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Which Animal Has the Longest Pregnancy? The Answer May Surprise You
10+ hour, 14+ min ago (325+ words) Pregnancy can last just a few weeks in some animals, while others carry their young for many months. But there is one animal whose pregnancy is so long that it can stretch to almost two years. So, which animal has…...
Mussel Brains Reveal How Nervous Systems Survive Oxygen Starvation and
8+ hour, 43+ min ago (671+ words) When the tide recedes from a rocky Mediterranean shore, the mussels clinging to the stones simply close their shells and wait. Inside those shells, oxygen levels plummet, carbon dioxide accumulates, and the entire body shifts into a biochemical holding pattern…...
Bizarre squid relative found in Wyoming is unlike anything seen before
14+ hour, 16+ min ago (840+ words) A bizarre belemnite fossil from Wyoming has been identified as a new species, revealing the thickest known member of this ancient squid relative group. There’s a fossil in a Wyoming museum drawer that spent two decades being, essentially, a mystery…...
Adult females of a millipede newly described from the Kazakh Altai have almost no second pair of legs, the subadult females still have them, and in both of the only two adult females collected the flattened leg bases block the genital opening
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (705+ words) The reduction appears to be unique in the millipede order Polydesmida, and in both known adult females the flattened leg bases sit over the vulva like a lid. More than forty adult males came out of the same litter sample, and…...
Bird Guts Are a Dead End for Stick Insect Eggs, Digestion Experiments
23+ hour, 39+ min ago (793+ words) Stick and leaf insects are among the most accomplished masters of disguise in the animal kingdom, but their most remarkable imitation may be the one nobody watches happen. The eggs of many phasmid species look uncannily like plant seeds, complete…...
BBC Audio | Asia Specific | Why are Australia’s native animals going extinct?
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (231+ words) Australia is home to some of the world's most distinctive wildlife — nearly 90% of its mammals exist nowhere else on Earth. But Australia is also where a mammal extinction is happening at an alarming pace. Species are disappearing at a rate…...
The tadpoles that don't care about their siblings
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (264+ words) Kyoto, Japan -- Amphibian larvae -- often known as tadpoles -- exhibit a behavior known as social aggregation, where they gather together as a way to avoid predators. These interactions are evidence of their association preferences, or their tendency to recognize members of…...
Time capsule: Looking for a few good wood frog
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (691+ words) Note: This article was originally published 30 years ago, on Aug. 7, 1996. Brian Barnes and author Ned Rozell have since retired from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and scientists now know that the wood frog’s internal body temperature can dip to 0.6 degrees…...
Nine Species of Deep-Sea Sponges Discovered in Alaska
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (943+ words) Scientists have discovered nine new species of sponges in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands. The specimens were collected during the Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s long-standing annual bottom trawl surveys, which monitor the condition of groundfish and shellfish stocks…...
How can deep-sea organisms survive under extreme pressure?
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (180+ words) A research team, led by Professor Gaku Fukuhara of Kyushu University’s Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering (IMCE), investigated this biological phenomenon. They focused on PoXeR, a protein from a deep-sea bacterium. Using a custom-built apparatus, they subjected the protein…...