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Honeybees can recognize human faces " they can be trained to distinguish between individual humans by face and continue to recognize them across different viewpoints, despite having a brain smaller than the head of a pin
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New Zealand and New Caledonia are the only large fragments of Zealandia still poking above the ocean, meaning the country most travellers think of as a pair of islands is actually the exposed mountain peaks of a continent five times their size.
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (531+ words) Stand on Piha Beach west of Auckland at low tide. The black sand stretches toward the Tasman, the surf rolls in, and the horizon looks like the edge of the world. Published May 31, 2026 Everywhere else on the continent, the slow…...
A tiny jellyfish can reverse its own life cycle when injured or starving, turning back into its younger self instead of dying of old age like everything else
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Crows can recognise individual human faces, hold grudges against specific people for years, and teach those grudges to their offspring who have never met the human in question
2+ week, 2+ day ago (247+ words) A wild crow that has never seen you, never been trapped by you, never been harassed by you, can still recognize your face and scream at you from a tree because its parents told it to. By Space Daily Editorial…...
The mantis shrimp punches with the acceleration of a. 22 caliber bullet, generates flashes of light underwater from the force, and sees colours through 16 types of photoreceptor " humans have three
2+ week, 2+ day ago (32+ words) The mantis shrimp's strike is so violent it boils the water around it " and the science of how a four-inch crustacean does this rewrites assumptions about what biological tissue can survive....
UK zoo says tiny snail 'back from brink' of extinction
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (386+ words) The greater Bermuda land snail had not been spotted for years until a cluster of shells was caught slithering through an alleyway in the capital Hamilton in 2014. Some were flown to Chester Zoo, where experts spent years building up the…...
Zoantharian cousins blur long held divide between Atlantic and Indo Pacific reefs
4+ mon, 9+ hour ago (652+ words) Space Daily Zoantharian cousins blur long held divide between Atlantic and Indo Pacific reefs The research, published in Frontiers of Biogeography, was led by Dr. Maria "Duda" Santos of the UH Manoa Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology To Bo Lab…...
China unveils decades spanning Landsat dataset to advance environmental research
10+ mon, 3+ day ago (348+ words) Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 30, 2025 China has released a comprehensive Landsat composite dataset covering nearly four decades of Earth observations. Spanning from 1985 to 2023, the new 30-meter resolution dataset introduces the first seamless, annual Leaf-On Landsat data cube for the country, significantly…...
Micro Carb satellite launches to map global carbon dioxide emissions from space
10+ mon, 3+ day ago (560+ words) Paris, France (SPX) Jul 25, 2025 The Micro Carb satellite, developed by the French space agency CNES in partnership with the UK Space Agency, has been successfully launched from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. As Europe's first mission dedicated to monitoring…...