WEIRD ANIMALS
Possible outbreaks in China and Mongolia have brought bans on hunting and eating the rodents, which can carry the disease. Marmots in western China. Authorities in Mongolia have warned the animals may be carrying bubonic plague. Photograph: Jason Lee/Reuters – Reuters, last modified …
Image from Shutterstock – By Ian M. Mackay, Adjunct assistant professor, The University of Queensland 2020 Jul 01– Researchers have found a new strain of flu virus with “pandemic potential” in China that can jump from pigs to humans, triggering a suite of …
White polka-dotted black zebra foal spotted in Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. This portrait… Frank Liu – By GrrlScientist, Senior Contributor Science Rare Zebra Foal — With Polka-Dots!! — Spotted In Kenya | @GrrlScientist – A newborn zebra foal with bizarre …
By Michael Irving, 2020 Jun 17 – An artist’s impression of a mosasaur laying a soft-shelled egg, with a hatchling born soon after – Francisco Hueichaleo, 2020 – A strange fossil discovered in Antarctica almost a decade ago has finally been identified. Researchers …
Experiments reveal the tiny birds can see “non-spectral” colors that blend ultraviolet light with colors humans can see to create distinct hues we can’t. A male Broad-tailed Hummingbird photographed at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colorado, where researchers conducted field experiments …
By Michael Irving, 2020 Jun 11 – A scale drawing of the Batrachopus grandis. Dr Anthony Romilio – A strange set of fossilized footprints has been discovered in South Korea. According to paleontologists, they look an awful lot like crocodile tracks, except for one …
As Brood IX takes flight for the first time in 17 years, cicada lovers have their ears open. An adult magicicada cicada requires 17 years to complete development. (Getty Images / Ed Reschke) By Max Levy, SmithsonianMag.Com 2020 Jun 03 – Around this …
So-called gynandromorphs are rare, but they can teach us a lot about development and evolution. The face of a sweat bee (Megalopta amoena) that is half female (viewer’s left, bee’s right) and half male (viewer’s right, bee’s left) (Chelsey Ritner / Utah State …
By Erik Nelson, Phd Student, Philosophy, Dalhousie University 2020 May 28 – It is often thought that humans are different from other animals in some fundamental way that makes us unique, or even more advanced than other species. These claims of human …
By Genevieve Carlton – Most people have never heard of the Cerrejón coal mine, located in Colombia. The mine pumps out over 30 million tons of coal each year, and it’s also become a critical site for scientists. In fact, the coal …
