Animals

Animals

Beat Goes On: Carp heart keeps pace when fish lacks oxygen

Without oxygen, a Scandinavian fish not only can survive but also maintains a normal heartbeat for days.

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Pirates of the Amphibian: Males fertilize eggs of another guy’s gal

For the first time among amphibians, scientists have found frogs that sneak their sperm onto egg clutches left by another mating pair.

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Super Bird: Cooing doves flex extra-fast muscles

Muscles that control a dove's cooing belong to the fastest class of muscles known.

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Owls use tools: Dung is lure for beetles

Burrowing owls' habit of bringing mammal dung to their burrows attracts edible beetles and counts as form of tool use.

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Mom bears more sons when she gets extra bouquets

When researchers spiff up a male starling's courtship by delivering some extra bouquets to his mate on his behalf, the couple tends to produce more sons than usual.

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Policing egg laying in insect colonies

Kinship by itself can't explain the vigilante justice of some ant, bee, and wasp workers.

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How dingoes got down under

DNA analysis suggests that Australia got its famous dingoes from a very few dogs brought along with people fanning out from East Asia some 5,000 years ago.

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Time to revise right whales’ family tree?

A statistical analysis of DNA from nearly 400 right whales around the world suggests there may be three species of Eubalena, not just two—a conclusion that may boost conservation efforts.

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Really big guys restrain youth violence

Importing six full-grown bull elephants into a park of youngsters stopped killing sprees by young males.

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Anybody know this fish?

A 2-month marine-biodiversity survey of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge concluded this week, bringing home much data and some novel specimens.

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Whys Guy

Interested in seeing an exploding watermelon, using liquid nitrogen to make ice cream, or knowing why a hurricane spins? Physicist Mats Selen of the University of Illinois has appeared regularly on a local morning TV program to demonstrate a wide variety of physical and chemical phenomena. View video clips of these entertaining presentations. Requires Windows […]

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Trail Mix: Espionage among the bees

Tests with two kinds of stingless bees suggest that the more aggressive species uses scent-based espionage to target raids on the milder species' food.