animals
Long hidden under trees, it’s utterly massive.
Thanks to museum curators, there’s no shortage of the stuff.
Is everyone’s favorite Thanksgiving centerpiece really to blame for the post-dinner doldrums?
Orangutans join humans and bees in a very exclusive club
Dogs’ floppy ears may be part of why they and other domesticated animals love humans so much.
Dozens of mummified cats were dug up this week. This isn’t as shocking as you might think.
As long as we fail to name capitalism as a key cause of mass extinction, we will remain powerless to break its tragic story.
They’re creating an unprecedented map of Earth to help government leaders make better decisions in regard to climate change.
Is beauty always a proxy for genetic health and fitness? Charles Darwin didn’t think so.
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As enjoyable as it is to be a couch potato, humans were built to run.
Assigning human values and morals to wild animals will only end in heartbreak. And possible necrophilia.
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The modern ocean can be a dangerous place for whales.
She’s not held back by other animals’ numeracy limitations.
The natural world evolved many pop culture frights long before storytellers used them to terrify us.
Maybe the only chance they have to tell their story before they’re gone.
Why cute images are a productivity hack
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People were about to start hunting grizzly bears in Yellowstone again, for the first time in 40 years. Thankfully, that has now been blocked.
It’s not yet clear why this is happening, but there are plenty of suspects
Notice anything different? The biggest ideas of the 21st century just got a makeover.
If you want to know what makes a Canadian lynx a Canadian lynx a team of DNA sequencers has figured that out.
We’re more dependent on them than we realize.
Roaming horny hippos obtained illegally by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar? It’s a heck of a true story.
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The biologists who revealed why zebras have black-and-white stripes now also have a theory on the black-and-white fur of giant pandas.
Jonathon Keats proposes a “Reciprocal Biomimicry Initiative” to help return the favor after taking so many great ideas from them.
Descartes’ solitary, inward-facing mindset misconstrues the social nature of our thinking. Social Cartesianism better captures the soul of what matters in distinguishing humans from animals or machines.
New research produces surprising results about which animals are the smartest.