Bears notably reduce their mass over winter, using up their fat stores during hibernation. Yet a few mammals actively shrink their skeletons, skulls and brains by 20 per cent or more as cold ...
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates 14.5 million wild vertebrate animals are killed on Oregon’s roadways ...
New research shows how the Greenland shark’s heart keeps working for centuries by tolerating aging rather than avoiding it.
Top paleontologists have discovered that mating between some species of prehistoric behemoths was so violent that they ...
A new study finds mosquitoes in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest are increasingly feeding on humans as deforestation reduces wildlife ...
Whales, dolphins and other marine mammals are highly social, but those social ties can also help diseases spread through ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
W hat female mosquitoes choose to feed on has a bearing on human health, since they transmit pathogens from one host to ...
“Not only do these spiders occasionally catch small vertebrates – mice, rats, frogs, lizards, snakes – they also catch bulky ...
Mosquitoes ’ thirst for human blood is rising, reveals new research. Scientists found that some of the blood-sucking insects ...
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The first vertebrates to reach the moon were Soviet tortoises, Zond 5, the 1968 lunar flyby, and the secret biology mission
In September 1968, the Soviet Union’s Zond 5 mission looped around the Moon and returned safely to Earth with two tortoises and a hidden biological payload, a quiet first in the lunar race. What came ...
Scientists found that some mosquitoes really are targeting humans more than other food sources, but it could be a matter of ...
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