Tag: animals
To avoid humans, more wildlife now work the night shift
Kaitlyn Gaynor, University of California, Berkeley
For their first 100 million years on planet Earth, our mammal ancestors relied on the cover of darkness to...
The slippery slope of dehumanizing language
Allison Skinner, Northwestern University
Comparing people to animals seems to increasingly be a part of our political discourse.
When Roseanne Barr tweeted that former White House...
Touch forms the foundation of the powerful human-horse relationship
Keri Brandt Off, Fort Lewis College
Two recent films, “Lean on Pete” and “The Rider,” explore the transformative quality of human-horse relationships. Both films...
Meet the ocean creatures that use a mesh of mucus to...
Kelly Sutherland, University of Oregon
All animals must eat to survive. If you’ve heard the term “grazer” before, it may bring to mind familiar farm...
Super-black feathers can absorb virtually every photon of light that hits...
Dakota McCoy, Harvard University
What do birds and aerospace engineers have in common? Both have invented incredibly dark, “super-black” surfaces that absorb almost every last...
Even ugly animals can win hearts and dollars to save them...
Diogo Veríssimo, Johns Hopkins University and Bob Smith, University of Kent
The Earth is home to millions of species, but you wouldn’t know it from...
Using the placenta to understand how complex organs evolve
Considering how different they look from the outside, it might be surprising that all vertebrates – animals with a backbone – share...
Why it’s impossible to actually be a vegetarian
Andrew Smith, Drexel University
In case you’ve forgotten the section on the food web from high school biology, here’s a quick refresher.
Plants make up the...
EXPLORING NATURE
Geothermal energy has huge potential to generate clean power – including...
Moones Alamooti, University of North Dakota
As energy use rises and the planet warms, you might have dreamed of...
