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In Kobe, a ten-year-old who hand-raised swallowtails trained his caterpillars to hate the smell of lavender, then watched the butterflies…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 26, 2026
The Greenland shark may live for nearly four centuries by doing almost everything slowly
By Daniel Moran · Aug 25, 2026
Mammal ancestors were long assumed to lay eggs, until a growth ring inside the thigh bone of a 236-million-year-old Argentine cynodont put…
Aug 25, 2026
Worker bees filtered 95 percent of a pesticide out of the food they stored on day two and only 86 percent by day ten, and in the same…
Aug 25, 2026
When pandemic traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge fell to levels not seen since the 1950s, San Francisco's white-crowned sparrows quickly…
Aug 25, 2026
Dog owners were 31% less likely to die from cardiovascular causes than non-owners in a major analysis, according to the American Heart…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 25, 2026
Twenty years of feeding records found wild Bornean orangutans repeatedly combining plants with documented medicinal properties more often…
Aug 25, 2026
Researchers attached an artificial muscle to a real seal whisker and found why seals can hunt in complete darkness
Aug 25, 2026
Researchers watched roughly 200 juvenile arapaima surface for air in bursts of up to 100 fish at once, each collective breath lasting less…
Aug 25, 2026
Female treefrogs given a chorus of potential mates became less selective, not more
Aug 24, 2026
Most humpback whale populations have rebounded from near-extinction over the past sixty years, but the Arabian Sea population
Aug 24, 2026