The Bizarre Egg-Laying Mammal of the Cyclops Mountains
Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, photographed by a camera trap. Credit: Expedition CyclopsAn international team rediscovered the rare Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna in ...
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Scorpions’ venomous threat to mammals a relatively new evolutionary step
Despite their reputation as living fossils, scorpions have remained evolutionarily nimble — especially in developing venom to fend off the ...
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Splatoon 3 trailer shows new gameplay, teases the mystery of the mammals
Last night's Nintendo Direct presentation had a very fun segment about Splatoon 3, which ended with a chat with a ...
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Going up: birds and mammals evolve faster if their home is rising
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have combined reconstructions of the Earth’s changing surface elevations over the past three million ...
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Some birds steal hair from living mammals
“We know, of course, that birds use a variety of materials to line their nests,” Hauber said. “But why are ...
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Sixth sense of mammals lies in the eye
Mammals see with their eyes, hear with their ears and smell with their nose. But which sense or organ allows ...
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We don’t know how most mammals will respond to climate change, warn scientists
A new scientific review has found there are significant gaps in our knowledge of how mammal populations are responding to ...
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Whisker simulation gives insight into mammals’ sense of touch
We know your cat’s whiskers are handsome — but you can’t even see the cool part. The base of the ...
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