We humans recognize our friends by different things, like their smile, their voice, or the way they walk. Biologists have known for several decades that dolphins make friends, and that they recognize mates through their unique whistling. Surprising recent research shows that bottlenose dolphins use their sense of taste to distinguish the urine of their … Read more
“The research we are conducting is required by regulatory authorities around the world before marketing new life-saving drugs,” she wrote. For more than twenty years, Inotiv has been directly and indirectly involved in the development of alternative methods of biomedical research. Snicker could not immediately comment on the seizure of the dogs from the Invigo … Read more
Stung Treng, Cambodia When you see the Mekong River slowly flowing from Laos through sandy beaches and lush islands to neighboring Cambodia, it’s hard to imagine the amount of life beneath the mysterious river’s surface. An estimated 200 billion fish spawn in this part of the river alone, which is about 150 kilometers long, making … Read more
In fact, scientists do not know how many types of plants, animals, fungi and bacteria there are on Earth. According to the latest estimate, there will be 2 billion, and that will change at some point. One thing we do know: the western black rhino, the Tasmanian tiger and the woolly mammoth are among the … Read more
Imitation is a widespread phenomenon in the animal kingdom. Some caterpillars can be dangerous snakes. Young sooty sad tyrant, who lives in the Amazon, turns into poisonous larvae. In their evolution, hovercraft have adapted to resemble stinging and obnoxious wasps. They are all examples of batesian mimicry, an evolutionary trick in which a relatively harmless … Read more
Anyone who has to flee their home, neighborhood, city, or country during a war has to make difficult decisions about what to do with them. So did the many people who boarded one of the overcrowded and extremely limited trains in Ukraine. In the European Union there are rules that determine which pets are allowed … Read more
Anyone who has to flee their home, neighborhood, city, or country during a war has to make difficult decisions about what to do with them. So did the many people who boarded one of the overcrowded and extremely limited trains in Ukraine. In the European Union there are rules that determine which pets are allowed … Read more
Male spiders, at risk of being eaten by females, have developed a clever escape stunt: They shoot themselves in the air after sex. When Shichang Zhang observed this phenomenon in a sample of a rut orb of a species Philoponella prominensThis was the first ever observation of a male spider ejaculating itself to avoid sexual … Read more
The app, called “SEE Shell,” used machine learning to determine whether a tortoiseshell item was 94% real or fake. The app looks for distinct patterns that show if a substance is natural. According to Alexander Robillard, a Smithsonian OCIO Data Science Lab employee who developed the computer software behind the app, the technology is the … Read more
Beautiful parrots, more than half a meter in size with a bright yellow crest, originated in eastern Australia and the nearest islands there. Unlike the other 350 known species of parrot, the sulfur-tipped cockatoo thrives especially in urban areas. They are often considered a nuisance in cities due to their destructive behavior. For example, they … Read more