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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

Infographic of eels in predator stomach

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

Araneus ventricosus with two ensnared male fireflies Abscondita terminalis

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

blind cave fish

Blind cavefish have extraordinary taste buds

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

Komodo tooth iron map. Credit: Dr Aaron LeBlanc

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

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?

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

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

Cnemaspis vangoghi

Starry Night Inspired Lizard Discovered in India

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In paleontology, correct names are keys to accurate study

Bothriechis rahimi

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

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

Calotes wangi.

New reptile on the block: A new iguana species discovered in China

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