Can poisoned mice bombs save Guam?
Imagine you live on a small island with a diverse but delicate ecosystem. Now imagine that a non-native predator, say, a brown tree snake, makes its way to your shores […]
Category Archives: Animals
Sea turtle gets new limbs
It seems the world of prosthetics is continually taking remarkable leaps and bounds when it comes to helping people who’ve lost a leg walk again, or crafting a new arm […]
‘Super mega-pod’ of dolphins
The coast of San Diego got about 100,000 new visitors last week, though they won’t be checking out the famous zoo. Capt. Joe Dutra of sightseeing company Hornblower Cruises and […]
Mirror mirror in the trees, is that a leopard that I see?
We use mirrors to fix our hair and make sure we don’t change lanes into another car on the highway. Some people use them to measure cats’ intelligence. As exhibited […]
Greening the Shedd
It’s easy enough for we normal folk to buy LED lights, re-seal our windows or use the cold cycle in the wash to save some energy. But how do you […]
Spiders filmed climbing through the sky
If you don’t like spiders, don’t watch this video, because it is truly terrifying for arachnophobes. A man in Brazil filmed thousands of spiders seemingly skittering across the sky. They’re […]
Your dog is smarter (and sneakier) than you think
You might think your dog steals food off the table just to get your goat, but mostly it’s just because they love eating. But did you know that many dogs […]
What you can learn from pig poop
Yes, it’s gross, but any doctor or scientist will tell you that you can learn a lot from poop. What you eat, how much of it, whether you have an […]
How salmon find their way home
First pigeons, now sockeye salmon. It seems more animals are using cues radiating from the earth to navigate. While homing pigeons are now thought to use infrared sound waves to […]
I’d like to introduce you to the rat people
It’s us! Don’t worry, we’re not alone. Our entire clade is made up of rat-hamsters, rat-porpoises, rat-antelope and many, many more. That’s because we, the placentals, owe our ancestry to […]
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