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For The First Time, The Fossil Of A Flying Reptile, An Unusual Group Of Pterodactyls Known As Tapejarids, Which Existed In China And Brazil, Has Been Found On The Largest Island In England, Isle Of Wight. The Fossil, Named Wightia Declivirostris, Adds To Diversity Of Prehistoric Reptiles And Dinosaurs Found On The Island.

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An Octopus Has Been Spotted At The Depth Of ~7,000m In The Java Trench Of The Indian Ocean, Making It The World’s Deepest Octopus. The Octopus, A “Dumbo” Species, Is Said To Have Surpassed Previous Sighting At 5,145m. This Discovery Indicates That Octopus Can Find Potentially Suitable Habitat Across At Least 99% Of The Global Seafloor.

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Researchers Have Stumbled Upon A Find That Bumble Bees Make Holes In Leaves Of Plant To Force Than To Flower Early. And That The Hungrier The Bees Are The More Holes They Make. This Process Is Said To, For Example, Reduce Flowering Time From An Average Of 33 Days To 17 Days. Understanding This Process Would Be Beneficial To Horticulturist.

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Some Bees, Like The European Honeybees, Fend Off Hornets By Stinging Them. While Other Bees, Like The Japanese Honeybees Swarm The Hornet, Working Together, By Vibration, To Generate Heat Of About 115 Degrees, Which Is Hot Enough To Cook The Hornet. Asian Giant Hornet Carries A Rigid Exoskeleton That Makes Bee Stings Ineffective. Cool!

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The Fossil Of One Of The Last Flesh-Eating Dinosaurs, A Type Of Megaraptor, May Have Been Discovered By Paleontologist In Argentina. The 70 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Is Said To Be 10 Meters In Length. And The Most Prominent Thing About This Dinosaur Is That The Thumb Ends In A Claw, Which Is Approximately 40 Centimeters In Length.

A 4-Year-Old Llama Named Winter, In Belgium, May Be Very Important In The Fight Against Coronavirus. This Was Stated After It Was Discovered That The Antibodies From Winter, Which Previously Neutralized ASARS And MERS, Are Now The First To Kill Coronavirus In Lab Experiments. Llamas, As Test Animals., Have Antibodies Similar To Humans.

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The Fossil Of The Oldest Salamander, Triassurus Sixtelae, May Have Been Discovered In Kyrgyzstan. The Fossil, About 250 Myrs Old, Triassic, Is Also Said To Be The Most Primitive Amphibian Thought To Have Crawled Out Of A Muddy Freshwater Lake Millions Of Years Ago. This Discovery May Shed Some Light On The Mysterious Origin Of Amphibians.

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Asian Giant Hornets (AGH) Have Been Spotted, Specifically In Washington State, For The First Time In The US. AGH, At 2 Inches Long, Are Said To Be The World’s Biggest Hornets, And Could Kill Humans If Stung Multiple Times, Hence The Nickname “Murder Hornets.” They Are Said To Be Most Destructive In Late Summer And Early Fall.

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The Recently Discovered Fossilized Tail Of The First River Dinosaur, Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus (SA), In Southern Morocco, Indicates That Dinosaurs Were Not Only Land And Air Animals, But Were Also Powerful Swimmers That Adapted Quite Well In Water. The Study Notes That SA Prowled The Rivers That Flowed Through The Sahara Desert 100 Myrs Ago. Fascinating!

A Dog, Named Winston, In North Carolina, Has Tested Positive For The Coronavirus. And To The Best Of Knowledge, This Could Be The First Of Such Case For A Dog In The U.S. Well, I Guess This Throws Out The Notion That Dogs Are Immune To Coronavirus, And It May Also Defeat The Plan To Use Dogs To Detect The Virus.

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There Are Dogs Specially Trained To Identify Diseases Like Cancer, Malaria And Parkinson’s By Their Scents. And In This Regard, A Charity, In Partnership With Other Health Establishments In The UK, Wants To Train Dogs To Catch Coronavirus Odour So That The Virus Can Be Detected At Busy Areas Like Airports. Cool!

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Wow, A Female Zebra And A Male Donkey Mated, In Kenya, To Give Birth To A Hybrid, Which Looks Like A Zebra And A Donkey. The Zebra-Donkey Hybrid Is Been Called A Zonkey. Both The Mother And Zonkey Are Thriving Okay In Their New Habitat At The Chyulu Hills National Park in Kenya.

Ying Ying And Le Le, Both 14-Year-Old Pandas, Living Together In A Hong Kong Zoo For 13 Years, Have Finally Successfully Mated On 4/6/2020, Probably Thanks To The Quietness Due To COVID-19. However, Whether In Captivity Or In The Wild, Giant Pandas Rarely Show The Desire Or Skill To Mate, Which Is Impeding Their Survival.

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Researchers May Have Discovered The Largest Siphonophore Apolemia, In The World, During An Expedition To The Ningaloo Canyons, Off Western Coast Of Australia. Siphonophore Are String-Like Creatures, Made Up Of Interconnected Clones, Each Clone Specialized To A Particular Task. The Outer Ring Diameter Of This Creature Is Estimated At 49 Ft.

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A Tiger At The Phoenix Zoo In New York Is Said To Have Contracted Coronavirus From One Of Its Keepers, Who Showed No Sign Of The Virus. This Discovery Could Imply That Cats Or Pets With Enzymes Similar To Humans May Also Catch The Virus. But Dogs, According To Researchers, Are Not Likely To Get Infected. Hmm!!

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By Comparing the Defensive Stinging Attributes Of Animals Like The Lionfish and Bees, And Based On Surveys Of The Demographics That Handle Snakes, Like Snake Keepers, Reptile Researchers And Ecologists, Researchers Are Indicating That Most Snakes Evolved Their Venoms For Offence And Not For Self Defense.

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Researchers May Have Discovered The Oldest (~555 Myrs Old) Fossil Of A Worm-Like Animal, Called Ikaria Wariootia, Which’s Probably The Oldest Ancestor To Almost Every Living Animal Today. The Animal, ~The Size Of A Rice Grain, Discovered In Australia, Is Said To Be The Earliest Bilaterian Animal (2 Symmetrical Sides With A Mouth And Anus).

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It’s Known That Woman Outlive Men Such That 9 Out Of 10 People Who Live To Be 110 Years Old Are Females. New Large Data Is Also Indicating That In Wild Mammals, Females Live Longer Than Males Of The Same Species By 18.6%. And It’s Due To A Combination Of Sex-Specific Traits And Local Environmental Factors.

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Vampire Bats, According To Researchers, Build Long Bonding Relationship To Survive, E.G, Starvation By Regurgitating Digested Blood Meal To Share With Another Vampire Bat, As If It Was An Offspring. This Is Because Finding Blood Meal Can Be Difficult. This Strategy Could Be Risky, For The Givers, If Their Gesture Is Not Reciprocated.

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Researchers May Have Discovered The Earliest Known Fowl Fossil, Ancestor To Modern-Day Chickens, Ducks And Other Poultry. The Bird, Named Asteriornis Maastrichtensis, Found On The Netherlands-Belgium Border, Existed ~67 Myrs ago, The Time Of The Dinosaurs. This Discovery May Help Fill In The Gap On Bird Evolution From Dinosaurs.

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