Animals

Capuchin monkeys are abducting baby howlers. But why? - YouTube Watch On Wild capuchin monkeys have been kidnapping infant howler monkeys, putting them on their backs and taking them for a ride. The trend, which began with one male, spread to other members of the group, and has resulted in deaths of at least four…

QUICK FACTSName: Scaly-foot snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum)Where it lives: Hydrothermal vents on the seafloor of the Indian OceanWhat it eats: As an adult, it doesn't! All of the snail's nutrition is generated internally, by endosymbiotic bacteria — microbes that live in the snail's gut.The scaly-foot snail, or volcano snail, possesses something unique among gastropods: a coat…

Elephants are known for their intelligence, complex social behavior, memory and size, including their giant ears. The ears of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) can grow up to 6.6 feet (2 meters) long and 4 feet (1.2 m) wide, while Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) have slightly smaller and rounder ears.That’s about 17% of their body length,…

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Half a billion years ago, a feisty predator flapped around the primordial seas, hooking prey into its mouth while breathing through long gills on its butt.Researchers recently discovered this 506 million-year-old creature, called Mosura fentoni, in a cache of museum fossils in Canada. The fossils suggest that these early arthropods were more diverse than previously…

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring — when she noticed something very odd about what seemed to be a young member of the pod. "At first, we were like, 'Oh my god, this…

Orange cats have a unique genetic mutation that gives them their special coats — and this mutation also explains why so many of them are male, two new studies find.Many animals have orange hair, including some humans, but only in domestic cats are males more likely to be orange than females. Researchers have long known…

Reptiles as we know them today may have evolved about 30 million years earlier than we initially assumed, new footprints reveal.According to a study published Wednesday (May 14) in the journal Nature, fossilized tracks found in Australia may have been left by the clawed feet of a small reptile-like creature about 350 million years ago,…

Reptiles as we know them today may have evolved about 30 million years earlier than we initially assumed, new footprints reveal.According to a study published Wednesday (May 14) in the journal Nature, fossilized tracks found in Australia may have been left by the clawed feet of a small reptile-like creature about 350 million years ago,…

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