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Scientists filmed a sperm whale giving birth and watched females from another family line help bring the calf into the world — then repeatedly lift the newborn to the surface and support it there while it was still too weak and uncoordinated to swim properly on its own
1+ week, 3+ day ago (278+ words) What scientists witnessed off Dominica wasn't just a whale birth—it was an act of interspecies cooperation that rewrites what we thought we knew about cetacean families and care....
Footage from the Red Sea shows octopuses hunting side by side with fish — and when a fish partner hangs back instead of flushing prey out on cue, the octopus has been filmed punching it with an extended arm, sometimes for no food reward at all
2+ week, 5+ day ago (18+ words) Octopuses hunting with fish partners will punish them for slacking—and sometimes just for the sake of it....
In 2017, a 14-year-old Virginia girl dug a backyard pond for a school project; nine years later the same hole holds a working wildlife ecosystem she still tends
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (239+ words) What begins as a teenage science project can become a lifelong commitment—if you're patient enough to let nature do the work....
For a few months each spring, underwater microphones off New York fill with the calls of endangered sei whales — then, as the ocean warms, the voices almost disappear, revealing a migration that happens largely beyond human sight
1+ week, 6+ day ago (98+ words) Ocean microphones are catching glimpses of a species that remains nearly invisible to science, revealing how climate shapes the hidden movements of endangered whales....
When scientists disrupted dopamine in hungry rats, the animals still showed pleasure when sweet food was placed in their mouths — they just lost the drive to work for it, suggesting dopamine governs wanting more than enjoyment
3+ week, 1+ day ago (358+ words) The brain's reward chemical may not deliver pleasure at all—it's the engine that makes us crave, seek and strive. Published August 23, 2026 · How we edit Strip a rat of almost all its dopamine and it will still pull a happy…...
Researchers in Japan documented carrion crows placing walnuts in front of cars stopped at traffic lights, then letting the vehicles crack the shells before retrieving the food — behaviour recorded repeatedly over 21 months.
3+ week, 1+ day ago (488+ words) A road junction in Sendai, Japan, in the early 1990s. The light turns red, a line of cars stops, and a crow drops onto the road just ahead of a front tire. It...
Berlin's nightingales turn up their volume as traffic noise rises: researchers found males in noisier territories sang louder, with rush-hour birds even singing louder on weekday mornings than on quieter weekend mornings
2+ week, 5+ day ago (543+ words) Urban noise is reshaping how animals communicate, with Berlin's nightingales demonstrating that evolution doesn't wait for generations—it happens in real time. Published August 26, 2026 · How we edit Walk through a European city in spring and you may hear it before…...
A drone caught Maserati the dolphin lifting a football-sized shell to trap a fish, then her calf picking it up and trying the same
3+ week, 3+ day ago (347+ words) A drone was hovering over calm water off Hervey Bay, on Australia's east coast. An adult dolphin rises with a large empty shell balanced on her snout, a fish...
Since 2021, Guam power crews have collected electrocuted brown tree snakes for USGS biologists after outages, the invader's long body bridging two live wires at once and turning a climbing animal into the missing piece of an electrical circuit
2+ week, 2+ day ago (434+ words) An invasive snake species is literally short-circuiting Guam's entire electrical system, and scientists are turning dead animals into a detailed intelligence operation....
A sheep separated from a flock member for over two years will still recognise that face — and researchers measuring brain activity found the neural circuits held a selective encoding of the individual
3+ week, 3+ day ago (687+ words) The ovine brain treats each flock member as a distinct individual, preserving those memories in specialized neural circuits that outlast years of separation. By Life Signs · Edited by Mal James Published August 20, 2026 · How we edit A single sheep can remember…...