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The ancestor of modern ducks and geese may have waddled alongside the dinosaurs
The age of the dinosaurs may conjure images of large, fearsome reptiles in the minds of many – but those were far from the ...
Psychology Today1d
Coexisting With Wolves: Lessons From Force-Free Dog Training
Living harmoniously with animals can be facilitated by teaching humans to accept their wild neighbors by tapping into the ...
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The Surprising Evolutionary Reason Your Dog’s Hairs Stand on End
“A dog's hair will also stand up when very, very cold. When the hair stands up, an insulating layer of air gets trapped ...
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Grassland News
Jan. 29, 2025 — Researchers have identified priority areas for conserving the black-tailed prairie dog in the United States. Protecting these regions will also benefit North America's Central ...
Indian Defence Review3d
Chernobyl’s Dogs Are Evolving Faster than Any Species on Earth – Scientists Stunned by Their DNA Mutation
Something strange is happening to the dogs of Chernobyl—their DNA is changing at an unbelievable rate. Scientists have ...
Nonprofit asking public for help identifying man whose skull, femur were found by dog in Macclenny
The DNA Doe Project told First Coast News on Monday it has recently discovered that the unidentified man whose remains were found in 1995, was of Colombian descent.
After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica
With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...
Scientists May Have Found Traces of an Extinct Genetic Code That Came Before DNA
Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...
Pet of the week: Benny Burrito, a chihuahua with 10 different dog breeds in his family tree.
"Before he was a Burrito, Benny was found as a stray on the streets of Oklahoma and transported to a foster home," the official account shared about his life story. "With a heap o ...
The Washington Post15d
I didn’t expect to love a dog — until Sunny completed my blended family
The cage was not a crib but a crate. The 3-month-old in question was not our child but our dog. We do have children, six of them. When Bruce and I got married a decade ago, our children — three ...
The Boston Globe15d
Tamara Lanier writes about fighting Harvard to reclaim her ancestor’s narrative
“That is a moment that I will take with me to my grave,” says Tamara Lanier, describing the first time she saw the image of her ancestor, an enslaved man known by his descendants as Papa Rent ...