Considering how reckless it is to sleep near the edge of a subway platform, this passenger was fortunate.
Animals
Animals, Science/Nature
Cricket Ballet
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Animals, Nature
Why Don’t Sleeping Bats Fall Down?
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Animals, Nature
First-Ever Video of the Rare Omura’s Whale in the Wild
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There are, even in the twenty-first century, new discoveries and observations to be made – Dr. Salvatore Cerchio of the New England Aquarium and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and an international team of whale biologists have just released images and detailed descriptions on the first scientific observations in the wild ever of Omura’s whales,…
Animals, Good Ideas, Technology
Kangaroo-Avoidance Technology
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Only a matter of time — Stateside, as large mammals go, deer are probably the single biggest threat to cars traveling the highways. Now, imagine a smaller, “very unpredictable” deer that hops on two legs: that’s the hell of driving in Australia, where some 20,000 kangaroo collisions are said to happen annually…. There’s no word…
Animals
Seal Gets On Board
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Animals
NYC Park Goes to the Dogs for Halloween Parade
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Animals, Nature
The Halloween Crab
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Lauren Goode of the Verge writes about an encounter in Costa Rica with a crustacean called the Halloween Crab: Only later, once I was able to connect to WiFi, did I learn that we had just had our first encounter with Gecarcinus quadratus de Saussure, otherwise known as the Halloween crab. And only later, in…