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In Defense of the Rat

Suddenly, Franks realized she had another meeting to get to, and here she was in a room full of free-ranging rats. She couldn’t just...

How Octopuses Use Their Suction Cups to Taste Through Touch

Nicholas Bellono, a professor of molecular and cell biology at Harvard University, was worried about his first octopus. “It’s not trivial to have an...

What to Wear When You’re Battling Giant, Venomous Hornets

But exactly who makes the suit and what they might think about its use for Asian giant hornet wrangling is something of a mystery....

Pandemic Quiet Is Helping Humans Eavesdrop on Rare Dolphins

This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The calm waters of Gippsland Lakes near Melbourne, Australia,...

How the Venus Flytrap ‘Remembers’ When It Captures Prey

Scientists are continuing to tease out the mechanisms by which the Venus flytrap can tell when it has captured a tasty insect as prey...

Wild Predators Are Relying More on Our Food—and Pets

Some of North America’s big predators—wolves, mountain lions, bobcats, and the like— are now getting nearly half their food from people. It’s a big...

What the Science of Animal Networks Reveals About Protests

The living world turns chaos into order by making large structures out of small units. The sublime coordination of a flock of birds or...

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