Slashdot Items Tagged "animals"

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Friday January 12, 2024 @01:11AM Scientists Scramble To Keep Dog Aging Project Alive
Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:13PM Scientists Solve the Mystery of How Jellyfish Can Regenerate a Tentacle In Days
Monday April 24, 2023 @06:12PM Moths Are More Efficient Pollinators Than Bees, Shows New Research
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:02AM How Emotional Support Animals Can help in Improving Mental Health
Monday January 09, 2023 @01:06PM 10 of the heaviest animals in the world according to research
Saturday October 01, 2022 @05:36PM In a First, US Appoints a Diplomat For Plants and Animals
Wednesday March 09, 2022 @07:41PM Bringing Back Extinct Creatures May Be Impossible
Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:20PM Frogs Without Legs Regrow Leglike Limbs In New Experiment
Friday January 14, 2022 @07:11PM The Kunga Is the Oldest Known Hybrid Bred By Humans
Friday November 19, 2021 @06:01PM DogPhone Lets Pets Ring Their Owners
Wednesday September 29, 2021 @08:22PM US Officials Report More Than 20 Extinctions
Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:43PM 'Jumping Gene' May Have Erased Tails In Humans and Other Apes
Friday August 20, 2021 @08:48PM Cuttlefish Remember the What, When, and Where of Meals -- Even Into Old Age
Friday June 04, 2021 @04:50PM After Years of Detecting Land Mines, A Heroic Rat Is Hanging Up His Sniffer
Wednesday March 03, 2021 @06:28PM Cephalopod Passes Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children
Tuesday September 15, 2020 @12:27AM Gene Editing To Produce 'Super Dad' Livestock
Monday September 14, 2020 @05:29PM America Is Facing a Monkey Shortage
Monday September 14, 2020 @05:24PM Sir David Attenborough Delivers Stark Warning In BBC Doc 'Extinction: the Facts'
Friday September 11, 2020 @04:58PM Wildlife In 'Catastrophic Decline' Due To Human Destruction, Scientists Warn
Thursday July 09, 2020 @05:21PM Giant Clams Manipulate Light To Assist Their Symbiotic Partner
Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:33PM Why Glass Frogs Have See-Through Skin Becomes Clear In Study
Monday April 27, 2020 @06:32PM Giant Squid Filmed At Japanese Marina
Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:11PM MRI Scans Delve Into Dog-Like Complexity of Squid Brains
Thursday January 09, 2020 @06:56PM Scientists Give Cuttlefish 3D Glasses To Prove They Perceive Depth
Thursday December 12, 2019 @07:22PM Crows Could Be the Smartest Animal Other Than Primates
Friday October 25, 2019 @06:03PM Why Ants Are Practically Immune To Traffic Jams
Wednesday October 09, 2019 @01:05AM Cows Painted Like Zebras Attract Fewer Flies
Friday August 16, 2019 @06:08PM A New Species of Leech Is Discovered Near Washington, D.C.
Friday August 09, 2019 @08:57PM The World's Smartest Chimp Has Died
Friday May 10, 2019 @08:05PM Cats Rival Dogs In Many Tests of 'Social Intelligence'
Thursday April 04, 2019 @05:44PM Cats Can Recognize Their Own Names, Study Suggests
Sunday February 24, 2019 @12:44PM Drug Pollution In Rivers Reaching Damaging Levels For Animals and Ecosystems, Scientists Warn
Sunday February 10, 2019 @05:49PM New Long-Spined Dinosaur With 'Mohawk of Large Spikes' Discovered In Patagonia
Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:48AM Plants and Animals Sometimes Take Genes From Bacteria, Study Suggests
Thursday January 17, 2019 @08:58PM Bioacoustic Devices Could Help Save Rainforests
Sunday January 13, 2019 @12:46AM Plants Can Hear Animals Using Their Flowers
Thursday December 13, 2018 @11:12PM Supernovae May Explain Mass Extinctions of Marine Animals During Pliocene Era
Friday December 07, 2018 @08:46PM 'Great Dying': Rapid Warming Caused Largest Extinction Event Ever, Report Says
Friday November 30, 2018 @10:07PM Australian Fence of Sound Halves Roadkill On One Deadly Stretch of Road
Friday November 02, 2018 @06:53PM Researchers Launch Plan To Sequence 66,000 Species In the UK
Thursday October 11, 2018 @07:17PM Bees Stop Flying During Total Solar Eclipses
Thursday September 20, 2018 @06:02PM What Ecstasy Does To Octopuses
Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:15PM Plan To Build a Genetic Noah's Ark Includes a Staggering 66,000 Species
Monday August 20, 2018 @06:32PM Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere
Wednesday August 08, 2018 @06:22PM US Invaded By Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating
Sunday June 17, 2018 @03:02AM Dutch Town Uses High-Tech Streetlights To Keep Their Bats Happy
Monday April 23, 2018 @07:15PM Cow Could Soon Be Largest Land Mammal Left Due To Human Activity, Says Study
Saturday April 07, 2018 @07:49PM Scientists Discover That Puffin Beaks Are Fluorescent
Thursday March 22, 2018 @07:33PM World's Largest Animal Study On Cell Tower Radiation Confirms Cancer Link
Monday February 19, 2018 @01:44AM Scientists Grow Sheep Embryos Containing Human Cells
Friday February 16, 2018 @07:44PM Coffee Beans Are Good For Birds, Fancy Brew Or Not
Monday January 29, 2018 @06:57PM World's Second Largest Meat Processor Invests In Lab-Grown Meat Startup
Wednesday November 29, 2017 @08:20PM Study Finds Dogs Are Brainier Than Cats
Friday November 03, 2017 @06:43PM Laika, the Pioneering Space Dog, Was Launched 60 Years Ago Today
Wednesday November 01, 2017 @07:06PM The Asteroid That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Plunged Earth Into Catastrophic Winter
Tuesday October 24, 2017 @05:00PM Sony Reportedly Announcing New Robot Dog Next Month
Monday October 16, 2017 @05:56PM Google Photos Now Recognizes Your Pets
Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:09PM Climate Change Could Wipe Out a Third of Parasite Species, Study Finds
Wednesday August 23, 2017 @05:34PM Bill Gates and Richard Branson Back Startup That Grows 'Clean Meat'
Thursday August 03, 2017 @07:14PM Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study
Wednesday July 12, 2017 @05:28PM Era of 'Biological Annihilation' Is Underway, Scientists Warn
Monday July 03, 2017 @04:04PM PBS Bets $3 Million That Monkeys Are Better CS Preschool Teachers Than Rabbits
Wednesday June 28, 2017 @10:44PM Research Finds 1 In 3 American Cats and Dogs Are Overweight
Monday June 19, 2017 @07:14PM Cats May Have Been Domesticated Twice
Tuesday May 02, 2017 @08:01PM CRISPR Eliminates HIV In Live Animals
Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:53PM Researchers Discover New Species of Giant Spider
Monday April 17, 2017 @06:04PM Dingo Wins The World's Most Interesting Genome Competition
Friday April 07, 2017 @05:39PM Wolves May Be 'Re-Domesticating' Into Dogs
Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:13PM Most People Would Give Lab-Grown Meat a Try, New Survey Reveals
Monday March 06, 2017 @07:06PM Poachers Are Trying To Hack Animal Tracking Systems
Friday February 24, 2017 @10:06PM Scientists Teach Bees How To Play Soccer
Friday February 17, 2017 @11:27PM Genetically-Modified 'Surrogate Hens' Could Lay Eggs of Rare Chicken Breeds, Scientists Say
Thursday February 16, 2017 @09:38PM Woolly Mammoth On Verge of Resurrection, Scientists Reveal
Thursday February 16, 2017 @05:46PM Scientists Use Stem Cells To Grow Animal-Free Pork In a Lab
Thursday February 09, 2017 @09:36AM This Blog Is Republishing All the Animal Welfare Records the USDA Deleted
Monday January 30, 2017 @08:01PM Scientists Find 'Oldest Human Ancestor' -- A Big-Mouthed Sea Creature With No Anus
Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:29PM Scientists Create 3D Bioprinter Capable of Printing Living Human Skin
Friday January 20, 2017 @07:46PM The Mind-Reading Gadget For Dogs That Got Funded, But Didn't Get Built
Wednesday January 18, 2017 @08:21PM Female Shark Learns To Reproduce Without Males After Years Alone
Friday December 30, 2016 @05:26PM China Says It Will Shut Down Ivory Trade By End of 2017
Tuesday December 27, 2016 @08:59AM Cheetahs Heading Towards Extinction as Population Crashes
Friday December 16, 2016 @05:37PM Researchers Find Roads Shatter the Earth's Surface Into 600,000 Fragments
Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:28PM Brain Implants Allow Paralyzed Monkeys To Walk
Thursday September 22, 2016 @12:58AM Scientists Discover That Horses Can Use Symbols To Talk To Us
Friday September 16, 2016 @07:45PM How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats
Wednesday September 14, 2016 @10:50PM The Sixth Mass Extinction Will Hit The Biggest Animals The Hardest, Says Stanford Study
Tuesday May 24, 2016 @04:11PM American Scientists Working On Creating Chimeras: Half-Human, Half-Animal Embryos
Monday May 16, 2016 @06:11PM Highly-Conductive Shark Jelly Could Inspire New Tech
Friday April 29, 2016 @09:53PM Bison To Become First National Mammal Of The US
Tuesday April 05, 2016 @12:17PM Scientists To Open Mass-Cloning Factory in China This Year To Clone Cows, Pets, Humans
Tuesday March 29, 2016 @06:54PM Internet of Seals: Vodafone Connects Marine Mammals To IoT
Friday March 18, 2016 @07:12PM Neural Mechanisms In Mouse Brains Indicate We Actively Forget As We Learn
Monday February 22, 2016 @10:20AM Fungi From Guts Of Herbivores Could Help Us Make Biofuel
Friday February 19, 2016 @07:11PM Study: Mice Gain Weight In Cold Temperatures Due To Gut Changes
Wednesday February 17, 2016 @02:27PM 3D-Printed Ear Comes To Life After Implantation In Mice
Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:28PM Study Finds You Can Grow Brain Cells Through Exercise
Monday February 08, 2016 @08:18PM Wolves Howl In Different 'Dialects,' Machine Learning Finds
Monday February 01, 2016 @03:19PM Dutch Police Train Bald Eagles To Take Out Drones
Sunday January 31, 2016 @09:06PM Israeli Vulture Suspected of Spying Returned
Thursday January 07, 2016 @11:24AM Dog With 3D-Printed Legs Gets an Upgrade
Sunday December 13, 2015 @04:05PM Asteroid Impact Helped Create the Birds We Know Today
Thursday December 10, 2015 @05:09PM Disease-Resistant Pigs Latest Win For Gene Editing Technology
Thursday December 10, 2015 @11:03AM Japan Defends Scientific Value of New Plan To Kill 333 Minke Whales
Thursday November 19, 2015 @12:16PM Animal Rights Group Targets NIH Director's Home
Friday November 06, 2015 @07:29PM 3D Printed Objects Found Toxic To Fish Embryos
Thursday October 15, 2015 @03:54PM The Life-Saving Gifts of the World's Most Venomous Animal
Thursday October 15, 2015 @08:56AM Chinese Company To Sell Genetically Modified Micro Pigs as Pets
Thursday October 08, 2015 @12:16PM Endocannabinoids Contribute To Runner's High
Tuesday October 06, 2015 @09:00AM DNA Vaccine Sterilizes Mice, Could Lead To One-Shot Birth Control For Cats, Dogs
Tuesday October 06, 2015 @08:59AM Study Finds Humans Are Worse Than Radiation For Chernobyl Animals
Thursday September 24, 2015 @12:53PM An AI Hunts the Wild Animals Carrying Ebola
Thursday September 10, 2015 @04:03PM UK Researchers Developing Influenza-Resistant Birds
Thursday September 10, 2015 @09:36AM EU Parliament Votes To Ban Cloning of Farm Animals
Thursday August 20, 2015 @08:37AM Georgia Aquarium Battles Federal Government Over Belugas
Friday August 14, 2015 @07:22PM Octopus Genome Sequenced
Sunday August 02, 2015 @11:14PM Researchers Find That Queen Bees Vaccinate Their Offspring
Thursday July 30, 2015 @04:34PM NY Judge Rules Research Chimps Are Not 'Legal Persons'
Thursday July 09, 2015 @05:18PM An Organic Computer Using Four Wired-Together Rat Brains
Sunday June 21, 2015 @10:08PM 3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros
Friday June 19, 2015 @06:41PM Triggering a Mouse's Happy Memories With Lasers Gives It the Will To Struggle On
Thursday June 18, 2015 @05:05PM Big-Data Animal Tracking As an Eye On Life and Planet
Tuesday May 26, 2015 @08:18AM Bats' White-Nose Syndrome May Be Cured
Tuesday May 19, 2015 @08:04AM Forecasting the Next Pandemic
Sunday May 03, 2015 @04:42PM Empty Landscape Looms, If Large Herbivores Continue to Die Out
Tuesday April 21, 2015 @05:40PM Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet
Tuesday March 31, 2015 @11:00AM Cetaceans Able To Focus Sound For Echolocation
Saturday March 21, 2015 @03:47PM New Alzheimer's Treatment Fully Restores Memory Function For Mice
Wednesday March 11, 2015 @10:40AM Scientists Insert a Synthetic Memory Into the Brain of a Sleeping Mouse
Sunday February 22, 2015 @12:14AM Humans' Big Brains Linked To a Small Stretch of DNA
Thursday February 19, 2015 @01:43PM Human DNA Enlarges Mouse Brains
Tuesday February 17, 2015 @09:36AM New Map Shows USA's Quietest Places
Sunday February 08, 2015 @06:28PM Photosynthesizing Sea Slugs Steal Genes From Algae
Sunday January 25, 2015 @01:36PM Fish Found Living Half a Mile Under Antarctic Ice
Thursday January 22, 2015 @09:26AM Microbots Deliver Medical Payload In Living Creature For the First Time
Friday January 09, 2015 @09:40AM New Implant Lets Paralyzed Rats Walk Again
Saturday December 20, 2014 @12:33AM How a 3D Printer Let a Dog Run For the First Time
Thursday December 18, 2014 @02:17AM Researchers Accidentally Discover How To Turn Off Skin Aging Gene
Thursday December 04, 2014 @04:37PM New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails
Thursday November 20, 2014 @06:51PM Scientists Optimistic About Getting a Mammoth Genome Complete Enough To Clone
Saturday November 15, 2014 @11:20PM How To Anesthetize an Octopus
Thursday October 16, 2014 @06:30PM Scientists Find Rats Aren't Smarter Than Mice, and That's Important
Monday October 13, 2014 @05:24PM Oxytocin Regulates Sociosexual Behavior In Female Mice
Sunday October 12, 2014 @09:57PM PETA is not happy that Google used a camel to get a desert "StreetView"
Thursday October 02, 2014 @12:21AM 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska
Wednesday October 01, 2014 @10:17AM China Worried About Terrorist Pigeons
Sunday August 31, 2014 @06:14PM The Passenger Pigeon: A Century of Extinction
Friday August 29, 2014 @07:29PM Anti-Ebola Drug ZMapp Makes Clean Sweep: 18 of 18 Monkeys Survive Infection
Thursday August 21, 2014 @07:26AM Study: Seals Infected Early Americans With Tuberculosis
Monday August 11, 2014 @11:45AM Connected Collar Lets Your Cat Do the War-Driving
Saturday August 09, 2014 @04:57PM Experimental Drug Compound Found To Reverse Effects of Alzheimer's In Mice
Saturday August 09, 2014 @10:33AM Wyoming's Natural Trap Cave Yields Huge Trove of Animal Remains
Monday July 28, 2014 @03:36AM How Bird Flocks Resemble Liquid Helium
Tuesday July 22, 2014 @12:23PM Gene Therapy Converts Heart Cells Into "Biological Pacemakers"
Saturday July 12, 2014 @06:22PM Chimpanzee Intelligence Largely Determined By Genetics
Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:22AM Study: Whales Are Ecosystem "Engineers"
Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:09AM Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory
Tuesday July 08, 2014 @08:03AM Ancient Bird With Largest Wingspan Yet Discovered
Thursday June 19, 2014 @08:15AM Century-Old Drug Reverses Signs of Autism In Mice
Monday June 16, 2014 @08:14PM Humans Not Solely To Blame For Passenger Pigeon Extinction
Monday June 09, 2014 @10:41PM Study: Rats Regret Making the Wrong Decision
Thursday May 29, 2014 @10:21AM The Earliest Bird To Sip a Flower
Sunday May 25, 2014 @11:30AM Should We Eat Invasive Species?
Wednesday May 21, 2014 @10:57AM Even In the Wild Mice Run In Wheels
Thursday May 15, 2014 @08:48AM Orca Identified As 103 Years Old
Thursday May 08, 2014 @11:21AM Electromagnetic Noise Found To Affect Bird Navigation
Tuesday May 06, 2014 @11:05AM Elderly Mice Perk Up With Transfused Blood
Sunday April 20, 2014 @10:52AM Closing Surgical Incisions With a Paintbrush and Nanoparticles
Friday April 11, 2014 @09:45PM CSIRO Scientists' Aquaculture Holy Grail: Fish-Free Prawn Food
Tuesday April 08, 2014 @11:15AM For the First Time, Organ Regenerated Inside a Living Animal
Thursday March 13, 2014 @11:05AM Power Cables' UV Flashes Apparently Frighten Animals
Sunday March 09, 2014 @11:51PM Ice Age Fossils Found During Los Angeles Subway Exploration
Wednesday March 05, 2014 @07:54PM Deadly Avian Flu Strain Penetrates Biosecurity Defenses In Seoul
Monday March 03, 2014 @11:03AM First Look At the Animals of the New Hebrides Trench
Thursday February 27, 2014 @09:11AM Find Along Chilean Highway Suggests Ancient Mass Stranding of Whales
Friday February 21, 2014 @09:50PM VA Tech Experiment: Polar Vortex May Decimate D.C. Stinkbugs In 2014
Thursday February 13, 2014 @09:24AM Iconic Predator-Prey Study In Peril
Thursday January 30, 2014 @02:13PM Flying Snake Mysteries Revealed
Thursday January 02, 2014 @06:47PM Dogs Defecate In Alignment With Earth's Magnetic Field
Thursday January 02, 2014 @08:57AM Illinois Law Grounds PETA Drones Meant To Harass Hunters
Tuesday December 17, 2013 @09:43AM First Hard Evidence for the Process of Cat Domestication
Thursday December 12, 2013 @10:02AM Chimpanzee "Personhood" Lawsuits Fail In New York Courts
Tuesday December 10, 2013 @09:10AM Neural Prosthetic Acts Like "Bridge" Over Damaged Brain Areas
Tuesday December 10, 2013 @08:41AM US Issues 30-Year Eagle-Killing Permits To Wind Industry
Friday December 06, 2013 @07:36PM Gut Microbes Linked to Autism-Like Symptoms in Mice
Friday December 06, 2013 @07:08PM First Images of a Heart Injected With Liquid Metal
Sunday November 17, 2013 @11:10AM Robots: a Working Breed At the Dairy
Tuesday October 22, 2013 @12:22PM Cow Burps Tapped For Fuel
Tuesday October 01, 2013 @08:05AM Dutch Police Recruit Rats To Sniff Out Crime
Friday September 27, 2013 @06:13PM 'Zombie' Hormone Disruptors Rise From the Dead
Sunday September 22, 2013 @06:09PM New Species of Legless Lizard Discovered Near LAX Runway
Saturday September 21, 2013 @09:50AM PCBs Cause Birds To Sing a Different Tune
Saturday September 07, 2013 @03:05PM Using Raspberry Pi and iOS App To Catch Rhino Poachers
Tuesday September 03, 2013 @08:28AM Wise Old Birds Teach Migration Route To Young Whooping Cranes
Sunday August 11, 2013 @10:11PM Dogs Trained To Sniff Out Ovarian Cancer
Tuesday August 06, 2013 @09:04AM Give Zebrafish Some Booze and They Stop Fearing Robots
Tuesday July 02, 2013 @12:09PM Mouse Cloned From Drop of Blood
Thursday June 20, 2013 @11:53AM Battery Materials Made Using Crab Shells
Sunday June 16, 2013 @10:18AM Proposed Rule Would Drastically Restrict Chimp Research
Friday May 31, 2013 @07:55PM Badgers Block British Broadband Buildout
Sunday May 19, 2013 @07:07PM Military Dolphins Discover 1800s Torpedo