When the Earth warms up, animals get smaller. That’s what happened 56 million years ago during another time of global warming. Temperatures rose roughly 10 degrees Fahrenheit, and scientists examining the fossils of horses from that time are seeing that to cope with the heat, they began to shrink in size.
It’s well known by now that sharks have a lot more to fear from humans than the other way round. We’re killing them by the hundreds of millions every year to the point where they’re now close to extinction.
There’s more and more evidence that chimps have what scientists call a “theory of mind” – the ability to understand the minds of others. (It was once thought that only humans had this ability.)
Ayumu, who lives at Kyoto University in Japan, is back in the news for his ability to remember the location and order of a set of numbers in less time than it take you to blink – 30 milliseconds, to be precise.
But human children — and most higher animals — are “moral” in a scientific sense, because they need to cooperate with each other to reproduce and pass on their genes, he said.
While scientists have been leery of attributing specific droughts, heat waves and other weather events to climate change, you can now definitely draw the connection. The big Texas and Oklahoma droughts, for example, are indeed a direct result of climate change.
PETA is reporting that all three companies have been paying for tests on animals in order to satisfy the requirements of the Chinese government.
Graduate students Erica Tennenhouse, right, and Amber Walker-Bolton were pleading for the last two monkeys in research at the Univ. of Toronto be retired to a sanctuary.
You care about animals but still can’t quit eating meat? Help is at hand, according to a panel of scientists at the annual AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) meeting in Vancouver.
Rick Santorum defended his earlier remarks that President Obama’s policies – specifically about the enormous changes that are taking place to the planet and our climate – are not “based on the Bible” but rather in “some phony theology.”
At the world’s largest science conference, scientists and ethicists presented the case for recognizing dolphins and whales as non-human persons.
As the Grateful Dead would say, What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been. Or in our case, what a long, strange week it’s been.
Jon Stewart: “As a president, you want a guy who makes good decisions. Putting your dog on the roof of your car…is not a good idea. That’s it. End of story. I don’t care about anything else.”
Where’s the cuttlefish among all these pebbles? Yes, right there in the middle. But she didn’t look like this a moment ago; as she settled among the pebbles to hide from predators, she jut completely changed her appearance.
The total, so far, of 177 dolphins (125 of whom have died) is nearly five times what’s normal, and there’s no explanation.
Right now, the entire Pekingese breed is in crisis. It is so plagued by health issues and inbreeding that many people say the breed may not even survive.
Czech scientist Jarosalv Flegr is an unconventional yet meticulous scientist who has thought for years that parasites are messing with his mind and manipulating his personality.
Now enter a competing bill, sponsored by state Rep. Amy Paulin and backed by the ASPCA, that would that would, instead, allow New York State shelters to kill animals immediately if staff determine that the animals are in “psychological pain.”
Mr. Buddy Rose isn’t going to be fathering any pups. He’s never going to win any honors in the show ring, either. But when it comes to Best in Glow, he just shines.
Fast food giant McDonald’s and the Humane Society of the United States have issued a joint statement announcing the company’s intention to get out of the business of gestation crates for breeding sows in the United States.