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November 7 2023, 7:35am | Comments
Bookmark Why Are Octopuses So Smart? - The Atlantic
A small shark spots its prey—a meaty, seemingly defenseless octopus. The shark ambushes, and then, in one of the most astonishing sequences in the series Blue Planet II, the octopus escapes.…

October 8 2020, 11:13pm | Comments
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May 16 2017, 10:24am | Comments
Bookmark Bacteria 'R' Us
A few scientists noticed in the late 1960s that the marine bacteria Vibrio fischeri appeared to coordinate among themselves the production of chemicals that produced bioluminescence, waiting until a certain number…

October 21 2010, 10:00am | Comments
Bookmark A world without mosquitoes
So what would happen if there were none? Would anyone or anything miss them? Nature put this question to scientists who explore aspects of mosquito biology and ecology, and unearthed some…

July 27 2010, 8:17am | Comments
Bookmark Evolution and Creativity: Why Humans Triumphed
Human evolution presents a puzzle. Nothing seems to explain the sudden takeoff of the last 45,000 years—the conversion of just another rare predatory ape into a planet dominator with rapidly progressing…

June 1 2010, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark Spiders Devour Ants Front-End First
A spider that only eats ants is choosy about which body parts of its prey it devours based on their nutritional value. These new findings are the first to demonstrate that…

May 14 2010, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark Stunning Images of Herds from Above [PICS]
Though the term “herd behaviour” today is most often used when talking about financial markets, it originally described individuals in a group acting together without direction – for example an animal…

October 4 2009, 5:16pm | Comments
Bookmark The Evolutionary Enigma of Dream Content
Boston University neuroscientist Patrick McNamara has an interesting evolutionary theory of dreaming. McNamara’s theory draws from the well-known “handicapping principle” in evolutionary biology, where some organisms have been observed to display…

June 27 2009, 4:32am | Comments

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