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Watch Orcas Play With (Read: Obliterate) Their Food
5+ day, 12+ hour ago (395+ words) 7:00 AM CDT on July 23, 2026 As spectacular (and somewhat gruesome) underwater sights go, this one is right up there: a pair of orcas teaming up to ram a sharp-tail sunfish so forcefully that it explodes into tiny pieces. The only good…...
The Bird-Singing Contests That Are Fueling a Conservation Crisis
1+ week, 13+ hour ago (1053+ words) Millions of Southeast Asian songbirds are trapped and trafficked every year 5:00 PM CDT on July 20, 2026 On a Sunday afternoon in April, the main minibus terminal in Sukabumi, Indonesia, looked sleepy from the outside. But in an open space round the…...
Monkeys Interpret Shapes Similarly to Humans
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (317+ words) The continuum of geometric intuition from people to other primates 2:01 PM CDT on July 20, 2026 Among the many markers of human intelligence, we view ourselves as superior to other primates in geometric intuition. We readily distinguish regular geometric shapes with features…...
What Satellite Photos of Penguin Poop Tell Us About Earth’s Health
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (379+ words) Climate change is painting with an Adélie penguin palette on Antarctic ice floes 11:00 AM CDT on July 20, 2026 Penguin poo, or guano, is a popular resource. Nests for penguin eggs are bowl-shaped depressions that the parents hollow into piles of guano…...
How Fruit Flies Tell What Time of Year It Is Without a Calendar
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (143+ words) How do they know to take a break during the winter? 9:30 AM CDT on July 20, 2026 As a workhorse model organism for circadian research, fruit flies have an extremely well-studied biological clock. One of the clock genes, timeless, is integral to…...
What Became of the Chimps Who Revolutionized Our Understanding of Animal Behavior?
1+ week, 3+ day ago (328+ words) It’s a harrowing tale of deadly winters in Berlin captivity 11:00 AM CDT on July 17, 2026 “These chimpanzees are usually remembered for what they revealed about the mind,” said Virués-Ortega in a press release. “We wanted to ask the historical question textbooks…...
New, Orange-Lipped Monkey Discovered in Africa
1+ week, 5+ day ago (380+ words) It’s one of only a handful of new monkey species identified on the continent in the last 75 years 1:01 PM CDT on July 15, 2026 By now, you’d think we’d have a handle on all the other primates sharing the Earth with us....
How the Rule-Breaking Octopus Is Rewriting the Evolution of Intelligence
2+ week, 3+ day ago (216+ words) Cephalopods are loners, but they’re also intelligent 5:30 PM CDT on July 10, 2026 Humans have remarkably large brains for our bodies (no offense), but why? In many animals, especially mammals, there does seem to be a correlation between social group size and…...
How This Mouse Lives at a Higher Elevation Than Any Other Vertebrate
2+ week, 4+ day ago (212+ words) It’s become uniquely suited to handle below-freezing temperatures and a diet of poisonous plants 1:01 PM CDT on July 9, 2026 “We discovered mechanisms of adaptation to hypoxic cold stress,” concluded the study authors, “and our experiments provide insights into the physiological features…...
If You Want Animals to Understand You, Speak Slowly
2+ week, 4+ day ago (727+ words) A new study suggests almost all animal communication shares a common, slow rhythm 11:00 AM CDT on July 9, 2026 Birds chirp, sing, and squawk. Cats purr and snarl. Insects click and hiss. Most of these sounds are meant for members of the…...