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How You Understand What Your Pet Is Saying 0
- Earth & Environment
- March 25, 2014
Mechanisms behind cross- species emotions recognition revealed. Once I was watching a cartoon where a cute little cat was in danger and was desperately crying for help. Suddenly, my cat ran to the TV and started to look for the poor cat in need of help. The same happens when we humans hear a baby crying.
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Collective Memory: Scientific Aproach To Telepathy?10
- Earth & Environment
- November 18, 2013
Do stories about connected minds have anything to do with science? Why do humans often make independent but similar discoveries at about the same time? What makes us repetitively stumble upon that new word or phenomenon that we just learned about the other day? And how do mice know all about our poison and traps? Is
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Picky Females Keep Species from Interbreeding 0
- Earth & Environment
- April 2, 2012
It remains unclear how similar species sharing a small habitat can co-exist in the long term. The theory goes that the most capable species would survive while the others would disappear, but this is not always the rule even in small areas, such as lakes. The reason, according to recent research published in Nature, lies
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Pic of the Day: Meet the Shieldcroc, Crocodiles’ Earliest Ancestor 0
- Photography
- February 2, 2012
Researchers from Marshall University, US, have reported a new kind of giant crocodilyform who lived 95 million years ago. Named Aegisuchus witmeri, scientists have nicknamed it “shieldcroc” for the shield-like skin on its head, never seen before in these species. “We believe Shieldcroc may have used its long face as a fish trap,” says Nick
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