A bear might seem like the scariest thing you could run into in a national park. But a new study suggests maybe you should be more worried about elk. Out of nearly 3,000 wildlife…
Category: Life
Study Supports and Expands the Primate Brain Lag Hypothesis
Summary: A new study has completely revived and expanded this lost chapter of human evolution. Leveraging modern molecular genetic dating and advanced phylogenetic statistical modeling, researchers revisited the classic dataset.…
Young gulls’ drab plumage may help them avoid adult attacks
While many bird species go from egg to adult in months, some seabirds spend years in a sort of awkward adolescent phase, sporting darker, drabber plumage than the adults. In…
A new species of walking shark has been found in Papua New Guinea
It sounds like a scene out of a horror movie: a shark that can walk. In reality, walking sharks “are the cutest sharks that you’ll ever see,” says marine scientist…
Rafael Cabral Borges | Bee community assembly is regulated by functional traits in pristine tropical forest environments – Functional Ecologists
In this ‘Behind the paper’ blog post, author Rafael Cabral Borges – a postdoctoral fellow at the Vale Institute of Technology in Belém, Brazil – discusses his paper “Bee community…
Crabs can’t hide from an octopus with a mirror
Mirrors are tricky. Even humans aren’t born with an intuitive understanding of them; we have to learn how they work. Now, scientists have discovered that the California two-spot octopus (Octopus…
Viral Infection Found to Trigger Parkinson’s Brain Damage
Summary: Parkinson’s disease affects more than 10 million people globally, standing second only to dementia among devastating neurological disorders. The disease is pathologically characterized by the progressive destruction of dopamine-producing…
A discovery about this bat’s diet was hiding in a Renaissance painting
Last fall, scientists documented the greater noctule bat snatching songbirds out of the air for a snack. But while this was a finding relatively new to science, a Renaissance artist…
