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Social Distancing During An Infection Is Not Unnatural, As Certain Animals Social Distance From Sick Members Of The Same Species To Prevent Infection. Some Of These Animals Are American Bullfrog Tadpole, Lobsters, And Garden Ants. This Discovery Could Imply That Social Distancing Works, Even As Nature’s Remedy For Disease Prevention.

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A Pet Cat Became The First Animal To Test Positive For COVID-19 In The Uk, Suspectedly From Its Owner. Experts Recommend Hand Wash Before/After Contact With Pets, Owners With Coronavirus Should Avoid Close Contact With Pets, And keep Pets Indoors To Avoid Virus Spread. However, There’re No Evidence Pets Can Transmit Coronavirus To Humans.

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Scientists Estimate A Timeline, From The Energy Use Model Of Polar Bears, Which Indicates That If Climate Change Isn’t Curbed Soonest, The Arctic Polar Bears Could Go Extinct By 2100. This’s Because Climate Change Will Reduce Sea Ice, Making It Difficult For Polar Bears To Find Food, Like Seals, For Themselves And Their Cubs.

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Scientists, For The First Time, Successfully But Unintentionally Created “The Sturddlefish” From 2 Living But Endangered Fossil Fishes, American Paddlefish And The Russian Sturgeon, That Have Not Evolved Over A Long Time. More Sturddlefish Offsprings Won’t Be Seen In The Wild As They May Be Infertile Due To The Effect Of Crossbreeding.

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Researchers, In The Dark Depths Of The Ocean, Have Discovered, To The Best Of Known Knowledge, 16 Species Of The Blackest Fish In The Ocean–The So-Called “Ultra-Black Fish.” The Fish, Which Absorb More Than 99.5% Of Light To Stay Dark, Are Said To Have Evolved Their Dark Color As A Camouflage For Hiding From Predators. Hmm!

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Researchers, After ~30 Years, Have Finally Discovered The Gene, In Chromosome 11, Which Allows The Cape Honey Bees Of S. Africa To Give Birth, Asexually, To Only Females. But This Process Often Leads To Conflict As Worker Bees Fight To Be The Next Queen Mother. This Find Has Important Implications For Sectors Like Agriculture And Biotech.

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Scientists Spotted The Highest Dwelling Mammal In The World, A Mouse, At Height Of ~22,000 Ft. The Mouse Was Captured At The Top Of The Andes Llullaillaco Volcano On The Border Of Chile And Argentina. This Discovery Can Help Understand How Mammals Can Adapt To Harsh Environments. The World’s Deepest Dwelling Animal Has Also Been Spotted.

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The Videos Set Up By Wildlife Conservation Society Captured The World’s Rarest Gorillas With Several Babies In The Dense Mbe Mountains In Cross River State, Nigeria. About 300 Of These Gorillas Are Found In An Isolated Region Along The Nigeria/Cameroon Border. The Latest Sighting Indicates That The Gorillas Are Well Protected And Reproducing.

A Modern Day Marine Fish, The Smooth Handfish, Has For The First Time Gone Extinct, After Not Been Seen For Almost After Two Centuries. Handfish Are Said Not To Be Abundant, But They Are Diverse, With 14 Species Occupying Different Ecosystems. The Remaining Species Are Threatened By Sediment Run-Off In Australia And Climate Change.

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Caecilians, Like Most Amphibians, Have Been Thought To Produce Only Poisons. But This Discovery Marks The First Time Of Finding Venom Glands In The Mouth Of An Amphibian. Caecilians Are Said To Look Like A Hybrid Between A Worm and A Snake But Predate Snakes By About A 100 Myrs, Making Them One Of The Oldest Venomous Biters On Earth.

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Snakes Usually Undulate For Propulsion, But Flying Snakes Like Chrysopelea Paradisi, The Paradise Tree Snake, Which Normally Live In The Trees Of S And SE Asia, According To A New Study, Undulate For Flight Stability. And How Far They Fly Depends On Their Launch Height. This Knowledge May Be Important For Developing Aerial Snake-Like Robots.

Scientists May Have Observed, For The First Time In Dolphins, A Behaviour That Is Only Sometimes Observed In Non-Human Animals Like primates. And That Is The Ability Of Dolphins To Learn From Their Peers. In This Case, To Trap Their Preys In Empty Shells (Shelling)— A Skill That Is Not Learned From Their Parents Or Elders. Smart!

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A New Study, Which Took Place During The Summer And Over A-Three-Year Period, Is Indicating That Hummingbirds Can See Diverse Colors That Are Invisible To Human Eyes. And This Is Because Of Their Four-Color Cone Vision (Tetrachromatic). And These Colors Influence Their Decisions Regarding Food, Evading Predators, Or Choosing A Mate. Cool!

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Researchers Have Discovered, In Antarctica, A Fossilized Dinosaur Soft-Shelled Egg That They Call “The Thing.” The Thing Is The Largest Soft-Shelled Egg, And The Second Biggest Animal Egg (After Eggs From The Extinct Elephant Bird) Ever Discovered. Researchers Are Of The Opinion That A Giant Marine Reptile, The Mosasaur, Laid The Egg.

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Though No Physical Remains Were Found, Which Could Make This Interpretation Contentious, Scientists Are Stating That The Nearly Hundred 18-24cm-Long Footprints Found, Well Preserved, In The Lower Cretaceous Jinju Formation of South Korea Belonged To An Ancient Crocodile, Called Batrachopus Grandis, Which Ran On Two Feet Like An Ostrich.

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Researchers Have Discovered That The Pinkest Flamingos, Both Male And Female, Are More Aggressive Than Their Paler Rivals And Tend To Push Them Around When Fighting Over Food. And The Birds Tend To Fight More When Food Is Available In A More Confined Area Such As A Bowl. Their Pink Color Comes From Carotenoids In Their Food.

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A New Study Is Indicating That Sea Snakes Have Been Relatively Rapidly Adapting Their Vision, Over Less Than 15 Million Years, Which Is Truly Astonishing When Compared To How Other Species Adapt. Sea Snakes Evolve Their Vision So That They Can Adapt To Changing Underwater Light Conditions And Still See Their Prey Deep Underwater.

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Researchers, Based On The Best-Preserved Dinosaur Stomach Ever Found To Date, Were Able To Determine The Dinosaur’s Actual Preserved Stomach Contents, Which Is Rare. The Dinosaur, A Nodosaur, Found In 2011, In Alberta, Canada, Became Mummified ~110 Myrs Ago After Enjoying One Last Meal Of Plants With Favoritism For Ferns.

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The First Dog To Test Positive For The Coronavirus In The USA Is A Pet German Shepherd In New York. This Contradicts The Earlier Report That A North Carolina Pug Was The First To Contract The Virus after Officials From The United States Department Of Agriculture Later Confirmed That They Were Unable To Verify Infection In Winston The Pug.

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Researchers May Have Discovered, In A Sedimentary Rock Called The Wulongqing Formation In Yunnan, China, The Oldest Parasite Stuck To Its Host Some 510 Million Years Ago. The Tube-like Shaped Parasites, Called Neobolus Wulongqingensis, Are Said To Have Exhibited kleptoparasitism, Where They Steal Food From The Host Brachiopods, A Filter Feeder.