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Animals are vulnerable during molting and frequently seek safe places to hide for its duration. For some scientists, this raises the question of whether arthropods experience anxiety during molting.

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Wind turbines are a valuable source of renewable energy, but they’re eco-unfriendly in one particular way: the giant spinning blades frequently kill birds and bats.

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In the wild, naked mole rats dig a complex tunnel system, complete with chambers for different purposes, covering several hundred meters. It’s hard work, but they accomplish it together. So why do naked mole rats sometimes interfere with the work of their colony mates via a. . . Read More

Humans use a variety of cues to gauge an object’s weight without directly handling it, including how easily it can be moved. For instance, if we see one object blowing down the street in the wind while another object remains stationary, we can infer. . . Read More

Photo: AWeith via Wikimedia Commons . Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Life at the Earth’s poles is brutally cold. Yet animals still make their homes. . . Read More