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Researchers decode how elephants form "sentences," lending insight to their complex communication
Salon via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSo finding this capacity between elephants, although quite expected for people who know elephants,...
Progress on the science of menstruation—at last
The Economist· 7 hours agoIn 77AD, Pliny the Elder claimed that contact with menstrual blood would turn crops barren and drive dogs mad. A medieval medical text warned that the...
Opalised fossil of “echidnapus” discovered
Cosmos· 3 days ago“It’s the first evidence we’ve seen of an ‘echidnapus’ – a species which looks like it could have been ancestral to all of the living monotremes,” says...
Visitors can now see new baby animals at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 days agoNamed Patrick, the Dama gazelle is providing hope for the rarest of all gazelle species with fewer...
Human And Chimp DNA Is 98.8 Percent Identical – So How Are We So Different?
IFLScience· 1 day agoHumans and chimpanzees are thought to have split from a common ancestor around six million years...
Rare monkeys: Folly Farm hopes tamarins breed to help save species
BBC News· 4 days agoThere are only 2,000 adults left in the wild and they are on the critically endangered red list of...
What The Animal Kingdom’s Most Playful Adults Teach Us About Development
Inverse· 1 day agoWild chimpanzees have been studied for more than 60 years, but they continue to delight and surprise...
Crows can ‘count’ similarly to toddlers, according to new study
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 6 days agoBefore toddlers learn to master symbolic counting–where “one” stands for a single object and “two”...
Honk! These monkeys have truly legendary noses – now we better understand why they evolved
The Conversation· 7 days agoMale proboscis monkeys are known for their large, bulbous nose appendages. It’s a strange feature to evolve – with new research shedding light on their unlikely origin story.
Researchers decode how elephants form "sentences," lending insight to their complex communication
Salon.com· 2 days agoAfrican savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) are the world's largest living land-based animals,...