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Giant snails and other small wonders to seek while hiking in Maine
Bangor Daily News· 6 days ago“I just found a giant land snail in the woods!” I recently messaged a friend. When observing nature,...
People have observed animals self-medicate with plants for millennia
UPI· 6 days agoA remarkable body of accounts from ancient to medieval times describes self-medication by many...
Avian influenza has been found in some Minnesota wildlife, DNR reports
Post-Bulletin· 4 days agoWhile highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI or AI) started as a disease impacting Minnesota’s birds, cases have now been confirmed in bears, skunks and red foxes in the state. “It came back as positive for AI.”
Researchers identify promising protein candidate for metabolic disease treatment
Medical Xpress· 2 days agoUniversity of Saskatchewan (USask) research, which has been published in Communications Biology, highlights the discovery of the lipid-lowering effects of nesfatin-1-like ...
Molecular Identification of Fonsecaea monophora, Novel Agent of Fungal Brain Abscess
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· 7 days agoA 3-year-old boy was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, with headache for 3 weeks and 2 episodes of seizures. Fundoscopic examination ...
A Flattened, Bloody Raccoon on a Highway Isn’t Just a Bummer. It’s a Dire Warning.
Slate· 5 days agoLast March, a female Asiatic cheetah, dubbed Majrad by scientists, was killed by a car in Iran’s Semnan province. Majrad could have been the Asiatic cheetah’s salvation; instead, her demise ...
General Sherman passes health check, but world's largest trees face growing climate threats
KSBY San Luis Obispo· 4 days ago“The General Sherman tree is doing fine right now,” said Anthony Ambrose, executive director of the Ancient Forest Society, who led the expedition. It was the first time climbers had scaled ...
Animals self-medicate with plants − behavior people have observed and emulated for millennia
The Conversation· 7 days agoWhen a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists ...
Recovery of Brazil's Spix's macaw, popularized in animated 'Rio' films, threatened by climate change
Associated Press· 2 days agoAll Spix’s macaws are majestically blue in the blazing sun of Brazil’s Northeast, but each bird is...
General Sherman passes health check but world's largest trees face growing climate threats
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 7 days agoSEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California (AP) — High in the evergreen canopy of General Sherman, the world’s largest tree, researchers searched for evidence of an emerging threat to giant sequoias: bark beetles.