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First Ever Photo of Two Male Humpback Whales Having Sex

Researchers have recently observed something never previously witnessed by humans. They observed two male humpback whales engaging in penetrative sex. This rare event took place near Maui, Hawaii in January 2022. A group of citizen scientists aboard a private boat...

Whale Song Mystery Solved by Scientists

Researchers have figured out how giant whales make their beautiful songs in the ocean. Humpback whales and other large baleen whales have a special voice box for singing underwater. This discovery, shared in the journal Nature, explains why our noisy...

New Crocodile Species Discovered — and Its Last Meal Was a Dinosaur

Scientists in Australia have recently discovered a new species of crocodile, whose last meal was a dinosaur. The new crocodile species dates back to the Cretaceous period when most of the commonly known dinosaurs were roaming the Earth. And its...

Army of 3,500 Monkeys Invade City Center in Thailand

A massive group of monkeys, numbering in the thousands, has caused significant problems in a city in central Thailand. Many stores and businesses have closed down and moved away. Investors have stopped investing, and the once-bustling city of Lopburi...

Cloned Rhesus Monkey Lives to Adulthood for First Time

A rhesus monkey, cloned for the first time, has made it to adulthood, living for over two years. This, as reported by Nature Communications, is the first successful cloning of its kind. Unlike the method used for Dolly the sheep...

Mystery Behind ‘King Kong’ Extinction Solved

A group of scientists from China, Australia, and the United States has solved the mystery of when and how the largest ape to ever exist, Gigantopithecus blacki, disappeared from Earth. Gigantopithecus blacki, also known as G. blacki, was a massive...

South Korea Bans Centuries-Old Dog Meat Industry

South Korea has recently approved a law aiming to put an end to the dog meat industry by the year 2027. This new law will make it illegal to engage in the business of raising or slaughtering dogs for food,...

World’s 1st Human-Whale Conversation May Help Us Talk to Aliens

New research suggests that talking to humpback whales could help us learn how to communicate with aliens. Scientists from the SETI Institute, University of California Davis, and the Alaska Whale Foundation have been conversing with a humpback whale named...

Scimitar-Horned Oryx Returns to the Wild After 23-Year Extinction

The scimitar-horned oryx, a type of antelope once thought to be extinct in the wild, has seen a positive change in its status. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has downgraded its classification from 'Extinct in the...

Bottlenose Dolphins Become Mammals With “Seventh Sense”

In a recent study, scientists explored how bottlenose dolphins respond to electric fields. They discovered that some dolphins can detect really faint electric fields as weak as 2.4 microvolts per centimeter. This ability is even more remarkable than that...