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Researchers Have Observed That Bees Go Silent During a Total Solar Eclipse, Which Is Really Not Weird As Bees Usually Cease Activities At Night. But What Was Really Strange Was The Speed At Which The Bees Went Quiet During The Totality Of The Eclipse. I Guess Bees Also Observe “Lights Out.”

Bees went silent during the 2017…

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The World’s Largest Animal To Have Ever Lived On Land Has Been Discovered In South Africa. And No, It Is Not The Plant-Eating Sauropods , But A New Species Of Dinosaur Named A Giant Thunderclap At Dawn. The Dinosaur Is Said To Have Lived About 200 Million Years Ago. They Keep Finding Them!!

New 26,000 pound species of dinosaur…

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Another Rare Freak Of Nature: A Two-Headed American Copperhead Snake Was Discovered In A Garden In Virginia, USA. Talk About Twice The Danger For The Price Of One. The Snake Is Also Said To Pose A Danger To Itself Because The Heads Could Attack Each Other.

Hopefully, The 75-Year-Old Fight Is Over After Scientists Classified The Contentious Dickinsonia And Other Bizarre Fossils Of The Ediacaran Biota Into The Animal Kingdom. The Ediacaran Biota Is Said To Have Appeared Around 600 MYA, And Flourished For Tens Of Millions Of Years, Making Them The Oldest Animal Fossil On The Planet. Cool!

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Finally, Dogs And Cats Get To Have Apartments Soley Built Because Of Them. Yes, One Must Be A Dog Owner To Be Able To Rent These Apartments In A Municipality, Frederikssund, In Northern Zealand, Denmark. This Initiative Was Started After Many Apartments Had Refused To Rent To Dogs And Cats Owners. Okay!!

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The Most Populated State In The USA, California, Strikes Again By Becoming The First State In The USA To Ban Cosmetics That Have Been Tested On Animals. The State Joins 40 Other Countries In The World, Like India, Israel, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan To Banned Or Limit The Use Of Cosmetics Tested On Animals.

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Goats May Have Joined Animals Like Dogs And Horses In Recognizing Human Emotion. A New Research Has Shown That Goats May Associate More With People Who Expressed Happy Emotions. The 20 Goats, Used In The study, Were Found To Sense Positive Emotions, Possibly, By Using The Left Hemisphere Of Their Brain. Hmm!

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Here Is Something That You Don’t See Or Hear of Every day: Not Your Typical Animal Being Put To Work. At A French Park, Puy du Fou park, in France, Crows, Specifically The Rook, Are Being Trained To Pick Up Little Bits Of Trash, Like Cigarette Butts, In Exchange For Nuggets Of Food. Cool!

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Yep, There Are Apps That Can Identify Plants And Animals In The Wild From A Picture; Another Claims To Be Able To Identify Recipes Of A Dish From A Picture, And Shazam, Which Can Identify Any Song. And Now, There Is A New App, Doggzam, Which Can Identify Dog Breeds From A Picture. Pretty Cool!

Spiders Were Initially Reported To Study Wind Patterns And Direction Before Ballooning. But Another Recent Study, By Scientists, Now Indicates That Spiders Need To Sense The Earth’s Electric Field To Enable Them Take Off, Via Negative Electric Silk Charge, And Travel, Even In Light Winds, For Long Distances Up To 1,000 Miles Out To Sea.

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Researchers Are Of The Opinion That They Could Learn To Design New Flying Devices By Studying How Spiders Float/Fly In The Wind In A Process Called Ballooning. The Spiders, Based On A Recent Study, Are Said To Study Wind Patterns And Directions Before Launching Themselves, Using Their Nanoscale Silk Threads, Into The Wind.

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Another Victim Of The 300 Marine Animals, Comprising Dolphin, Sea Turtles, And Whales, That Die Annually From Plastic Pollution In Waters Of Thailand. Recently, 17 Pounds Of Plastics Including More Than 80 Plastic Bags Were Found In A Dead Whale. Something Very Urgent May Soon Be Done When Humans Start Dying From The Plastic Pollution.

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2 Tiny Marsupials Species, The Silver-headed And The Black-tailed Dusky Antechinus, Can Be Added To The List Of Wierd Animals That Mate To The Death. But That Is Not What Is Really Threatening Their Existence. The Problem Is That They Are Going Into Extinction Because Of Human Induced Climate Change And Habitat Encroachment.

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The World Oldest Spider, To The Best Of Known Records, A Trapdoor Spider Has Died At The Age Of 43. It Is Said To Have Outlived The Previous Holder, A 28-Year-Old Tarantula From Mexico By About 15 Years. The Trapdoor Spider Is Said To Live This Long Because Of Its Sedentary Lifestyle, Low Metabolism And Environment.

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A Previous Study Has Already Indicated That Early Humans Were Responsible For The Disappearance Of Large Mammal Population. The Discovered, First Of A Kind, Fossilized Footprints of Early Humans Inside Those Of A Giant Sloth, About 11,700 YA, In New Mexico, May Prove That Early Humans Were Indeed Stalking And Killing These Large Mammals.

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Scientists Have Discovered The Colobopsis Explodens Ant In The Borneo Jungle. The Ants Can Explode, Releasing Toxic Yellowish Goo To Kill Their Foes. But The Act Of Exploding Also Kills The Ant In The Process. Most Of The Ants That Sacrifice Themselves To Defend Their Colony Are Mostly The Minor Workers And All Sterile Females.

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Population Of Early Humans, Compared To Today’s Population, Were Insignificant During Their Expansion In The Late Quartenary, But We Are Told That They Are To Blame For The Decline In Huge Mammal Population. Imagine What Can Happen With About A 7 Billion Human Population? Hopefully, Remaining Endangered Animals Are Not Sent To Extinction.

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A Vital Information, When Better Understood, Could Help Restore Sea Turtles, Some Birds, And Fishes To Where They Were Born. Scientists Have Observed That The Sea Turtles Learned Their Habitat’s Unique Magnetic Signature, And Use The Earth’s Magnetic Field To Find Their Way Back To Nest On Beaches 40-50 Miles Of Where They Were Born.

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The Worlds Largest Footprint (~170 Myr Old) Belonging To The Largest Animal To Walk The Planet, The Sauropods, Has Been unearthed In A Lagoon In Scotland. The Location Of The Footprint In Association With Footprints From Other Flesh Eating Dinosaurs Negates The Theory That These Plant-Eaters Went Into shallow Waters To Avoid Predators.

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First, It Was An Asteroid Impact, Then It was Due To An Asteroid Impact Location, And Now It Was Because Dinosaurs Were So Dumb That They Could Not Identify And Avoid Dangerous Food That Could Kill Them. The Toxic Food Is Said To Have Wane The Dinosaur Population Before The Asteroid Finished Them Off. Wow!

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