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Zoology

Anoles are kind of like the chicken nuggets of the forest.

Lizards Use Underwater Bubble Breathing to Evade Predators, Study Finds

Categories Life & Non-humans
Infographic of eels in predator stomach

Eel Escape Artists: Japanese Eels Found to Flee Predator’s Stomach

Categories Life & Non-humans
Araneus ventricosus with two ensnared male fireflies Abscondita terminalis

Clever Spider Tricks Fireflies: Manipulates Bioluminescent Signals to Attract More Prey

Categories Life & Non-humans
blind cave fish

Blind cavefish have extraordinary taste buds

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans
In 2016, researchers supported by FAPESP had shown that tegu lizards reach higher temperatures than the burrows they inhabit in spring. This new study has found a physiological explanation for the phenomenon

Tegu Lizards Display Unexpected Endothermic Abilities, Challenging Reptile Classification

Categories Life & Non-humans
Komodo tooth iron map. Credit: Dr Aaron LeBlanc

Komodo dragons have iron-coated teeth to rip apart their prey

Categories Life & Non-humans
A sandhopper found around 30cm beneath the beach surface at Portwrinkle, Cornwall (UK). The creature had elevated its magnesium levels to enter a torpid state meaning it could survive the cold winter months

Is magnesium the sleeping potion that enables sandhoppers to survive cold winters?

Categories Life & Non-humans
Dr. Emma Schachner with a red-tailed hawk at the UF College of Veterinary Medicine.

Soaring Birds Use Unique Lung Structure to Enhance Flight, Study Finds

Categories Life & Non-humans
Illustration of the body plan of a toothed whale, with a cross section of the head showing the melon (dark yellow) and the extramandibular fat bodies (light yellow) which are key organs for using sound such as echolocation. (Hayate Takeuchi, Takashi Fritz Matsuishi, Takashi Hayakawa. Gene. January 20, 2024)

Toothed whale echolocation organs evolved from jaw muscles

Categories Life & Non-humans, Physics & Mathematics
Cnemaspis vangoghi

Starry Night Inspired Lizard Discovered in India

Categories Life & Non-humans
Ohio State logo

In paleontology, correct names are keys to accurate study

Categories Technology
Bothriechis rahimi

Five dazzling new species of eyelash vipers discovered in Colombia and Ecuador

Categories Life & Non-humans
Figure 1. (A) Reconstructed Caudipteryx © Christophe Hendrickx. Used under the terms of the Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 3.0). Licensing details: [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en]. (B) Robopteryx, imitating the morphology of Caudipteryx, positioned in front of a grasshopper in the field (marked by a red arrow). (C) Grasshopper tested in the experiments.

Feathered Dinosaurs’ Surprising Purpose: Scaring, Not Flying

Categories Life & Non-humans
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