Posts Tagged ‘Animals’
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With no land to rest on and the seabed miles below, migrating elephant seals use slowly drifting dives to catch a few Zs in the ocean depths, a new study says. |
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Its skin pale and rubbery and its organs swollen with gas, an “alien” discovered in a Panama creek has now been identified by veterinarians as a common three-toed sloth. |
The antlered animals weren’t made for this—to stumble onto a boat in the middle of an autumn night and bump and sway on the water for six hours until they attain solid ground again and resume their overland migration to…
Why are some loons acting so, well, loony? Mercury. Long-term studies of common loons in the United States and Canada reveal that the toxic stuff is invading birds’ brains and bodies in dangerous concentrations. It’s disrupting behavior and physiology—and could…
Like many of you—OK, millions of you—I’m a fan of Nora the Piano-Playing Cat, star of YouTube videos. Gray and sleek, she strokes the keys with grace and restraint. She duets with her piano-playing mistress. She appears to be, as…
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