This adorable animal spends its entire adult life pregnant
A swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolour) considers her life choices.
Pregnancy can sometimes feel like it lasts forever, but for an Australian marsupial called a swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor), pregnancy truly never ends. Researchers recently discovered that...
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A newly identified coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is spreading across the globe. Here's what you need to know about the virus and the disease it causes, called COVID-19. Update on Friday, March 6 (ET): .—WHO director-general calls on...
Gesundheit! Deep-sea sponges caught ‘sneezing’ in time-lapse photos.
Photos taken every hour from June 2013 to April 2014 show the expansion and contraction of the glass sponge Hyalonema, which resembles a blooming tulip.
To the naked eye, deep-sea sponges seem to sit totally...
12 Coronavirus myths busted by science
A Chinese woman holds her protective-mask-wearing dog in Beijing, China, on Feb. 7, 2020 in Beijing, China, amidst the outbreak of the new coronavirus. There is no evidence that dogs can catch this virus,...
Why do so many cats have white ‘socks’ on their paws?
At least white paws make it easier to see richly-colored yarn.
If you see a house cat, the odds are high that it will have white paws, a look that many owners affectionately call "socks."...
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