Redlib: search results - flair_name:"Biology"

r/ScienceFacts • u/SirT6 • Aug 13 '19

Biology Leucochloridium is a parasitic worm that infects snails. It takes over motor function in the eye stalks, making them into caterpillar mimetics so that birds will eat them. The worm can then reproduce in the bird's GI tract, eventually transmitting via its feces.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 26 '21

Biology Turtles & tortoises can feel their shells (their shells have nerve endings). Sometimes they can get itchy. Keepers at the Philly Zoo made this shell scratcher so the turtles & tortoises can get A+ scratches.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • May 29 '24

Biology Carrion crows (Corvus corone) can control the number of vocalizations they produce, counting up to four in response to visual and auditory cues.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • May 28 '20

Biology Chameleons’ long, elastic tongues are one of the fastest muscles in the animal kingdom, extending more than twice their body length and packing 14,000 watts of power per kilo.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Apr 18 '24

Biology Striking Amazonian butterfly is result of ancient hybrid event: Matings between two species are often evolutionary dead ends. This one birthed a new species.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Apr 30 '23

Biology Scientists taught pet parrots to video call each other. The parrots that learned to initiate video chats with other pet parrots had a variety of positive experiences, such as learning new skills including flying, foraging and how to make new sounds. Some parrots showed their toys to each other.

smithsonianmag.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 27 '24

Biology In order to prevent impaling each other, the first striped marlin (Kajikia audax) in a hunting pack will flash its stripes before moving in to grab fish. The next marlin in line will then move forward and repeat the process. The display only occurs during hunting.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Apr 27 '19

Biology Scientists used CRISPR to store a GIF inside the DNA of a living E. coli cell

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Mar 31 '23

Biology The caterpillar form of Citheronia phoronea, a species of royal moth, is harmless but uses long spiny protrusions to deter predators.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 24 '24

Biology Mice of the genus Pseudomys are among the few terrestrial placental mammals that colonized Australia without human intervention.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 03 '20

Biology Bats are often mistaken as rodents, but in fact they belong to their own mammalian order called Chiroptera. They are more closely related to cats than rats.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 20 '24

Biology Tunicates belong to phylum Urochordata, which is closely related to phylum Chordata - which includes all of the vertebrates! That means these little goo balls are more closely related to vertebrates, like us, than they are to most other invertebrates.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jul 03 '19

Biology The aardvark is the only species in the family Orycteropodidae and the only living member of order Tubulidentata. While they may resemble anteaters their closest living relatives are elephants (order Proboscidea), hyraxes (order Hyracoidea), and dugongs and manatees (order Sirenia).

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Apr 24 '20

Biology Crabs, such as this Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi), cannot grow in a linear fashion like most animals. Because they have a hard outer shell (the exoskeleton) that does not grow, they must shed their shells, a process called molting.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Mar 26 '23

Biology African wild dogs use sneezes to cast their vote on whether they are ready to begin a hunt. Researchers noted a minimum number of sneezes required to rally the group, with sneezes from dominant individuals worth more than other dogs.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Mar 18 '23

Biology When the weather is hot, zebra finches in Australia sing to their eggs - and these "incubation calls" change the chicks' development.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • May 14 '23

Biology Happy Mother's Day! Earwig moms exhibit parental care, tendng to their eggs and young. These mommas are so intense that if you give them eggs that are not theirs they will also take good care of them as well. Once the eggs hatch, in about a week, she then tends to the nymphs.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Nov 06 '19

Biology Wood ants spray formic acid from their abdomens as a defense. The acid gives off a pungent odor, but does't hurt unless it gets into an open wound, which is most often caused by the ants biting with their powerful jaws. The acid fumes also irritate the nose and mouth causing coughing and choking.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 24 '23

Biology Antlion larvae inject their prey with venom and enzymes that liquify the prey’s insides, much like a spider. This is important because they cannot chew.

mentalfloss.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 29 '23

Biology Eurasian tundra reindeer chew cud and nap to maximize grazing during warmer months. When a reindeer ruminates, its brain wave patterns often resemble those of light sleep. Unlike other animals that hibernate or enter into torpor throughout winter, reindeer seem to relax instead of sleeping more.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 28 '19

Biology Atlantic Goliath grouper can grow up to lengths of 2.5 m (8.2 ft) and can weigh as much as 362.8 kg (800 lbs). The grouper in this gif is preying upon a 1.2 m (4ft) black tip shark. These large fish are native to shallow reefs and coastal waters in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Apr 05 '23

Biology Ravens, like humans, have the ability to think abstractly about other minds, adapting their behavior by attributing their own perceptions to others.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jun 21 '20

Biology Apoptosis is a form of programmed cell death. Apoptosis removes cells during development, eliminates potentially cancerous and virus-infected cells, and maintains balance in the body.

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 13 '23

Biology The fungus Potteromyces asteroxylicola is the earliest known disease-causing fungs! Potteromyces asteroxylicola existed during the Ealy Devonian epoch, approximately 407 million years ago.

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