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How Humpback Whale Song Dialects Shift Over Decades and What Cultural Transmission Tells Us

The Song That Crosses an OceanIn 1998, marine biologist Michael Noad and his colleagues at the University of Queensland documented something that had no clean explanation at the time. Two humpback whales off the east coast of Australia were singing a song-type that belonged to the west coast population, a…

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The Venus Flytrap Can Count to Five: What Plant Intelligence Reveals About Cognition

The Plant That Counts Its PreyA venus flytrap will not close on the first touch. It waits. A second touch to its trigger hairs within about twenty seconds closes the trap. A third starts electrical signaling. A fifth touch releases digestive enzymes. The plant is counting, not metaphorically, but in…

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Why Cats Bring Dead Prey to Their Owners: The Feline Hunting Instinct Explained

Cats hunt even when they are not hungryDomestic cats are obligate carnivores with a predator's neural wiring that does not switch off when a bowl of kibble is full. A 2013 study published in Nature Communications tracked free-roaming cats across the United States and found that they kill between 1.3…

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Mountain lions may be making roads safer in Washington, because deer change their behaviour when pumas are nearby, and collisions drop

New research indicates mountain lions reduce deer-vehicle collisions significantly. Predator presence makes deer avoid roads and developed areas more often. This behavioural shift lowers the likelihood of dangerous animal-vehicle encounters. The study examined deer movement and collision data in Washington's Olympic Peninsula. These findings highlight the broader ecological roles of…

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Scientists found ants have been running tiny 'Dairy Farms' for 35 million years, and the sweet reward explains why

Ants and aphids share an ancient mutualistic relationship for nourishment and protection. Ants herd aphids, receiving sugary honeydew and protein from them. In return, ants defend aphids from predators and parasitoids. This partnership has evolved over millions of years, with some associations becoming obligate. These interactions significantly impact ecological networks…

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How Animals That Live in Darkness Evolved Their Extraordinary Adaptations and What They Teach Us

When Eyes Become ExpensiveThe Mexican blind cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus, is the same species as its sighted river-dwelling relatives. Put them side by side and you see almost identical bodies, except the cave population has no eyes at all, just smooth skin where the sockets would be. This happened across roughly…

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Moken sea nomads living on the Andaman Sea can see underwater like dolphins: Scientists discover how this Indigenous tribe trained their eyes to develop superhuman vision

Scientists have confirmed that Moken sea nomad children living on the Andaman Sea can see underwater with twice the clarity of other children, constricting their pupils to dolphin-like precision through years of ocean training. But the tribe that produced this extraordinary ability is itself quietly disappearing, pushed off their boats…

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How Animals See Ultraviolet Light and What Their Vision Reveals About Color and Perception

The part of light we never seeSunlight contains far more than what human eyes register. The visible spectrum, the band of wavelengths our photoreceptors detect, runs roughly from 380 to 700 nanometres. Ultraviolet light sits just below that, between 10 and 380 nanometres. We cannot see it. Many animals can,…

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How the Archerfish Spits Water at Insects With Ballistic Precision and Rarely Misses

A Fish That Solves Physics Without Knowing ItThe archerfish fires a jet of water at an insect sitting on a branch above the surface and hits it. Not sometimes. Routinely. From distances of up to three metres, with a brain that weighs less than a gram. The species most studied…

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Olive Ridley Turtles Return to Odisha's Coast in Millions, and the Arribada Is Fragile

The Night the Beach Disappears Under TurtlesAt Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary on Odisha's northern coast, rangers have counted over 600,000 Olive Ridley turtles nesting in a single arribada, a Spanish word adopted by biologists for this mass synchronised nesting that has no equivalent in any other reptile species. The females arrive…

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Sleeping Less Than 7 Hours a Week Wrecks Your Decision-Making and Judgment More Than You Realise

Your Brain Lies to You About How Impaired You AreThe most dangerous thing about sleeping less than 7 hours is not the tiredness. It is the confidence. A landmark study by Hans Van Dongen at the University of Pennsylvania tracked participants restricted to 6 hours of sleep per night for…

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Animal Memory Research Is Overturning Everything We Thought We Knew About Cognition

The assumption that crumbled firstThe standard view held that episodic memory, the ability to mentally replay a specific past event, not just respond to a learned cue, was uniquely human. Then came a 1998 study by Nicola Clayton and Anthony Dickinson at Cambridge University, published in Nature, that changed the…

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How Sea Turtles Navigate Thousands of Miles Back to Their Natal Beach Decades Later

The Imprint Happens on the Very First NightA loggerhead sea turtle hatchling weighs about 20 grams when it breaks out of its shell. Within hours, it is already doing the most important thing it will ever do: reading the Earth's magnetic field. Research published in Current Biology by Kenneth Lohmann…

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Octopuses just passed a mirror challenge few expected; scientists found they could use reflections to locate hidden prey in 73% of trials

In a groundbreaking discovery, octopuses have demonstrated an ability previously thought exclusive to vertebrates: using mirrors for navigation. Three California two-spot octopuses learned to locate hidden food by observing its reflection, a feat requiring complex spatial reasoning. This finding challenges our understanding of invertebrate intelligence and suggests a remarkable instance…

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Plant that mimics odour of half-eaten ants to attract pollinators discovered

Botanist says new Japanese species of dogbane is first evidence of plants copying ants

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27 Unfiltered Fun Facts About Animals Being Total Weirdos

Uncover 27 fun facts about animals in the animal kingdom! From weird penguin behavior to extraordinary cat quirks, explore these interesting facts about amazing species.

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People can be identified by their breathing patterns with 97% accuracy

Breathing patterns among humans are so unique that they can work as an identification tool, scientists report. They propose someday using breath as a way to diagnose disease.

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Scientists stunned to witness two injured deep-sea ‘jelly’ creatures fuse into one

Findings may lead to better understanding of how transplanted tissue integrates into body

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Linking two realms: efforts to tap real-life potential of lucid dreams advance

Scientists show it is possible to control a virtual car and switch on real-world kettle from inside a lucid dream

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Great white sharks split into 3 populations 200,000 years ago and never mixed again — except for one hybrid found in the Bermuda Triangle

Scientists found three distinct great-white-shark populations that congregate in different oceans and do not interbreed. Their separation may have implications for conservation.

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Mysterious plague is wiping out sea urchins across the globe, scientists say

Expert warns urchins vital to coral reef ecosystems now ‘functionally extinct’ in Red Sea

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Mummified skin from creature that lived 290 million years ago is older than the dinosaurs

Crocodile-like skin from a reptile is 130 million years older than the previous record for fossilized skin, researchers say.

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Study finds use of habitat for agricultural purposes puts primate in danger

According to a study published in Current Biology, frequent trips to oil palm farms are significantly increasing mortality rates among baby southern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) in the wild. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Human voices are scarier for animals in African savannah than a lion’s growl

‘The fear of humans is ingrained and pervasive,’ study co-author says

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'Picky' elephant learns how to peel her own bananas in amazing video

Asian elephant Pang Pha is not a fan of banana peels which have started to go brown, and has been seen throwing them to the floor to peel it away and get to the ripe fruit

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