Animal

Another Zombie Animal. But This Time, This Zombie-Like Hognose Snake, Discovered In North Carolina, Tries To Scare The Threat Away By Behaving Like A Cobra Snake. But If The Threat Still Persist, It Will Pretend To Be Dead By Lying On Its Back With Its Mouth Open And Tongue Sticking Out. Talk About Playing Possum. Sorry, I Mean Snake.

An 8-Year-Old Green Anaconda, With No Male Contact, But Via A Very Rare Process Of Nonsexual Birth Or Parthenogenesis, Gave Birth To Two Anaconda Snakes. This Happened At The Boston Aquarium. This’s The Second Known Case Of Parthenogenesis In Green Anaconda, But Has Been Documented In Vertebrates Like Lizards, Sharks, And Birds.

A Rare 3 Months Old Albino African Black-Foot Penguin Has Been Debuted In A Polish Zoo. The Penguin, According To The Keepers, Is Said To Be The Only Kind In The World. Black-Foot Penguins, An Endangered Species Since 2010, Are Also Known As Jackass Penguins Because Of Their Braying Noise.

This May Be A Ground Breaking Record For A Great White Shark. Fishermen, In Taiwan, Caught And Killed A Humongous, 15 Ft Long, Great White Shark With A Record-Breaking Number Of 14 Pups Growing Inside Of The Shark. Number Of Shark Pups, In Great Whites, Average Between 2 To 10, And They Grow By Feeding On Unfertilized Eggs.

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The Sex Of An Animal Has Been Known To Be Determined By The Environment, Genetics, And Pollution. Pollutants Like Synthetic Estrogens And Herbicide Like Atrazine May Induce Genetically Male Frogs To Become Female Frogs. But A New Study Is Indicating That Frogs Could Change Their Sex Naturally During The Larvae Or Tadpole Stage.

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Damn, The 5 Yr Old Pigeon, Named Armando, Has Been Sold For A Commanding Price Of $1.4 Million. Armando Is Said To Be The World’s Best Distance Racer Of All Time. Pigeon Racing Is Common In Places Like China. Armando Is At The Retirement Age For A Race Pigeon, But He Could Still Father Potential Champion Pigeons.

If A 2.6 Myr To ~12 Kyr Frozen Nematodes Can Be Revived, Than Why Not Mammoths!? Scientists May Be On The Brink Of A Major Breakthrough, To Revive Mammoths, When Cell Nuclei From A 25Kyr Frozen Mammoth Was Found To Register, In A Mouse Egg Cell, Biological Activity That Appears Just Before Cell Division Starts.

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The Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake, Hydrophis Platurus, Is The Only Reptile In The Order Squamata That Lives On The Open Sea, And The Snake Does Not Drink Sea Water. So, How Does It Quench Its Thirst? Well, According To Scientists, It Does So From The Lens Of Rainwater That Floats On The Sea Surface.

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Scientists May Have Accidentally Discovered An Unusual Property Of The Spider’s Web, Which Could Enable Its Use In Weather Sensors, Smart Textiles And the Creation Of Robotics Muscles. This Property, In Addition To Web’s Toughness And Resilience, Is The Web’s Ability To Supercontract /Shrink And Twist In Response To Humidity Changes.

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The World’s Largest Bee, To Known Records, Megachile Pluto, First Discovered In 1859, Was Presumed Extinct. The Bee Was Recently Filmed In The Wild, In Indonesia, And 2 Specimens Reportedly Sold, In Last 2 Years, On eBay. The Bee Grows To 1.5 Inches Long With A Wingspan Of 2.5 Inches And Has Large Mandibles Like A Stag Beetle.

Aha, The First Mammal, To The Best Of Known Records, An Australian Bramble Cay Melomys, A Brown Rat, Has Gone Extinct! The Rat, Which Inhabited A Small Coral Island On The Great Barrier Reef, Is Said To To Have Gone Extinct Due To Ocean Flooding Of Its Habitat, Associated With Sea-level Rise From Climate Change.

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A Bird, Cardinal, Has Been Observed To Be One-Sided Male And The Other Side, Female—A Condition called “Gynandromorph.” This Sexual Split, Though Not Yet Confirmed In The Bird, Has Been Reported In Reptiles, Butterflies, And Crustaceans. Scientists Are Curious As To How This Would Make Them Different From Conventional Cardinals.

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Some Animals, From Previous Studies, Can Solve Basic Math. And Now, Researchers Have Discovered That Bees, With Their Small Brains, Are Also Capable Of Rudimentary Math Of Addition And Subtraction. This Discovery Could Imply That Advanced Non-Human Animals May Be Capable Of Complex Math. This Result Could Also Help In AI Advancement.

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A Bird, The Madagascar Pochard, Believed To Have Been Extinct After Not Seen In 15 Years Was Rediscovered In 2016. 25 Of The Discovered Birds Are Said To Be The Rarest Birds In The World. Apparently, Conservationist Are Doing A Great Job Restoring The Species After 21 Of Them Were Recently Released At A Lake In North Madagascar.

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Talk About The Animal With The Fastest Snap Jaw On The Planet. I know, Names Like Trap-Jaw Ants And Mantis Shrimp May Come To Mind. But No, The New Kid On The Block, From Asia And Australia, Is The Mystrium Camillae, Otherwise Known As The Dracula Ant. The Ant Is Said To Snap Its Jaw At Speeds Of More Than 200 mph

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This Could Be, For Now, The Biggest Cow In Austrailia. The 7-Year-Old Holstein-Friesian Cow, Named Kicker, Is Said To Be 6 Ft 3 inches Tall. Most Holstein-Friesian Cows, For Comparison, Are 4 Ft 8 Inches. The Cow Will Live Out The Rest Of Its Life On The Pasture, Thanks To Its Uniqueness.

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One Of The Biggest Structures And Apparently The World\’s Most Extensive Bioengineering Effort By A Single Insect Species, To Safely Gain Access To Leaves From Forest Floor, Has Been Discovered In Northeastern Brazil. The Structure Are Termite Mounds, Said To Cover Area The Size Of Great Britain And About 4000 Years Old.

Cubic Structures Are Essential For Construction Purposes. And So Scientists Are Hopeful That By Studying How The Intestines In Wombats Make Cubic Excrement, They Could Discover Another Way To Make Cubic Structures, Aside From The Usual Moulding Or Cutting Of Materials Into Cubes.

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If You Think That Being An Animal Exempts You From Being Arrested When Drunk, Then Think Again. A Racoon, Intoxicated On Crab Apples, Was Taken Into Custody By The Police After Neighbours Suspected The Raccoon Of Having Rabbies. The Raccoon Was However Release, Afer Sobering Up, And Being A First Time Offender =)

A New Study Is Indicating That Plants May Have Evolved A Means To Mutually Benefit From Ants. The Ants Would Defend The Hollow Spike Shelters Provided By The Plants While, Unintentionally, Protecting The Plants. The Ants Would Also Protect Plants By Defending Their Food (E.g. Plant Nectar) From External Aggressors.

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