Titanokorys gainesi, turned up in the Canadian Rockies, was among the largest known predators 500 million years ago.
Tag Archives: Royal Society Open Science (Journal)
The Birds and the Buoys: Using Googly Eyes to Avert Extinction
A pair of looming eyes could scare away seabirds from fishing nets in which they are often entangled.
Goats Don’t Vote
While some animals that rove in groups appear to cast a form of ballot about directions, goats mostly copy each other.
How an Eight-Sided ‘Egg’ Ended Up in a Robin’s Nest
An experiment by evolutionary biologists offers new insights into birds’ brains.
Millipede Swarms Once Stopped Japanese Trains in Their Tracks
A team of scientists say they have figured out the cicada-like life cycles of the many-legged arthropods.
Cuttlefish Took Something Like a Marshmallow Test. Many Passed.
It turns out that camouflage isn’t the only talent these cephalopods have.
How Musk Ox Make It Through Arctic Nights and Never-Ending Days
Scientists wondered whether animals living above the Arctic Circle had the same circadian rhythms as the rest of us.
Sometimes Food Fights Back
When a species of microalgae gets inside a zooplankton that feeds on it, it smothers the grazer’s eggs and disrupts reproduction.
Mother Sea Turtles Might Be Sneakier Than They Look
The large reptiles make decoy nests to distract predators during an oft-ignored behavior following their egg laying, researchers say.
These Large Carnivorous Lizards Are Right Where They Belong
Monitor lizards, believed to be invasive species on some Pacific islands, got there long before humans, a new study says.
The Ghost Dogs of the Amazon Get a Bit Less Mysterious
Scientists have produced data that shows the range of an enigmatic short-eared canid species that has yet to be widely studied.
How the World’s Squarest Fish Gets Around
The yellow boxfish is much more agile than it looks.