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The U.S. Postal Service will still carry boxes of newborn chickens, ducks, geese, quail and even emus — but they must enter the mail within 24 hours of hatching and be deliverable within 72
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (535+ words) A century-old loophole lets farmers mail millions of live birds across the country—as long as they're still damp from the egg. Published September 10, 2026 · How we edit Somewhere in America right now, a cardboard box is chirping. That box is…...
Brainless sea-sponge larvae use sunset cues to prep their cells, then attach to a surface in about 30 minutes once night falls, in a lineage roughly 700 million years old
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (159+ words) Ancient sea sponges have no brain, yet somehow know to chemically rewire their cells at dusk, positioning themselves for the crucial moment of settling into stone. By Lab Report · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 7, 2026 · How we edit That timing…...
Before 2018, sulphur-crested cockatoos had been reported opening bins in just three Sydney suburbs; by late 2019, the behaviour had reached 44 — spreading outward through neighbouring areas and developing local techniques, evidence that the birds were creating a culture through social learning rather than inheriting the trick genetically.
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (1444+ words) By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 6, 2026 · How we edit A sulphur-crested cockatoo opening a wheelie bin does not simply flick up a loose lid. The bird grips the edge with its beak, raises the heavy plastic, holds…...
A coyote somehow swam two miles to Alcatraz, vanished before cameras could find him again, and DNA in his droppings revealed he had crossed from Angel Island, not nearby San Francisco as biologists expected
1+ week, 3+ day ago (713+ words) By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 2, 2026 · How we edit Alcatraz was built on the assumption that its water would do the guarding. Cold, fast and mean enough that, per Associated Press reporting on the island’s history, 36 men attempted 14 escapes…...
When pandemic traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge fell to levels not seen since the 1950s, San Francisco's white-crowned sparrows quickly began singing more softly — yet in the quieter city their songs could be heard from roughly twice as far away
2+ week, 4+ day ago (663+ words) In the spring of 2020, San Francisco went quiet. The parks were closed, the roads through them empty, and the low mechanical hum that had covered the city for decades drained away. Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit That is the heart…...
Primatologist Shirley Strum has spent more than fifty years following the same olive baboons in Kenya, and what she found was not a hierarchy of aggressive males but a society running on friendship, memory of who helped whom, and constant negotiation
3+ week, 1+ day ago (600+ words) Shirley Strum's decades of fieldwork on olive baboons in Kenya reshaped how biologists think about primate societies, replacing a model built on male aggression with one built on long-term female relationships and something that looks, from the outside, like a…...
A lion’s heart makes up only about half a percent of its body weight. A spotted hyena’s is close to one percent — roughly twice as large proportionally, helping give the animal we dismiss as a scavenger the endurance to outlast the animal we call king.
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1220+ words) The spotted hyena's proportionally large heart fits an endurance-hunting body, while the lion is built to shorten a chase. The comparison also exposes the scavenger myth. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 17, 2026 · How we edit Put a…...