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dinosaurs in mud

Massive Dinosaur Trackways Discovered on Britain’s Ancient ‘Highway’

Categories Life & Non-humans

Photo of a wild bird. To the right is a colorized transmission electron micrograph of H5N1 virus particles (purple). H5N1 bird flu is widespread in wild birds worldwide, and in 2024 is causing a multistate outbreak in poultry and U.S. dairy cows. NIAID and CDC

NIH Officials Call for Balanced Approach as H5N1 Virus Shows Expanding Reach

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans

Fruit flies are typically vulnerable to parasitic wasps, but some have acquired a bacterial gene that grants them resistance. This adult Drosophila melanogaster has two dark, melanin-coated cysts in its abdomen, marking the remains of wasp eggs that the fly successfully neutralized.

Fruit Flies Steal Bacterial Genes to Fight Off Parasitic Wasps

Categories Life & Non-humans

Locust swarm fills the skies in Ethiopia Credit: Keith Cressman, FAO

New Tool Helps Predict and Control Devastating Locust Swarms

Categories Life & Non-humans, Technology

Illustration of imaginary scientists using a steampunk machine to produce DNA-stored data

New DNA Storage Method Uses ‘Molecular Movable Type’ to Write Data

Categories Life & Non-humans, Technology

Parma wallabies at a private enclosure at Yengo, Mount Wilson in New South Wales. Photo: Professor George Wilson/ANU

Private Sanctuaries Could Hold Key to Saving Vulnerable Wallaby

Categories Life & Non-humans

Monkeys exhibited an immediate response to images of snakes and salamanders with snake skin, but not to images of salamanders without scale.

Snake Scales, Not Shape, Trigger Primate Threat Detection

Categories Life & Non-humans

Recently excavated mastodon tooth, still embedded in the jaw

Ice Age Giant Emerges from New York Backyard

Categories Life & Non-humans

This fossil, preserved roughly 47 million years ago, has a such a strange assortment of features that scientists were unable to find a plant family, living or extinct, to which it might belong.

Ancient ‘Alien Plant’ Shatters Beliefs About Earth’s Botanical History

Categories Life & Non-humans

An adult California vole at the study site and b an adult female California ground squirrel consuming the head of a freshly hunted adult California vole

California Ground Squirrels Caught Hunting Voles in a Carnivorous Twist

Categories Life & Non-humans

Illustration showing the difference between natural and artificial light at night on a coral reef

Night Falls, Lights On: How Artificial Light Unleashes Predators and Disrupts Coral Reef Harmony

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans

A reconstruction of the oldest known gorgonopsian in life.

Fossil Find of Saber-Toothed Predator Rewrites Early Mammal Evolution

Categories Life & Non-humans

A green turtle comes up for air. Like many air-breathing marine megafauna, green turtles optimise their swim depth during migration to minimise the cost of transport, travelling at around three body-depths beneath the surface in order to avoid creating waves whilst maximising horizontal distance travelled (Picture © R. D. and B. S. Kirkby).

Marine Animals Find Energy-Saving Sweet Spot for Ocean Travel

Categories Life & Non-humans, Physics & Mathematics

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