WEIRD ANIMALS
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. …
By Jessie Yeung, Julia Hollingsworth and Anna Kam, CNN – 2020 Apr 20 – Police in Adelaide tweeted a video showing a kangaroo hopping through the city with the captions “Protective Security Officers tracked a suspect wearing a grey fur coat hopping through …
The animal trekked an average of 28 miles per day, covering a distance of 2,175 miles during her journey from Spitsbergen to Ellesmere Island. The little fox that could (Elise Stromseng/Norwegian Polar Institute) – By Meilan Solly, SmithsonianMag.Com – On March 26, 2018, …
Pride of eight lions photographed snoozing on tarmac in Kruger National Park Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage – By Helen Sullivan, @helenrsullivan 2020 Apr 16 – Last modified on Fri 2020 Apr 17 – 07.56 EDT – This lion …
The containment practices of outbreaks past could have lessons for modern epidemics The epidemic claimed the lives of some 8 million pigs by spring of 2014. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images) By Katherine J. Wu, SmithsonianMag.Com 2020 Apr 10 – In the spring of 2013, …
By Katie Hunt, CNN 2020 Apr 09 – Paleontologists crossing the Río Yurúa in Amazonian Perú, with the Santa Rosa fossil site in the background. – A crew of now-extinct monkeys made a treacherous transatlantic journey on a natural raft from …
