Joe Petviashvili

“Killing of members of the same species, including deliberate killing during contests for domi­nan­ce, killing of territorial rivals and invading males, infanti­cide and even cannibalism are commonplace. This has been shown in many diffe­rent groups of animals.”

“Our findings suggest that New Caledonian crows can solve complex physical problems by reasoning both causally and analogically about causal relations.”

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“It may turn out that secretions from bacteria affect not only long-term health, but hour-by-hour moods”

"They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "Meat. They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way more...

“Birds do it, bees do it, and so, apparently, do . . . cows? No, it's not that. We're talking about sensing the Earth's magnetic field.”

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“If Kominis is correct, this is extraordinary news: it means a quantum sensor determines the macroscopic behaviour of magnetic sensitive birds.”

30 scientists and researchers from a half dozen or more different fields who gathered in rural France in 1990 to check each others' work must have felt something of that same horror when they found that they could not disprove more...

This six-gill shark (Hexanchus) was filmed during a submersible dive off the northeast coast of Molokai at a depth of 1000m (3280ft).

“we have found a possible biochemical scar, present within living animals, that links Earth's greatest mass extinction to a single substance: hydrogen sulfide (H2S).”

Giant Japanese hornets slaughter European honeybee hive.