Animals

The Arizona mountain kingsnake, which is non-venomous but similar to a venomous coral snake, enjoys a survival advantage by deterring potential predators that avoid colorful coral-type snakes. Photo: University of Arizona

The Big Evolutionary Bang of Threat, Camouflage and Courtship Colors in Animals

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Evolution, color signals, animals, courtship, warning, peacock, poisonous frogs, communication between animals, signals in plants, evolutionary biology
A fully disassembled robot. The legs are not meant for running. Illustration: DALEE

Robot, catch me if you can

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The climate crisis is destroying the forests endangering animals that climb trees. Credit: The Science website via DALEE

This is a wake-up call: global warming and deforestation pose a real danger to animals

New study: The combination of global warming and deforestation may lead to the mass extinction of animal species
The famous prehistoric rock paintings of Tsili N'Air, Algeria. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The evolutionary changes following the extinction of the large animals

The need to hunt small animals caused prehistoric man to improve his mental abilities in order to perfect his hunting tools
Bacterial cells before phage infection (left) and after (right). The virus replicates itself inside them and leads to the explosion of the cells and the spilling of their contents (in red - the bacterial DNA spilled from the cell)

Survive with 0% battery: an immune system that drains the cell of energy has been discovered

The new system was discovered in bacteria - but is also used in corals, bees and others
ruined city Illustration: depositphotos.com

If humans become extinct, what will the earth look like a year later?

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What will happen to all our stuff? What will happen to our homes, our schools, our neighborhoods, our cities? Who will feed the dog? Who will cut the grass? Although this is a common theme in movies, shows

The scientist leading the Amazon rescue

A transformation is currently taking place in the Amazon forest, and behind it stands a researcher: Prof. Paulo Artaxo, one of the most important scientists in the world, put together the plan that is currently being implemented in Brazil to rehabilitate and glorify the injured rain forest. on the occasion of his visit
Dr. Tal Kogman, child and youth culture researcher, Tel Aviv University. Public relations photo

Cats don't wear boots

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Who instilled the stigmas that the fox is cunning, the wolf is evil and the donkey is stupid? The answer to this lies in the problematic way in which animals are presented in the culture of children and youth
A single-celled parasite colony feeds inside an animal's cell. From Jumpstory

Things Yorami know: the multicellular conundrum

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Two questions will occupy us in this column, both of which concern the relationship between the whole and its parts. Let's start with Nir's philosophical questioning: in the animal world (fish, reptiles, mammals and birds) we know that all body parts serve the
A female golden jackal in Yarkon Park. Photo: Artemy Voikhansky, Wikipedia.

How do you stop rabies?

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Mina is located in Ashkelon National Park. Photo: Minozig, Wikimedia Commons.

A problem of bird relations

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Anxious Illustration: pixabay.

Reptiles for a better future

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The South American spotted tree frog in a moment of brilliance. Source: Carlos Taboada et al.

Phosphorus frog

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cow. Third wave systems can explain that there is a high probability that it is a cow because it has four legs, a white surface area with black spots, udders and horns. Source: Keith Weller/USDA.

Microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract of Maali Gera change its function in methane production depending on the age of the animal

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Photography: Pauline Guilmot.

Large carnivores are extinct

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Photography: Charlesjsharp, Sharp Photography.

Cheetahs are extinct in captivity

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squid. Photography: Richard.

The DNA secrets of the squid

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The fig beetle, an invasive species of giant beetle (about eight to ten centimeters long!) with huge tentacles, which arrived in wood shipments from the Far East and Africa about seventy years ago. Source: Jvertman / Wikimedia.

The Great Invasion

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Elephants leave in their wake habitats for dozens of other creatures. Photo: Yathin S Krishnappa / Wikimedia.

Elephant tracks are bustling with life

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Photo: Vincent van Zalinge.

How do mammals and birds maintain their body temperature?

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Cod. Communicate using sounds. Photo: August Linnman.

Fish chatter

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A new study examined the effect of global warming on animals. Among other things, it was found that animals from tropical areas have difficulty adapting to the rising temperatures and show a tendency to move away towards temperate areas where the temperature is more comfortable. Photography: Rafael Edwards.

One up to the right

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shoemaker Source: Yusuke Miyahara / flickr.

Organism of the month - the cobbler, the king of the egg

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Six two-month-old puppies eat together from a bowl. Photo: shutterstock

To wag a tail

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Chicks cry for food in the nest. Photo: shutterstock

The animals leave for independence

Pigeons at Dumbar Square in Kathmandu. Photo: shutterstock

A pigeon's brain is enough for a gambling addiction

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A chimpanzee with a sad look. Photo: shutterstock

When animals grieve / Barbara G. King

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A monkey shows how easy it is to perform exercises on the tension, one of the most difficult of the apparatus gymnastics disciplines, as its human cousins ​​compete in this discipline at the London 2012 Games

If only animals participated in the Olympic Games

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brown bear From WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

heat shrink?

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Binimino Perlagrasso - hen and chicks. A 19th century painting by a painter who died in 1902 and is therefore in the public domain. From Wikimedia

The first crocodile-crocodile: the scientist who turned a chicken into a crocodile in the laboratory

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A pair of lesbian albatrosses. Photo: Eric van der Whorf

Two-two of the same species

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Keep an eye on the pigs!

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Warming causes reduction

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Truth or fiction - do animals like to get drunk?

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The human history of domestication of domestic animals

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Wolves prefer fish

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Spanish Parliament: Equal rights for apes and humans

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Astronomical biological clocks

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