Skulls of the extinct kangaroo just described.Picture: N. Warburton, Murdoch University A new study describes a “semi-arboreal kangaroo” who lived 40,000 years ago in Australia. Apparently even jumping can get boring. According …
Read More »Pigs Playing Video Games Expand Our Concepts of Animal Intelligence
A Yorkshire pig operating a joystick to move a point on the screen.Photo: Eston Martz / Pennsylvania State University The four pigs came to win. If they played right, they got delicious …
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The first complete map of a platypus genome has been released recently, and it is in every way strange as you see a creature with 10 sex chromosomes, a pair of venomous …
Read More »The Danish government ordered the death of one million minks due to the outbreak of COVID-19
The Danish government has ordered mink farms to raise more than 1 million animals due to an outbreak of coronovirus among the species, prized for its fur. A State Department report from …
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