Only Monkeys With Opposable Thumbs Fell for This Classic Magic Trick
A team of researchers performed magic tricks for several species of monkey, and they found that the animals’ gullibility may ...
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Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers
At 4 am one morning in October of last year, animal rights activist Raven Deerbrook sat on a bed in ...
The Many Metaphors of Metamorphosis
As far as metaphors for change go, this is a potent one. Yet when we think about the future and ...
The Mystery of Nevada’s Ancient Reptilian Boneyard
Berlin, Nevada, is a treasure chest for paleontologists. Just down the road from now-abandoned gold and silver mines, a rockbound ...
How Scientists Are Cleaning Up Rivers Using Grasses and Oysters
One hundred miles north of Philadelphia, the Billion Oyster Project has been restoring the bivalves in New York Harbor since ...
This De-Extinction Company Wants to Resurrect the Thylacine
Of all the species that humanity has wiped off the face of the earth, the thylacine is possibly the most ...