Look into a dog’s eyes and your brains can synchronize.
Science Alert explains the allure of the puppy-dog eyes with Chinese research demonstrating brainwaves suddenly syncing up between humans and dogs when they look into […]
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Cats will play fetch too.
The Conversation extends the dog-owner’s friendly game of fetch to feline friends who, researchers have found, can also enjoy bringing back toys that are thrown […]
Science Art: Herring Gull 4, by Robert Pos, 2008.
Here’s Larus argentatus, one of those wild animals that barely seems wild because it interacts with people so much. Simple line art captures a wild […]
Science Art: Collection of various birds from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 1820.
This is an educational poster, retouched by Wikimedia Commons user Rawpixel, of birds. It’s taken from Oliver Goldsmith’s book A History of the Earth and […]
A brand new tiny deer.
Awww. Sci News has reported on the historic discovery of a new deer species in Peru. The short-legged dwarf deer Pudella carlae is the first […]
Science Art: Whelp of the Northern Panther (Felix concolor), 1842.
That is a kitten. A panther kitten. Offspring of the catamount. Doesn’t look all that happy to have its picture engraved. On a digital device, […]
Baby dragons commute out of their caves.
The New York Times reports on olms — blind, pale, cave-dwelling salamanders once believed to be baby dragons — regularly traveling up to the surface […]
Milking the amphibian
NPR has a story about a caecilian. Not Sicilian, but South American, these are to salamanders what glass snakes are to lizards: a legless version […]
Science Art: Lynxes, by Louis Sargent, 1909
Two cats at dusk, growling in the snow. The nights have been long, but they’re growing shorter. May you survive your own lonely wilderness and […]
Science Art: Diagram illustrating the inherent conspicuousness of an eye-spot…, Cott, 1942.
An illustration showing how noticeable an eye actually is, from the text The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation, which looks at eyes, eyes everywhere, […]
SONG: Secret Dragons
SONG: “Secret Dragons” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: The Guardian 2 March 2023, “‘Like a little dragon’: new gecko species discovered on rugged Queensland island,” […]
Dragon discovered: A new gecko species found on Australian island
The Guardian reveals Phyllurus fimbriatus, a charismatic, 15cm (6-inch) reptile otherwise known as the the Scawfell Island leaf-tailed gecko, which has never before been scientifically […]
Science Art: Just Missed Him, by G.E. Lodge, 1898.
I wasn’t sure if this really counted as a scientific illustration, despite finding it in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, since most of the other plates […]
Female snakes have two clitorises.
The Guardian reveals research into the private lives of lady snakes, which has found that those things human scientists thought might be scent glands or […]
Turtles have voices that we hadn’t heard till now.
Defector (not just a sports blog) reports on a zoological discovery – that turtles have been vocalizing all along, but we’ve only realized they had […]