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Animals playing dead is a real, scientifically described behavior known as thanatosis. This behavior can be essential for an animal’s survival when faced with a threat. This YouTube Short by ...
For more than a century, most evidence suggested that sponges, immobile filter-feeders that lack muscles, neurons and other ...
Marine animals, such as the extremely simple flatworm Trichoplax, are ideal model organisms for studying the early ...
Scientists studying the behavior of wild octopuses off the coast of Australia have made a strange discovery, with the creatures caught hurling silt, algae and even shells at one another. The finding ...
The top row shows variation in a zooplankton, Daphnia: the morph on the right is produced in the presence of a predator cue. The second row shows an example of dimorphic variation in horn length, ...
Digging up preserved specimens of Earth’s earliest life gives us a portal to the past — and now, that portal is offering us a voyeuristic peek at the oldest example of animal behavior we yet know of: ...