant Research Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Pennsylvania State University Julian Avery, Pennsylvania State University – Watching the wildlife outside your window …
By Nick Lavars 2020 May 07 – The Cape honey bee has an ability to reproduce daughters asexually, and scientists have now pinpointed the gene that makes this possible. Binty/Depositphotos. – Scientists investigating the genetics underlying a peculiar behavior in South Africa’s Cape honey …
By Ben Coxworth 2020 May 07 – Echis carinatus, found mainly in India, is a member of the highly-venomous saw-scaled viper genus. Dr. Raju Kasambe/C.C. 4.0. – When someone gets bitten by a venomous snake, it’s crucial to administer an antivenom as soon as …
Antibodies from Winter, a 4-year-old llama with great eyelashes, have neutralized coronavirus and other infections in lab experiments. Winter, center, a llama on a farm run by Ghent University in Belgium. Credit: Tim Coppens – By Jillian Kramer 2020 May 06 – Leer …
The Asian giant hornet, which became more active in the state in April, is the world’s largest and can kill humans with multiple stings. Alarm over deaths of bees from rapidly spreading viral disease – By Amanda Holpuch in New York, @holpuch 2020 …
By Rich Haridy, 2020 Apr 28 – New research suggests very few mammals have the ability to metabolize ethanol as effectively as humans, meaning it wouldn’t take much fermented fruit to get an elephant intoxicated. fouroaks/Depositphotos. – New research from a team of Canadian …
By Michael Irving 2020 Apr 30 – New tail fossils reveal that Spinosaurus was an aquatic dinosaur. neilld/Depositphotos. – A new Spinosaurus fossil has revealed that this gigantic predatory dinosaur was a proficient swimmer. The first fossil of the creature’s tail has been discovered, …
The researchers gathered data from 166 surveys of insect abundance around the world, mostly conducted since the 1980s. A new analysis of insect abundance surveys finds the decline may not be as dire as previously thought. (Photo by Charles J Sharp via Wikimedia …
Paleontologists seek the ancestors that could explain how bats became the only flying mammals. Reconstruction of Palaeochiropteryx (Wiki Commons / Obisian Soul) By Riley Black, SmithsonianMag.Com – 2020 Apr 21 – Listen carefully on a quiet summer night and you might hear them. …
While the virus seems capable of infecting some pets and wild animals, these cases probably aren’t occurring often. Research suggests humans can occasionally pass the new coronavirus to cats. But felines are very unlikely to be a source of transmission back to humans. …
