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Monkeys can learn to tap to the beat of the Backstreet Boys

Fri, 05/10/2024 - 4:00am
With a bit of training, macaques can make rhythmic movements in time with music, an ability only shown before by a handful of animals
Categories: Fossils

Can genetically modifying a rare marsupial save it from extinction?

Wed, 05/08/2024 - 12:31am
Researchers are aiming to make the northern quoll resistant to the toxic cane toads wiping it out in Australia, but little progress has been made
Categories: Fossils

Longest-living cat breeds revealed by life expectancy study

Tue, 05/07/2024 - 8:00pm
Birman and Burmese cats typically live for more than 14 years while sphynxes live less than half as long on average, finds a study of pet cats in the UK
Categories: Fossils

Sperm whale clicks could be the closest thing to a human language yet

Tue, 05/07/2024 - 11:00am
Analysis of thousands of exchanges between the intelligent cetaceans suggests they combine short click patterns – similar to letters of the alphabet - into longer sequences
Categories: Fossils

Zebras bob their heads at each other to signal cooperation

Mon, 05/06/2024 - 7:00am
Head-bobbing seems to be a way for zebras to invite others to groom, graze or move together, suggesting sophisticated social and cognitive capabilities
Categories: Fossils

Stink bugs grow a fungal garden on their legs to fight parasitic wasps

Mon, 05/06/2024 - 3:00am
A surprise discovery has revealed that female stink bugs have a small indent on their hind legs that they use for cultivating fungi before spreading it on their eggs
Categories: Fossils

Jurassic Park to The Martian: 5 movies that get botany (mostly) wrong

Sat, 05/04/2024 - 5:00am
From Jurassic Park to The Martian, botanist James Wong explores the major science fiction films that get botany spectacularly wrong
Categories: Fossils