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🐟 ICYMI: A bathtub-sized #ocean #sunfish visits floating #kelp where hungry halfmoon #fish eat away more than 40 kinds of parasites clinging to its skin. After this mutual cleaning session, the giant fish rests on its side near the surface to soak up warmth from the sun before making deep, chilly feeding dives.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/mola-mola-visit-a-halfmoon-fish-spa-for-parasite-removal

#bbc #biology #ecosystem #marine #nature #wildlife #molamola #nature #science #symbiosis #underwater #animals #sea #ecology #tksst #video

Guten Morgen, einen friedvollen Samstag! 😀 👋

Zum #Insektensamstag heute ein Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), der an den Blüten einer Efeupflanze Nektar saugt. Blühender Efeu ist eine wichtige Nektarquelle für die Edelfalter, da andere Blüten im Herbst oft schon verblüht sind.

#insekten #insectphotography #insects #butterfly #schmetterling #tiere #animals #fotografie #photography #Photographie #foto #animalphotography #biology #natur #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Robo-frog swims with liquid crystal muscles powered by light

https://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-frog-artificial-muscles/

Deep in the dark, this fish carries its own fishing rod. 🎣 The female anglerfish dangles a glowing lure — lit by symbiotic bacteria — to draw prey close to a mouthful of needle teeth. In the deep sea, the males are tiny and fuse to a female for life.

#science #ocean #biology #deepsea

Adventurous baby black bear wins 2026 Courageous Cub Award

https://www.popsci.com/environment/bear-courageous-cub-award-alaska/

Ghosts don’t scare German shepherds

https://www.popsci.com/science/ghosts-dont-scare-german-shepherds-gene/

🐈 NEW: Behavioral researchers at the University of #SãoPaulo placed favorite treats inside sealed plastic containers for 38 pet #cats.

When a person sat nearby, the cats produced 86 meows compared to just 20 when left alone, while looking back and forth between the human and the food. This indicates that cats treat vocalizations and eye contact as targeted requests for assistance rather than simple outbursts of frustration.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/science/domestic-science/your-cat-has-a-surprisingly-sophisticated-way-of-asking-for-help-and-it-uses-it-a-lot/

#animals #nature #behavior #science #biology #pets #research #psychology #communication #zoology #evolution #felines

Grad student finds New Mexico’s first Canada lynx in 25 years

https://www.popsci.com/environment/first-canada-lynx-new-mexico-25-years/

Leaves on a puddle, somewhere in Harvard Forest, 23 October 2009. Taken with a Nokia E71 mobile phone.

#Leaves #trees #nature #forests #ecology #biology #biodiversity #naturephotography #photography #seasons #fall #autumn #newengland
#Massachusetts #water #puddle #nokia
#cellphones #VintageTechnology #vintagetech

A Venus flytrap can count. 🪰 It only snaps shut when an insect touches two trigger hairs within about 20 seconds — one touch does nothing. The trap closes in a tenth of a second, then 'tastes' its prey before sealing up to digest it over a week or two.

#science #plants #nature #biology

Young sea turtles make an unexpected home in the Gulf of Oman

https://www.popsci.com/environment/young-sea-turtles-gulf-of-oman/

This tiny sea slug is a real-life dragon — and it steals weapons from its prey. 🐉

The blue dragon (Glaucus atlanticus) is just 3 cm long, floats upside-down on the ocean surface, and eats Portuguese man o' war — then stores their stinging cells in its finger-like cerata to sting anything that tries to eat it. Sometimes its sting hurts worse than the jellyfish it stole it from.

#science #biology #ocean #MarineBiology

An octopus has three hearts — and two of them stop beating every time it swims. 🐙 Two pump blood to the gills, one to the rest of the body. Swimming is so exhausting that the main heart pauses, which is why octopuses mostly crawl along the seafloor instead.

#science #ocean #biology #animals

Can Network Science Transform Health and Nutrition?
- ciquan
https://www.quantamagazine.org/can-network-science-transform-health-and-nutrition-20261112/
#Biology

Endangered, colorful garter snakes released into the wild for the first time

https://www.popsci.com/environment/garter-snakes-released-california/

Critically endangered tortoises slurp up pumpkin soup

https://www.popsci.com/environment/tortoises-eat-pumpkin-soup/

Thousands of starlings, one sky, no leader. 🐦 In a murmuration, each bird tracks just six or seven neighbours — and from that simple rule, the whole flock twists, folds and ripples like a single living thing. It's thought to confuse predators like falcons.

#science #birds #nature #biology

Feather star, a graceful marine invertebrate related to sea stars & sea urchins. Crinoids are the oldest living echinoderms, dating back over 500 million years. So abundant in ancient seas, their fossilized stem segments formed entire limestone layers called encrinites. #wildlife #biology #evolution #nature #ocean

World’s first ‘dark magic mushroom’ discovered in Florida

https://www.popsci.com/environment/dark-magic-mushroom-discovery-florida/

The Evolving Story of How Chemistry Became Biology
- ciquan
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolving-story-of-how-chemistry-became-biology-20261112/
#Biology

Bald eagles Shadow and Kaydee take on a ‘nestoration’ project

https://www.popsci.com/environment/bald-eagles-shadow-kaydee-fixing-nest/

You don't like this new bug spray? Stick it in your ear!

https://www.vice.com/en/article/scientists-discovered-a-surprising-natural-insect-repellent-and-its-pretty-disgusting/

#biotech #biotechnology #science #biology #microbiology

New EU project puts soil science at the heart of policymaking

An EU-funded research project has brought together 15 partners from 10 European countries to improve how soil science…
#Europe #EU #Agriculture #biology #EuropeanUnion #soilhealth
https://www.europesays.com/europe/180042/

DeepMind's AlphaGenome 2 predicts how DNA variants affect specific cell types rather than tissue averages. On its own benchmark, the model doubled causal-variant recall to 30%. No independent testing reported yet. https://www.implicator.ai/deepmind-alphagenome-2-cell-type-variants/ #AI #genomics #biology

A curious experiment found that fruit flies shielded from Earth’s magnetic field lived longer than flies under normal conditions. 🧲🪰 Scientists are now investigating why, and what it could reveal about the subtle ways magnetic fields interact with living organisms.

Read more: https://thedebrief.org/scientists-shielded-flies-from-earths-magnetic-field-and-their-lifespans-mysteriously-increased/

@goodnews

#GoodNews #Science #Biology #MagneticFields