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Life & Non-humans

A real fly (right) lands on a daisy petal next to the fake fly (left)

Deceptive daisy’s ability to create fake flies explained

University of Cambridge
Categories Life & Non-humans
Pigs on a farm Credit: Harriet Bartlett

New animal welfare scoring system could enable better-informed food and farming choices

University of Cambridge
Categories Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences
A reconstruction of Thylacosmilus atrox

How the “marsupial sabertooth” thylacosmilus saw its world

American Museum of Natural History
Categories Life & Non-humans
Dog in bed

Your loveable pet dog or cat could lead to restless nights

CABI
Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans
Cute tasmanian devil

Humans are altering the diet of Tasmanian devils, which may accelerate their decline

University of New South Wales
Categories Life & Non-humans
African frog on a bright green leaf. Photo Credit: Copyright 2010 by Eli Greenbaum

‘The Last of Us’ fungus attacking African amphibians

San Francisco State University
Categories Life & Non-humans
A mouse covering its eyes

Humans are not just big mice

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Categories Health, Life & Non-humans
Mosquito closeup

Humans bite back by deactivating mosquito sperm

UC Riverside
Categories Health, Life & Non-humans
Figure 1: A Relict Glacier near Mars’ Equator. (NASA MRO HiRISE and CRISM false color composite. Lee et al. 2023).

Glacier near Mars equator implies water possibly present today

SETI Institute
Categories Life & Non-humans, Space
Gorilla spinning in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda

Dizzy apes provide clues on human need for mind altering experiences

University of Birmingham
Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans
Example of a long-tailed macaque using a stone tool to access food.

Surprising similarities found in stone tools of early humans and monkeys

Max Planck Institute
Categories Life & Non-humans
Black widow spiders have earned a fearsome reputation for their venomous bite. But in parts of the southern United States these spiders have much to fear themselves—from spider relatives who really don't like their company. In the past couple decades, researchers have noticed black widow spiders (adult female shown at right) commonly being displaced by the brown widow (adult female at left), a fellow species in the same genus, Latrodectus. But new research suggests this isn't a just simple case of one species winning the competition for food or habitat. Instead, a study shows brown widow spiders have a striking propensity to seek out and kill nearby black widows. (Note: Images are not shown to matching scale and thus do not reflect relative sizes of the two spiders.)

Brown widow spiders’ aggression likely driver of black widow decline

University of South Florida
Categories Life & Non-humans
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