2+ hour, 28+ min ago  (1704+ words) Honeybees pass their math test, upending an animal intelligence debate " Phys. org We've run the numbers and the verdict is in: Honeybees do have the ability to process numerical information. New research led by Monash University has now addressed recent…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (606+ words) This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. In case you missed Allison Mc Henry's diary today, she will no longer post a new diary daily, but will instead update that diary as issues…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago  (262+ words) This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication. How did these frogs become so poisonous? How did this survival strategy evolve? Such an extreme system could not have sprung up from nowhere. A new…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago  (810+ words) We don't know when humans first domesticated horses. We do know that horses first evolved in North America and then migrated across the Bering Land Bridge into Asia. About 8, 000 years ago, the horse became extinct in North America. The domestication…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (335+ words) This week I'll talk about the lovebirds flying free in Phoenix. Back in 2000 we lived for almost a year in a rundown trailer park in east Mesa; it was pretty grim, but it was what we could afford at the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (504+ words) Administration Note: This article was a draft to be used when no other was available." The upcoming change to Daily Kos prompts us to submit it to publication or it would be discarded." We hope you enjoy the content. The…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (231+ words) Another in an occasional series about birds." This entry included pictures of wood ducks. We start with a pair of wood ducks standing on logs by a pond. "This picture highlights the different look of males and females. "(It also…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1318+ words) The Princess and The Frog" by Black Kos Editor, Justice Putnam The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1793+ words) They also claimed territory as far south as the Arkansas River in what is now northern Arkansas, southwestern Kansas, and northeastern Oklahoma." As with many American Indian tribes, the name Osage is not what they called themselves. They called themselves…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (681+ words) I don't see a huge variety of ducks in my local waters so when I'm observing aquatic birds I'm more enjoying the beauty and activity of the regulars, rather than wide diversity. Most of the time I'm watching these four…...